Living Up to Their Name!
World’s most slothful sloth. Chewbacca, from a volunteer at the Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica.
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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
Terrarism and the Terrarists
Terrarism, terrarists and terracide: words coined on the TomDispatch blog to refer to the the men who run what may be the most profitable corporations on…
Beginner’s Guide to the Sixth Mass Extinction
Not sure what we mean by the Sixth Mass Extinction? What were the other five? Is there really a sixth one going on? Will we all…
Questions from a High School Student
A high school student who’s giving a presentation to her class about sport hunting asked if I’d be up for answering some brief questions on the…
Why You Lie Like an Ape
Next time someone catches you telling a small fib, just explain that, as one of the great apes, it’s just part of your cooperative nature. After…
A Week of Extreme Weather
A whole neighborhood of Granbury, Texas, was leveled in one of the tornadoes that tore up whole swaths of the United States last week. But that…
Are the Elephants Fighting Back?
It was just one small battle in a war that the elephants are losing, but the body of a poacher has been found at a National…
How a Tarantula Sheds Her Skin
This isn’t the tarantula; it’s what the tarantula leaves behind when she sheds her skin. Here’s a time lapse video of how she does it –…
Dog Saves Kitten in Ravine
Great story of a dog rescuing a kitten whom she found at the bottom of a ravine behind a Home Depot store in Anderson, South Carolina.…
Ex-RSPCA Officer Hanged Herself
A former inspector for the British Royal SPCA, who blew the whistle on how many dogs are routinely being killed by the animal charity, rather than…
The $325,000 Burger
Meat cells being grown in a petri dish The inventors of the first laboratory-grown meat are gearing up to unveil their creation in a few weeks…
Greenhouse Gases Just Gone Through the Roof
Last week, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere went through the roof. Another roof. The previous roof was 350 parts per million (ppm) –…
Tennessee Gov. Vetoes Ag-Gag Bill
It’s a small victory, but a big precedent, for the animals at factory farms: Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has vetoed the ag-gag bill that would effectively…
Chihuahua Plays Pool
You get one shot; the Chihuahua gets 16.
"My Fellow New Yorkers and Animal Lovers …"
It was like one of those early Republican primary debates where all the candidates try to outdo each other in terms of how many assault weapons…
Senator’s Remarkable Climate Sermon
An oration about climate change … loaded with Bible quotes … invoking the name of the Almighty in almost every other sentence. Must have been delivered…
Household Product Testing – Useless?
Three months ago, we took note of a 10-year study finding that billions of dollars of research and billions of lives of mice have gone down…