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
An ad from Career Builder, prepared for the Super Bowl, received huge attention online. Career Builder is a Chicago company, but Dr. Steve Ross, chimp expert at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, said he couldn’t believe the company would use chimps in TV commercials.
There are many touching, heartwarming stories of “service” dogs who do amazing things to help their disabled people. But one of the most remarkable stories ever was in the New York Times magazine this weekend.
The Hill, Washington D.C.’s main newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress, is seeing a surge in lobbying activity from people in the business of doing experiments on chimpanzees.
We know you’ve been busy this week. Maybe you’re a political hound and were hanging on every chad in the Florida GOP primary (if you were DVR-ing, spoiler alert: Mitt Romney won big). Or perhaps business is your bag and you’re trying to scare up some loose change to get a piece of Facebook’s upcoming IPO. Or maybe you’re a sports junkie and have been reveling in pre-Super Bowl hype.
Three times in just four days this week, major animal abuse industries have been forced into the open to defend themselves on national TV and radio.
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They’re calling it “Blackfish” for chimpanzees, but this movie is much more: a masterpiece by the Oscar-winning team of Pennebaker/Hegedus. It premiered at the Sundance Film…
In the late 1950s, the surrealism painter Salvador Dali saw one of the canvases by Congo, a chimpanzee, whose artworks had been shown on the British TV show Zoo Time.
Ads from Subaru feature dogs in cars doing all sorts of things, going to the beach, camping, ski trip.
It’s the Rugged Automated Training System – RATS, the latest Pentagon venture to turn furry animals into bomb detectors.
Obama campaign manager David Axelrod is tweaking Mitt Romney with this photo of First Dog Bo and the caption: How loving owners transport their dogs.
Currently circulating on the Web. Original source seems to be unknown. How does your cat see things?
Watch as a baby bird half-falls, half-flies out of her nest and lands on the guitar of Josh Williams at the Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival in Denton, NC on May 5, 2011. Sitting in the front row of the audience was a veterinarian who returned the chick to her nest.
Cute bunny on a European farm keeps busy herding the sheep.
These are game-hunting ranches – also known as breeding ranches, where endangered species are being “protected.” (I’m not sure that the animals I saw being shot felt that the protection was wholly adequate.)
The new HBO TV drama series Luck – about people in the horse racing industry – hasn’t brought much good fortune to the horses. So far, two are reportedly dead – one from falling during a race sequence and another killed during a later episode.
As a gang of local youths surrounded a 30-year-old, pregnant orangutan and her 5-year-old child, all the mother could do was try to shield the baby from the knives that were coming at them.
It’s been grueling work both for the dolphins and the volunteers who have been rescuing them day and night, but it’s been worth it. Those who survived the recent mass strandings on Cape Cod shores and have been rescued are now swimming about 18 miles off the coast of Maine
The thing that took my attention the most was that if these scientists saw this twice, and around different islands, how many other times is it likely to be going on? Quite probably hundreds of times. And what does that tell us?
This bear doesn’t seem to mind that his bubble bath is ice cold. He just likes the bubbles. Photographer Sergey Gorshkov took the photo in Kamchatka, eastern Russia, as part of a project he’s been working on for seven years following a group of bears.