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.
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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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Collapse of Antarctic Ice Sheet Irreversible
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…
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2013 Game Changers
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…
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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…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
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…
Italians Muzzle Pet Tax
An Italian canine da pastore Bergamasco It was all bark, no bite when a parliamentary commission in Italy proposed to help cut the massive debt by…
The World Is Not Enough (Soon We’ll Need Two More)
Scientist Stephen Hawking argues that since one day we may have to leave Planet Earth, we may as well get started on the project. But if…
Coffee with Kitties
Next time you’re in Vienna, drop by the Café Neko. Best go in the evening because some of the staff are snoozing all day. Café Neko…
How the First Orcas Were Captured and Sold to Marine Circuses
In August 1970, TV cameras were on hand as seven orcas (killer whales) were captured off the coast of Seattle and taken to marine circuses like SeaWorld and the Miami Seaquarium.
Did Dogs Help Us Beat the Neanderthals?
That means that the bond between humans and dogs was much stronger than simply the old “guarding the cave and getting a bone in return” idea, and that humans recognized an enormous dependence on their new best friends.
Running from Climate Change Getting Tougher
Some of our closest cousins, like the howler monkey in this photo, are finding it harder to escape from climate change fast enough. A new study,…
Lead Bullet Bill Is Jumping the Gun
A bill that’s described as supporting hunting and gun rights is not only bad for the animals; it’s even poisoning the hunters! The Sportsmen’s Heritage Act would allow people to keep using lead ammunition and tackle when hunting and fishing.
Yet More Antibiotics in Feed Lots
It’s bad enough that animals at factory farms are being dosed up with antibiotics. Now we’re learning that they’re getting a whole other source of antibiotics, too – not just the kinds that come directly from the pharmaceutical industry.
Trapped Orangutan Puts a Face on Wildlife Struggles
By Seamus McAfee An orphaned orangutan who tried to escape from a snare in the Indonesian rainforest by chewing off his own hand is recovering at…
Interview with Horse Champion
In a darkly satiric story in The Onion, Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another says he hopes that he won’t have to run another race like that one.
Chimp Santino Plans His Attacks on Zoo Visitors
Santino has never had much patience for the humans who come to gawp at him at the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden. Fifteen years ago, at age…
Navy Sonar Will Impact More Sea Mammals
Dolphins off the coast of Southern Calif. as USS Halsey conducts military exercise New Navy documents show that over the next five years more dolphins, whales…
Horse Wins Race, Drops Dead
He’d just won another $90,000 for his owners – this time at the Iroquois Steeplechase in Tennessee. But this would be Arcadius’s last race. Right after…
Is This Nessie’s Cousin?
Mystery solved? Maybe. A scientist in Alaska suspects that the “monster” who inhabits Alaska’s Lake Iliamna may be a sleeper shark – one of the largest…
PBS Takes Up the Chimp Testing Debate
There are no other animals quite like them, except us. They share 99 percent of our DNA, and it shows. They scheme, plot and fight. They…
Happy Birthday, Edward Lear
Born 200 years ago, he is probably most famous for: The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They…
All You Can Eat
Two-thirds of adults and one-third of children in the United States are overweight or obese. We’re not only eating ourselves to death; the “food” we eat is actively poisoning us. And some of it is poisoning the planet, too.
“Game Over” for Climate Warns Top NASA Scientist
From pristine forest to world-polluting wasteland – Photos by Peter Essick, 2009 James Hansen, the NASA scientist who’s considered the leading expert on climate science has…