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?
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Sacred Activism in the Service of Animals
Of Humans and Persons
With the blood of tens of thousands of animals on their hands, these two Lady Macbeths are probably incapable of stopping killing homeless pets on their own. So it’s time for animal protection organizations to speak up with a single, united voice against this unconscionable travesty.
With public opinion solidly behind no longer having wild animals in circuses, Britain’s Conservative government has caved to the pressure and agreed to a complete ban.
Amy Jung went to bed at around 9.30. At about 11 p.m., Pudding woke her up by jumping on her chest, pawing her face and biting her nose. Amy was having a diabetic seizure.
Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, got a big vote of praise from the International Fur Trade Federation (IFTF) for wearing a fur-lined jacket. The only problem: It wasn’t real fur.
The investigation will focus on the health problems suffered by popular breeds, like spaniels, bulldogs and pugs, who are deliberately bred for distorted physical features that cause lifelong sickness, discomfort and pain.
A typical dolphin pod, or family, consists of about 12 individuals. So this video is beyond astonishing: roughly 2,000 dolphins all together as they race a whale-watching boat.
When the Earth warms up, animals get smaller. That’s what happened 56 million years ago during another time of global warming. Temperatures rose roughly 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and scientists examining the fossils of horses from that time are seeing that to cope with the heat, they began to shrink in size.
It’s well known by now that sharks have a lot more to fear from humans than the other way round. We’re killing them by the hundreds of millions every year to the point where they’re now close to extinction.
There’s more and more evidence that chimps have what scientists call a “theory of mind” – the ability to understand the minds of others. (It was once thought that only humans had this ability.)
Ayumu, who lives at Kyoto University in Japan, is back in the news for his ability to remember the location and order of a set of numbers in less time than it take you to blink – 30 milliseconds, to be precise.
But human children — and most higher animals — are “moral” in a scientific sense, because they need to cooperate with each other to reproduce and pass on their genes, he said.
While scientists have been leery of attributing specific droughts, heat waves and other weather events to climate change, you can now definitely draw the connection. The big Texas and Oklahoma droughts, for example, are indeed a direct result of climate change.
PETA is reporting that all three companies have been paying for tests on animals in order to satisfy the requirements of the Chinese government.
Graduate students Erica Tennenhouse, right, and Amber Walker-Bolton were pleading for the last two monkeys in research at the Univ. of Toronto be retired to a sanctuary.
You care about animals but still can’t quit eating meat? Help is at hand, according to a panel of scientists at the annual AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) meeting in Vancouver.
Rick Santorum defended his earlier remarks that President Obama’s policies – specifically about the enormous changes that are taking place to the planet and our climate – are not “based on the Bible” but rather in “some phony theology.”
At the world’s largest science conference, scientists and ethicists presented the case for recognizing dolphins and whales as non-human persons.
Jon Stewart: “As a president, you want a guy who makes good decisions. Putting your dog on the roof of your car…is not a good idea. That’s it. End of story. I don’t care about anything else.”
Where’s the cuttlefish among all these pebbles? Yes, right there in the middle. But she didn’t look like this a moment ago; as she settled among the pebbles to hide from predators, she jut completely changed her appearance.
The total, so far, of 177 dolphins (125 of whom have died) is nearly five times what’s normal, and there’s no explanation.