The Dead Kitty Copter
This takes Monty Python’s dead parrot sketch to a whole other level. And the responses are mixed: from “cute” to “hilarious” to “utterly tasteless” to “completely grotesque and definitely not funny.”
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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…
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Mother Carries Shot Pit Bull to Safety
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,…
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Liberators or Terrorists?
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…
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Do Pets Prevent Sudden Death in Children with Epilepsy?
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…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
Farewell to Oliver the ‘Humanzee’
Oliver was captured in Africa as a two-year-old in the 1960s and sold to animal trainers in the U.S. For the next few years he was exploited for the fact that he had a flatter face than most chimpanzees and tended to walk upright like a human. Perhaps, his owners suggested, he was a hybrid or a “missing link.”
Do Dogs Feel Guilt?
After a stressful day at work, you come home, only to discover that Rover has raided the trash and left a disaster all over the kitchen…
Judge Rules SeaWorld Committed ‘Serious’ Violation in Death of Trainer
Tilikum in isolation after killing his trainer SeaWorld claims it can stop its enraged, depressed, captive orcas from killing their trainers by slapping the water to…
Bob Barker Does It Again
Just three weeks after he completed a half-million-dollar donation to Chimp Haven, a Louisiana sanctuary for former laboratory chimpanzees, Bob Barker has sent $250,000 to Save the Chimps, a sanctuary in Florida.
All Dressed Up for Their Last Foie Gras Spree
There’s something quite chilling about this series of photos, taken by Marcio Jose Sanchez at the Sent Sovi restaurant in Saratoga, California. The diners were gathered…
Chimps, Orangutans Have Human-Like Personalities
Do chimpanzees, orangutans and other nonhuman great apes have distinct personalities like us? It’s been a longstanding debate within the scientific community, and those who seek to exploit these animals have long argued that “personality” is a distinctly human attribute, not shared by any other species.
Dinosaurs Live On as "Most Successful Land Species"
It may be hard to imagine that your common house sparrow is the direct descendant of the dinosaurs (to be precise, she is a dinosaur). But we know it’s true. And now we know a little more about how the transition took place.
Racing 1,000 Miles to Her Adoption – Aaaw!
A small stray dog has become a sensation all across China after joining up with a cycling team and running with them for more than 1,000…
Imaginary Menagerie Takes to the Streets
Imagine if the animals escaped from the zoo and took to the streets. That’s what the folks at Lichtfaktor in Cologne, Germany, did when they put…
Masters of Camouflage
Check out this beautiful conch shell … … Well, actually it’s an octopus.
Why Newborn Beluga Whale Died at Aquarium
Mother Maris with her baby at the Georgia Aquarium The Georgia Aquarium is trying to explain why a newborn Beluga whale calf died there yesterday. But…
Top Ten ‘New’ Species for 2012
Meet the sneezing monkey, the SpongeBob SquarePants mushroom, the walking cactus, and the devil’s worm. While they’re hardly “new” species (they’ve all been around a lot…
Chimp Rescues Ducklings … Then Demands Reward
When Bossou saw three ducklings in the water around his Chimp Island at the Dublin Zoo, he decided it was time to rescue them. But he wasn’t going to give them to the SPCA without a reward.
Fido’s Mysterious Ancestors
Dr. Larson and his colleagues conducted a detailed analysis of DNA 1,375 dogs of 121 breeds, along with 19 wolves. They found that all the modern breeds of dog had been so mixed that their early genetic history was impossible to see.
Chimp Lab Fights to Save Its Own Life
As the tide begins to turn in the battle to save the lives of chimpanzees in laboratories, the laboratory that conducts most of those experiments is…
Out of the Frying Pan … Into a Good Home!
This little piggy didn’t go to market. Instead, Olivia, as she is now known, is living with her forever family. Several weeks ago, Olivia fell off a truck along Interstate 80 in Iowa. A driver who saw what had happened stopped, picked up the piglet, and took her to Animal Rescue League of Iowa (ARLI).
It’s Final: Peru Dolphins Died from Sonar Blasts
For more than two months, independent scientists, government agencies and oil company employees have been examining the bodies of dead dolphins who have been washing ashore by the hundreds on the beaches of Peru.
No Butchering at This Butcher’s Shop
The refrigerator cabinets are stuffed with ground beef, chicken pieces, meatballs, bacon, everything you’d expect to see at the butcher’s shop. Except that there’s no meat in any of them.
Where Cat Fur + Dirty Undies = Love Potion
When a woman in Malaysia reported her cat missing, the Malacca SPCA decided it was time to go snooping. After all, this was just the latest…