Seattle Zoo Investigates Itself
It’s a dark tale of rape, incest, torture and cover-up: A female elephant artificially inseminated at least 112 times; a male elephant forced to breed with…
Condor Cam
If you tune in at the right time, you might catch up to 25 California condors in front of this new live-streaming camera. [readon] It’s the…
‘The End of Antibiotics – Period.’
For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about “The end of antibiotics? (question mark)” Well, now I would…
The Dogs Who Wouldn’t Be Separated
Why would Ben, a 4-year-old mutt who’d found the perfect forever home, run away and go all the way back to the shelter? The answer: He…
Blackfish, CNN and SeaWorld’s Silence
If you haven’t seen Blackfish yet, be sure to watch it on CNN tomorrow evening. The movie by Gabriella Cowperthwaite uncovers much of what SeaWorld has…
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…
Cats and the Zombie Apocalypse
Good news if you live in North Carolina: Thanks to cats, especially kittens, you are almost zombie-free. A study by the Wake County SPCA and the…
They’re on Their Way
Two trucks, three elephants, and a convoy of veterinarians, caregivers, police and other appropriate officials. After three years of petitions, arguments, agreements, disagreements, votes, flight plans,…
Abortion and Factory Farming
Can you truly be “pro-life” if you patronize the factory farms? And, the other way round, can you truly call yourself an animal rights supporter…
How the Zombie Invasion Might End
If you’re panicking over the continuing zombie invasions that threaten to wipe out humankind, take heart. Nature may have a solution.
The Yeti Bear
Walt Disney imagined the Abominable Snowman as a red-eyed monster when he conceived the Matterhorn Ride in 1959. But for hundreds of years before that, imaginations…
Running Out of Patience
Her patience, it seems, finally ran out. Maybe it’s because elephants never forget. And Patience had a lot of bad things to remember – dating back…
Nonhuman Persons and The Slippery Slope
More about Gregory Berns’ article “Dogs Are People, Too“, which I wrote about earlier this week. Berns has been getting quite a lot of pushback from…
The Great Lion Hug
Don’t try this at home – or on your next trip to Africa. But zoologist Kevin Richardson has a new video promoting his work with lions.
How Dogs Really Think and Feel
It seems obvious to most of us that dogs (and other animals) share the same kinds of emotions as we humans. But how do we really…
Rescuing Foggy the Humpback Whale
Foggy and Grommet are well known to whale-watching boats off the coast of Nova Scotia. The two humpback whales are rarely seen apart from each other.…
Baby Elephant Tries to Wake Dog
. . . and a bear who’s a bit more polite than the baby elephant: [readon]
Leaving Las Vegas
Last December, Terry the chimpanzee celebrated his 34th birthday. He got some apples and other treats, and a few visitors wandered by, but it wasn’t much of…
How Elephants Say Goodbye
Most of us have seen photos of videos of elephant herds gathering around one of their own who’s passed away and for whom they’re grieving. This…