Eager Beavers Meet Peace Keeper
By Lauren Heine Can deception save a relationship? When it comes to humans and beavers, it’s certainly helping to keep the peace. Beavers have been driven…
By Lauren Heine Can deception save a relationship? When it comes to humans and beavers, it’s certainly helping to keep the peace. Beavers have been driven…
In this monthly blog, psychologist and author Hal Herzog, Ph.D., discusses some of the quirks and anomalies of our relationships to our fellow animals. Why don’t animals…
The intimate glimpse into the pulsing center of the natural world that modern technology delivers to us is threatening the natural world as never before. By Ptolemy Tompkins For a…
Max and Angie: a 40-year love affair By Gay Bradshaw Ph.D, Ph.D I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the…
May 17, 2010 I wanted to explore a possible volunteer opportunity at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) in Gulfport, MS. I was greeted at…
Travel Far, Think Big: Wild Madagascar Kasey-Dee Gardner Two years ago, on our first date, Dan told me the one place he couldn’t wait to visit…
Jonathan Balcombe talks about his new book: Second Nature – The Inner Lives of Animals. A humpback whale is tangled up in the ropes of crab…
May 14, 2010 I woke up to the sound of a crow cawing outside my bedroom window. Today, I am heading for the Pascagoula River Audubon…
New York on schedule with homeless pets “There’s never been a better time to be a dog in New York City,” said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proudly. The mayor…
Few people need convincing that trees are good. Their emotional and psychological value, though hard to define, is powerful and indisputable. Trees clean the air, provide protection from noise and wind, and impart a calming and peaceful aspect to the surrounding streetscape. Trees are not like mailboxes or benches or other site amenities; they are biological touchstones and quite literally living community participants. So if the street trees in your neighborhood or downtown aren’t looking so good, what to do?
By Jill Schensul The fish flew out the car window. The car never slowed down. The fish hit the road with a thwump, 10 yards ahead…
It’s Mother’s Day. So here’s a special shout-out to Nessie, a.k.a. the Loch Ness Monster. May people continue to believe that you don’t exist! After all,…
Big Jake just took over the top spot as world’s tallest living horse, and made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. At 6 feet,…
Her laundry was hanging on the line in her backyard in Victoria, Australia. But it was going to be a little difficult to bring it in…
It’s not the Hoover Dam or the Aswan Dam or even the huge Three Gorges Dam in China. It’s the Giant Beaver Dam in Canada.…
British columnist Alexander Cockburn compares Tilikum the orca to Spartacus, and calls him “the slave whale who chose to fight back.” Tilikum attacked his trainer Dawn…
This post is part of a series – Dolphins & Us, Part One – about our relationship to these remarkable marine mammals.
This post is in Part Two of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.
This post is in Part Two of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.
This post is in Part One of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.