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…
It started out as the same hike that Andi Davis does every day to the top of one of the mountains near where she lives in Phoenix, Arizona. But this time, close to the top,…
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 security officers…
A group of Brazilian researchers wondered if the presence of a pet in the home of a child with epilepsy might reduce their risk of dying from SUDEP. They found that of the 1,092…
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The Yeti Bear
The whale had probably been dragging this fishing gear around for months. Now he was weakened to the point where he could barely move or lift his tail. Thick rope was wrapped around his body – so tightly that it was clear that he had become entangled when he was younger and smaller, and, over the months, had grown deeply into the ever-tighter synthetic material.
Lucy the elephant at the Edmonton Zoo. The mayor of Edmonton is unhappy. He doesn’t like the fact that the Toronto city council has voted to…
The Michigan Daily reports on the “adjustment process” for a student at the U. of Michigan who is learning how to experiment on live animals. [readon]…
A rhesus monkey, named Petra, kept in a botched brain study with screws and a piece of acrylic waste buried in her head. Mice having their toes cut off without a drop of anesthesia. Others dying of thirst. Birds cut open without anesthesia. All of this, and much more, at the University of California at San Francisco, which experimented its way through 800,000 animals last year.
Claudia Flisi visited the Elephant Orphanage Sanctuary in Malaysia, which is helping to save Asian elephants from extinction. In order to remain open, the sanctuary encourages visitors and offers elephant rides. But this is no commercial zoo; its mission is to protect elephants who have been in captivity or who need to be relocated from forests where they are in increasing danger.
Bobby Roberts, owner of the Bobby Roberts Super Circus in the U.K., has been found guilty of causing suffering to the elephant Annie. But the judge…
Humans, we’ve been learning, sometimes have difficulty remembering their vows, especially when one of them is on a tour of duty. But penguins are naturally faithful to each other. And one particular pair of Magellanic penguins turns out to be among the most faithful of couples.
And you thought that the words “No animals were harmed during the making of this movie” actually meant something. (It depends on what you mean by the word “making.”)
Beautiful, affectionate, intelligent, emotional, caring animals at the Eden Farm Animal Sanctuary. [readon] Runs about 20 minutes, but you can watch as much as you like.
It has something of the feel of Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001 with the passengers on their ultra-pasteurized vessel and the Blue Danube Waltz playing in the…
If you’re eating a turkey from Butterball, the world’s largest such factory farm, chances are you’re eating a severely abused bird – beaten, kicked, thrown at…
The show was “Jeopardy.” The day was last Friday. The category was “Remember Bookstores?” The answer was: “A common sight in small bookstores is an in-house…
With animal protection groups raising holy hell over Green Mountain College’s (GMC) plan to kill their two old working oxen and serve them up in the…
Well, only in the movies, perhaps. But here’s a real-life carnivorous sponge who lives two miles down in Monterey Bay, captures crustaceans with her barbed hooks,…
Global warming is causing aquatic animals to shrink – up to 10 times more than land-dwellers. That’s the conclusion of a major study of animals from…
This particular Figaro is not a barber; he’s a cockatoo. But he’s certainly as talented as his operatic namesake – and not just for his singing…
The Israeli government is considering pleas from wildlife groups in Israel and Palestine to do something that will give local wildlife a way through the separation barrier between the two countries that’s now approaching it’s tenth anniversary.
The impassable barrier, part wall, part series of barbed wire fences, that stretches for 490 miles, was designed to keep Palestinians out of Israel. But like so many other separation barriers that nations have erected against each other over the centuries, it’s devastating to the other animals for whom these boundaries are meaningless.
Albert Camus (previous post) might have appreciated Henri the Cat’s take on the celebration of Halloween and the Holiday season: [readon]
One group of victims who could not escape the flooding of New York City this week were the more than 10,000 mice and rats in the…