NYC Carriage Horses – from the Frying Pan into the Fire?
Good news: The carriage horses of New York City may soon all be retired. New York’s top two mayoral candidates, Democrat Bill de Blasio and Republican…
Good news: The carriage horses of New York City may soon all be retired. New York’s top two mayoral candidates, Democrat Bill de Blasio and Republican…
“I was floored,” the doctor said when he looked at the sample under a microscope. “I was astounded.”
These latest great photos were taken by graduate student Rebecca Cliffe, who used them to raise funds to help reintroduce orphan sloths into the wild in…
It’s a dark tale of rape, incest, torture and cover-up: A female elephant artificially inseminated at least 112 times; a male elephant forced to breed with…
If you tune in at the right time, you might catch up to 25 California condors in front of this new live-streaming camera. [readon] It’s the…
For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about “The end of antibiotics? (question mark)” Well, now I would…
Why would Ben, a 4-year-old mutt who’d found the perfect forever home, run away and go all the way back to the shelter? The answer: He…
If you haven’t seen Blackfish yet, be sure to watch it on CNN tomorrow evening. The movie by Gabriella Cowperthwaite uncovers much of what SeaWorld has…
When 100 people, mostly women from various rescue groups, rescued 178 beagles from a research lab in Brazil last week, nobody called them terrorists. The five…
Good news if you live in North Carolina: Thanks to cats, especially kittens, you are almost zombie-free. A study by the Wake County SPCA and the…
Two trucks, three elephants, and a convoy of veterinarians, caregivers, police and other appropriate officials. After three years of petitions, arguments, agreements, disagreements, votes, flight plans,…
Can you truly be “pro-life” if you patronize the factory farms? And, the other way round, can you truly call yourself an animal rights supporter…
If you’re panicking over the continuing zombie invasions that threaten to wipe out humankind, take heart. Nature may have a solution.
Walt Disney imagined the Abominable Snowman as a red-eyed monster when he conceived the Matterhorn Ride in 1959. But for hundreds of years before that, imaginations…
Her patience, it seems, finally ran out. Maybe it’s because elephants never forget. And Patience had a lot of bad things to remember – dating back…
More about Gregory Berns’ article “Dogs Are People, Too“, which I wrote about earlier this week. Berns has been getting quite a lot of pushback from…
Don’t try this at home – or on your next trip to Africa. But zoologist Kevin Richardson has a new video promoting his work with lions.
It seems obvious to most of us that dogs (and other animals) share the same kinds of emotions as we humans. But how do we really…
Foggy and Grommet are well known to whale-watching boats off the coast of Nova Scotia. The two humpback whales are rarely seen apart from each other.…