This blog is taking a break for the next few months so that I can devote my energies to the Whale Sanctuary Project. Here's why.
The Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica was the first of its kind for these wonderfully engaging animals, and it was a model for others that followed. But questions have arisen. And…
Tafi Atome looks like a typical forest in Ghana. The monkeys have been revered in this village for two centuries. But being “sacred” is no guarantee of survival.
The great irony of the animal rights movement is there is still only one species that has any rights at all: humans. But the Nonhuman Rights Project is setting out to change that.
Why would a supposedly “intelligent” species behave in a way that’s bringing about a mass extinction – one that will likely take us down along with so many other animals?
Is the Stock Market a Global Ponzi Scheme?
Sacred Activism in the Service of Animals
Of Humans and Persons
Do chimpanzees, orangutans and other nonhuman great apes have distinct personalities like us? It’s been a longstanding debate within the scientific community, and those who seek to exploit these animals have long argued that “personality” is a distinctly human attribute, not shared by any other species.
How long might it take to recover from the Sixth Great Extinction that scientists tell us is now underway? The most well known extinction event was the one that brought an end to the reign of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That was the Fifth Great Extinction.
It may be hard to imagine that your common house sparrow is the direct descendant of the dinosaurs (to be precise, she is a dinosaur). But we know it’s true. And now we know a little more about how the transition took place.
A small stray dog has become a sensation all across China after joining up with a cycling team and running with them for more than 1,000…
What happens when the primary mission of a zoo, which is to entertain people, meets up with a secondary mission to become involved in conservation programs?
Imagine if the animals escaped from the zoo and took to the streets. That’s what the folks at Lichtfaktor in Cologne, Germany, did when they put…
Check out this beautiful conch shell … … Well, actually it’s an octopus.
Mother Maris with her baby at the Georgia Aquarium The Georgia Aquarium is trying to explain why a newborn Beluga whale calf died there yesterday. But…
Meet the sneezing monkey, the SpongeBob SquarePants mushroom, the walking cactus, and the devil’s worm. While they’re hardly “new” species (they’ve all been around a lot…
When Bossou saw three ducklings in the water around his Chimp Island at the Dublin Zoo, he decided it was time to rescue them. But he wasn’t going to give them to the SPCA without a reward.
Is the arrival of the doom-laden, rogue planet Melancholia, in last year’s movie of the same name, a metaphor for what’s happening as climate change overtakes the Earth?
A touching video of a giant leatherback turtle being rescued and returned to the ocean on the beaches of Grenada. Check out the work of the…
If you took all the water in the world and scooped it into one big ball – the oceans, ice caps, rivers, wells, clouds, the water…
Dr. Larson and his colleagues conducted a detailed analysis of DNA 1,375 dogs of 121 breeds, along with 19 wolves. They found that all the modern breeds of dog had been so mixed that their early genetic history was impossible to see.
As the tide begins to turn in the battle to save the lives of chimpanzees in laboratories, the laboratory that conducts most of those experiments is…
“When you walk in, all of these sows are showing this volume of insanity. They’re swaying, they’re biting the bars, they’re listing in front of the…
Chimpanzees don’t pretend to each other that the wars they’re fighting are “good wars” – fought for ethical purposes, in which “we” are on the “good” side. That’s a uniquely human wrinkle on violence.
This little piggy didn’t go to market. Instead, Olivia, as she is now known, is living with her forever family. Several weeks ago, Olivia fell off a truck along Interstate 80 in Iowa. A driver who saw what had happened stopped, picked up the piglet, and took her to Animal Rescue League of Iowa (ARLI).
My camera couldn’t do justice to the eclipse last night, but here are a couple of photos that capture exactly what it looked like from outside…
For more than two months, independent scientists, government agencies and oil company employees have been examining the bodies of dead dolphins who have been washing ashore by the hundreds on the beaches of Peru.