Sea Shepherd Rammed by Japanese Whalers
Early today, deep in Antarctic waters, a huge Japanese whaling ship rammed two Sea Shepherd boats that were attempting to block its access to a refueling…
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Ringling Caves!
The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in the use of…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
Keyboard Cat’s Earlier Incarnation?
Long before cats invented the Internet and walking on keyboards, they had to make do with books. Emir O. Filipovic tweets this photo of a kitty…
Muslim Couple Care for ‘Impure’ Dogs
In Malaysia, as in most of the Muslim world, dogs are considered impure. So, too, then, are people who rescue them and look after them. But…
Pat Derby, Rest with the Elephants
She began as an animal trainer in Hollywood, but went on to campaign for their freedom from zoos and circuses and to establish one of the…
After 22 Years in a Laboratory, Will Camillo Be Retired?
This is the most you’re going to see of Camillo the chimpanzee – at least for the moment. When the San Antonio Express-News asked the Texas…
Zoo Ransoms Lily the Elephant
The Oregon Zoo has agreed to pay $400,000 to an elephant trafficking company in order to keep baby elephant Lily at the zoo.
Chimpanzees Check Out the Snow
A delightful video from the Gut Aiderbichl sanctuary for traumatized chimpanzees and other primates in Austria. We first met these guys, who came from laboratories where…
Mice Prove Useless in Testing Killer Diseases
A 10-year study has concluded that billions of dollars of research have gone down the drain in experiments on mice that proved completely useless when applied…
More Valentine Love
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Happy Valentine’s. Your Bucket of Love
Lucy Cooke, explorer and writer for National Geographic, pays another visit to the Aviarios del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica. [readon] Sloths are one of…
How to Save the Planet
This infographic shows how a simple change in what we eat can make an enormous difference to the warming of the planet and to how we’re…
The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Horse
The proverbial old lady who swallowed a horse and was “dead of course” is apparently no longer just a nursery rhyme character. Millions of people in…
Top Ten Signs You Got a Bad Judge at Westminster
10: He keeps saying, “There’s hardly any meat on this one.”
9: Points at the favorite in the “working dogs” category and says, “You’re fired!”
Hanging Out with Baby Bats
A typical day at the Australian Bat Clinic and Wildlife Trauma Center includes feeding, health checks, laundry, rescue expeditions and getting the baby bats ready to…
Animals on Runway Wearing Human Skins
Just in time for Fashion Week, the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather has created a video that turns the tables on your typical fashion show. Instead…
Elephants Prefer National Parks
It’s like living in a gated community – even though there are no gates. You just feel better protected. Elephants in Africa are choosing, more and more, to stay within the boundaries of the Serengeti National Park, which suggests that they understand that the park area is freer of humans and that there’s likely to be less hunting within the park boundaries.
PETA’s Kill Stats–2012
According to their report to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA took 1,958 animals into their care at their “shelter” last year, and…
Bird Flu Back in Labs
Scientists have picked up the work they were doing last year creating deadly bird flu viruses in laboratories in the United States and Denmark.
The purpose of the research, they argue, is to find ways to protect us from the increasingly deadly new pathogens. But we already know how to protect ourselves from bird flu: Do something abut the terrible conditions at factory farms where these diseases are incubated.
Tiger Kills Trainer at Circus
Tiger handler Alexander Crispin was strutting around the two Bengal tigers on the stage of the Circo Suarez in Sonora, Mexico when one of the big…
First Contact – A Black Tie Event
It was first contact – and love at first sight – when three humans on an Antarctic expedition met up with 9,000 emperor penguins on Princess…