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…
One of the six major glaciers being eroded from below by warm water What does it mean when two major studies this week tell us that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is…
Two events share top prize as game changers for the year just ending: The Nonhuman Rights Project's lawsuits have started a whole new conversation about how we relate to other…
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…
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No cheating, no wife swapping, no ménages-a-trois, no polygamy. Coyote couples are partners for life. That’s the finding of a new study of urban coyotes in and around Chicago. Over six years, the research team didn’t find a single case of a coyote having more than one mate – nor of one mate ever leaving another while the other was still alive.
I’m sometimes a bit suspicious of people who call themselves animal lovers. “Loving” animals can mean all kinds of things. And while most of the people…
The National Institutes of Health has taken another step toward ending medical and scientific research on chimpanzees. All of the government’s 110 chimpanzees at the infamous New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana are being made “permanently ineligible” for research. But it’s only a small step. Just 10 of the chimps are being moved to a sanctuary – Chimp Haven. The other 100 are going to a research center in Texas. Why is that?
In the wake of revelations about the global ivory business and the Catholic Church, the Vatican has announced that self-confessed child abuser Msgr. Cristobal Garcia is…
A mother scorpion gives birth, and is captured in an award-winning photo. The photo is part of a set, “New Life”, about the birth of insects…
When people ask me what they can do in the face of what’s shaping up to be a mass extinction of species, I always say that switching to a plant-based diet is the single best thing any of us can do. Not only is the food delicious and healthful; eating it becomes an act of solidarity with your new friends, the farm animals.
A 60-second video to show to anyone who doesn’t understand what the Sixth Great Extinction means … to them: [readon] This and other great videos on…
While we humans have three types of photoreceptors in our eyes, mantis shrimps have 12. Many birds can see in the ultraviolet range. Some of them…
This photo of John Unger lulling his aging, arthritic dog, Schoep, to a comfortable snooze in Lake Superior has given birth to a foundation to help…
As global warming takes its toll on farmlands, the world is beginning to run out of bacon. Britain’s National Pig Association is pleading with the British…
Several companies are already in a race to be the first to produce tasty meat grown in laboratories from cultured cells, not living animals. But one…
How many sheep can fit inside a village sports store? (Try counting them in this video.) [readon] The sheep were trotting through the village of Sankt…
In Kenya, Christian, Muslim and Hindu leaders stand around a pile of ivory captured from elephant poachers and pray that religion will help “God’s creatures” to…
It seems to be a rule of thumb in the election campaign: Talk about anything you like – abortion, jobs, taxes, the other guy’s taxes, anything…
Larry the cat, who was specifically adopted from the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home for the purpose of catching mice at Number 10, Downing Street, the…
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Last weekend, when I was on the Animal Wise radio talk show, Mike and Beth (the hosts) asked me how any of us can stay sane…
In May, undercover video from the Humane Society of the U.S.showed horses being tortured and beaten to get them to do the high-stepping dance that’s the…
When the American Museum of Agriculture in Lubbock, TX, wanted a diorama that would illustrate how mules have played a part in agriculture, they could have…
When his daughter, Tansy, was just 18 months old, Damian Aspinall put her in one of the gorilla enclosures at his wildlife park in the U.K.…