SeaWorld Former Trainers Speak Out
Former SeaWorld trainers speak about the danger and about how wrong it is to be keeping killer whales in captivity in the first place.
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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
Rick Perry Compares Self to Galileo
One good thing about presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry is that, unlike Michelle Bachman, he doesn’t later back down from the bizarre remarks he makes.
World’s Dog-Eared Record
Harbor the hound is all ears – more than 2 feet of ear span from tip to tip. That wins him the 2012 Guinness World Record for the longest ears of any living dog.
Doris Day + Paul McCartney = Animals
Movie star Doris Day gives rare interview to pop star Paul McCartney. They’re both mega-stars. But more important to each of them is their concern for animals.
Runaway Cow Has Good New Home
As if sensing that she was next for the slaughterhouse, Yvonne the cow broke through an electric fence on a farm near Munich, and headed for the forest.
Dolphins Teach Each Other New Trick
Scientists at Murdoch University in Western Australia began noticing dolphins carrying large conch shells in their mouths to trap small fish.
Typhoon Delays Taiji Dolphin Massacre
The infamous dolphin drive hunt that takes place at this time each year in the coastal town of Taiji, Japan, is on hold – but only temporarily.
Coming Soon: Test-Tube Sausages
The race is on to see who can produce the first truly edible test-tube meat. So far, all that’s been produced are pale gray-looking, almost tasteless strips.
Animals at the Zoo in Tripoli
In the sweltering heat of Libya, and with the staff having abandoned the Tripoli Zoo, the animals there are simply more “collateral damage” – and the most helpless of all since they have no way to fend for themselves.
Al Gore: ‘Treat Climate Deniers like Racists’
Al Gore says it’s time to stop pussyfooting around people who want us to believe that the climate isn’t changing and that humans aren’t causing global warming.
American Humane’s Gourmet Meat Fest
“They enjoyed a six-course meal that included scallops, chicken breast and beef wellington. They went all out and even prepared a press release prior to the episode to tout their delicious meal.”
Where Your Cat Is Not Your Cat
Shady went for a stroll one evening, six weeks ago, in the town of Swindon, England, and never came home. Her “owners” are very worried. But there’s a problem: Swindon does not recognize cats as pets.
HSUS: Against Factory Farming or Not?
“I’ve said it a thousand times,” Wayne Pacelle, the President of HSUS, said on a recent visit to Iowa. “We do not want to end livestock production.”
Too Many for Noah’s Ark!
If they were heading two by two into his legendary ark, Noah would have needed space for more than 17 million animals, less than 2 million of them have ever been seen.
Yet Another Billion-Dollar Climate Disaster
So far this year, there have been 10 billion-dollar disasters – more than in any previous year in U.S. history. Hurricane Irene could top the charts.
Diamonds Are a Dog’s Best Friend
Honey Bun likes to hang out in Chuck Roberts’s jewelry store. The customers think he’s quite a gem. But then, the pooch devoured $10,000 worth of diamonds.
Mitt Romney Spoke the Truth
If our justice system can view a corporation a person, like Romney said, perhaps one day it will be able to see at least some of our fellow animals as persons, too.
How Animals Sense Earthquakes
Animals many times pick up on a quake usually seconds or minutes in advance, and we now have a likely explanation of what’s happening.
Will Research on Chimps Be Banned?
It’s looking increasingly like the end is in sight for the use of chimpanzees in invasive research in the United States.
When the Fruit Is Not Low-Hanging
Don Moore, the associate director for animal care sciences at the zoo, says that exercises and puzzles like this keep the elephants’ minds sharp.