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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They may never completely take over from cats as the Web’s favorite nonhuman. After all, they’re never going to type, play the piano or chase each other round the room. But that’s the whole point. Sloths do everything slo-o-owly.
People often refer to their pets as members of the family. As such, the pets are subject to many of the joys and tribulations of the household. Children and pets go through their own stages of development as do their parents and guardians. They bond and grow together, but not always harmoniously. We often hear of custody battles going on for years over who is responsible for the care of the child and under what conditions.
Essentially, Animal Law is any kind of legal work that involves non-human animals. Often Animal Law is thought of in terms of helping animals, but that’s not always the case.
Zuckerberg placed it there recently as a prank, to surprise his top exec with the installation of the very hairy bison when she was away from Facebook’s Silicon Valley HQ. And surprised she was when she got back and was faced with the creature, which pretty much takes up the whole room.
Around 200 people staged a protest on the Mediterranean island nation of Malta asking for a ban on all circuses involving animals. The Animal Circus calls itself a Christmas tradition in Malta, but local animal protection groups have long been pushing for it to be stopped.
Just as a team of Dutch researchers are pushing to publish the details of how they created an easily-transmitted mutation of the deadly bird flu virus, H5N1 has struck yet again in Hong Kong.
In the wake of a team of Dutch researchers creating a deadly new strain of H5N1 bird flu virus in their lab, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, overseen by the National Institutes of Health, has asked two journals, Science and Nature, not to publish “experimental details and mutation data that would enable replication of the experiments.”
Speaking of Mitt Romney tying Seamus the dog to the top of the car for a 12-hour drive, there’s more about dogs and the presidential candidates from Leslie Bennetts at The Daily Beast.
NPR media correspondent David Falkenflik takes up the question of why New York Times columnist Gail Collins is so taken up with the story of how Mitt Romney once strapped the family dog to the roof of the car for a 12-hour drive to Canada.
Soon after she adopted Princess the poodle, things started going wrong for psychic artist and color therapist Olga Horvat. Her husband had a car crash and came down with an auto-immune disease. Her daughter got expelled from school for bad behavior. And the apartment got bed bugs. Then poor Princess fell down the stairs and died.
Comedian Ricky Gervais has joined a campaign to stop Bantin & Kingman Universal Ltd. from building a large farm to breed beagles for experimentation.
Russia, one of the last remaining markets for fur from the infamous baby harp seal hunt in Canada, is banning the import and export of harp seal skins.
Bob Barker, former host of The Price is Right, has offered to cover the cost of transporting three elephants from the Toronto Zoo to a sanctuary in California.
It’s going to be a no-kill Christmas for Kate Middleton. The Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince William, has made it known that she won’t be killing animals at the hunting party on December 26.
The folks at Frugal Dad have produced an infographic showing how our food supply is governed by a small handful of huge companies. They wield enormous influence.
The good news is that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has accepted the recommendations of an expert panel to cut way back on using chimpanzees in medical research.
It’s first-class travel for Bradley the chimp. He’s one of the last of the chimps on their way from the former Coulston Research Facility to a new home in Florida.
“New Jersey’s black bear hunts painfully illustrate the extent to which government can sanction cruelty toward other species. The hunts are basically massacres of highly intelligent and sensitive animals.”
The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) is out with its annual rankings on the best and worst states when it comes to laws that protect animals from cruelty.
Last week, for the fourth time in six weeks, a horse pulling a carriage full of tourists collapsed on the streets of New York City’s Midtown, stumbled, collapsed, lay on her side as traffic backed up around her, and couldn’t get back up.