Moses in the Bulrushes – a Cow and Her Calf
A very touching story by veterinarian Holly Cheever about a mother cow and one of her calves. Beyond being touching, though, it raises important questions about…
A very touching story by veterinarian Holly Cheever about a mother cow and one of her calves. Beyond being touching, though, it raises important questions about…
The whale had probably been dragging this fishing gear around for months. Now he was weakened to the point where he could barely move or lift his tail. Thick rope was wrapped around his body – so tightly that it was clear that he had become entangled when he was younger and smaller, and, over the months, had grown deeply into the ever-tighter synthetic material.
Lucy the elephant at the Edmonton Zoo. The mayor of Edmonton is unhappy. He doesn’t like the fact that the Toronto city council has voted to…
Poland’s top court has ruled that ritual slaughter of animals according to religious requirements is illegal. Specifically this means that the kosher and halal method of slaughter, by which a conscious animal is held upside down while her throat is slit, cannot be continued.
New research shows that sea levels are rising considerably faster than previously calculated. The study shows that children being born today can expect to see low-lying…
The Michigan Daily reports on the “adjustment process” for a student at the U. of Michigan who is learning how to experiment on live animals. [readon]…
A rhesus monkey, named Petra, kept in a botched brain study with screws and a piece of acrylic waste buried in her head. Mice having their toes cut off without a drop of anesthesia. Others dying of thirst. Birds cut open without anesthesia. All of this, and much more, at the University of California at San Francisco, which experimented its way through 800,000 animals last year.
Claudia Flisi visited the Elephant Orphanage Sanctuary in Malaysia, which is helping to save Asian elephants from extinction. In order to remain open, the sanctuary encourages visitors and offers elephant rides. But this is no commercial zoo; its mission is to protect elephants who have been in captivity or who need to be relocated from forests where they are in increasing danger.
If you’re bewildered by things like “carbon offsets”, are trying to figure out what they’re all talking about at yet another summit (this time in Qatar),…
Bobby Roberts, owner of the Bobby Roberts Super Circus in the U.K., has been found guilty of causing suffering to the elephant Annie. But the judge…
It’s a bit like McDonalds hosting a conference on the obesity epidemic. You can’t help wondering who decided that the best location for what may be the world’s last-chance climate convention would be the fabulously wealthy Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar.
During the miserable violence that rocked the Kyaukphyu region of Myanmar earlier this month, a photo began to circulate that captures something of what our wars…
NASA has just informed us that their newest satellite, NuSTAR, has captured a pic of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy…
Forget the “fiscal cliff.” Unless dramatic, sacrificial action is taken right now, we’ll have taken the whole planet over the environmental cliff within eight years –…
At least six dolphins have been brutally murdered along the Gulf Coast in recent months – shot, stabbed, body parts hacked off. Local authorities are encouraging…
Humans, we’ve been learning, sometimes have difficulty remembering their vows, especially when one of them is on a tour of duty. But penguins are naturally faithful to each other. And one particular pair of Magellanic penguins turns out to be among the most faithful of couples.
And you thought that the words “No animals were harmed during the making of this movie” actually meant something. (It depends on what you mean by the word “making.”)
Beautiful, affectionate, intelligent, emotional, caring animals at the Eden Farm Animal Sanctuary. [readon] Runs about 20 minutes, but you can watch as much as you like.
Who will be the new chairman of the Congressional Science Committee in the House of Representatives? Someone who believes what science tells us? Or perhaps one…
Pigs have long been used as stand-ins for humans when it comes to studying the effects of bombs and bullets. They’re very like humans – especially…