Baboons Keeping Dogs as Pets
Here’s an interesting video from the documentary Animals Like Us. This sure looks like much the same thing as humans keeping dogs as pets.
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Ringling Caves!
The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in the use of…
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Mother Carries Shot Pit Bull to Safety
It started out as the same hike that Andi Davis does every day to the top of one of the mountains near where she lives in Phoenix, Arizona. But this time, close to the top,…
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Liberators or Terrorists?
When 100 people, mostly women from various rescue groups, rescued 178 beagles from a research lab in Brazil last week, nobody called them terrorists. The five security officers…
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Do Pets Prevent Sudden Death in Children with Epilepsy?
A group of Brazilian researchers wondered if the presence of a pet in the home of a child with epilepsy might reduce their risk of dying from SUDEP. They found that of the 1,092…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
Earth’s Greatest Cats
This year’s Big Cat Week on Nat Geo WILD includes the remarkable movie The Last Lions. Beginning Sunday, December 11, it’s six six days of cougars, leopards, cheetahs, tigers and their various cousins.
The Porcupine’s Pumpkin
Good news for fans of the Web’s favorite Porcupine. The super-talkative Teddy Bear, who was made virally famous last month with his super-possessive love of corn on the cob, is back with a pumpkin-size appetite.
World’s Wealthiest Kitty
Tommassino was a stray cat when Maria Assunta took him home. When she died last month at the age of 94, Assunta left him $15 million – the entire family fortune.
Dog Rescues Bag of Kittens
Kerry says her Lab-mix, Reagan, often brings things home. So she wasn’t surprised to see a crumpled bag of Meow Mix outside the front door. But Reagan was visibly upset about something, so Kerry quickly went to look. Then she heard cries from inside the bag.
Buddhism for Cats
Please Buddah, help me to accept humans for what they are…
Israel Bans Declawing Cats
Israel’s parliament has made it a criminal offense to declaw cats unless the the procedure is medically necessary or if a person can prove they would have a medical problem if scratched.
World’s Largest Insect – Eats Carrots
The giant weta can weigh nearly three ounces … more than a sparrow … more than three mice. This one is the largest ever recorded. She was pregnant (which explains the extra size), and was found on New Zealand’s Little Barrier Island
Dogs Suffering Post-Traumatic Stress
The patient was a dog, the doctor was Walter F. Burghardt, and the diagnosis: Post-Traumatic Stress.
First Night Out
Hyenas are nocturnal animals and the pups are born and raised in burrows – so daytime pictures are rare. But wildlife photographer Rajesh Pardeshi captured the moment a mother hyena brought her pups above ground in Ahmednagar, India.
When Your Cat Is Stuck in a Tree
Most cats, he says, will eventually come down themselves. And since they went up the tree to get away, they’re unlikely to come down when you call them, and will likely just go up higher when someone tries to climb up to them.
Kitten Rescue
How some police and firefighters in El Cajon, CA, spent three hours on Thanksgiving Day.
Would an Alien in a Space Ship Be a ‘Person’?
Mark Peters takes up the question of what is a person. He says the word first appears in English in the 13th Century, when it was often used to describe a role – like in the theater.
In Case You Forgot about Seamus . . .
Gail Collins simply can’t turn down any opportunity to remind us of the time Mitt Romney strapped the family dog to the roof of the station wagon for the 12-hour family trek from Boston to Canada.
Bye Bye, Birdie
Two young eagles put up a healthy fight as Dawn Keller, founder of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation, takes them from their crates and releases them into Starved Rock Nature Reserve in Illinois.
Beethoven for Blind Elephants
Barton says he’s hoping to organize a full concert for the elephants at the Kanchanaburi reserve so that the sanctuary can receive a new electric fence.
Nine Months Later . . .
This is what it should look like next August when Curiosity lands on Mars. It’s the largest E.T. vehicle ever, and will be looking for signs of life, past or present, including carbon molecules, methane gas, even genetic material from primitive life forms.
Algonquin Kitty Must Be Tied Up
Note to NYC’s Dept. of Health: You’re more likely to catch something from other guests at the Algonquin Hotel than from Matilda the cat. The city agency has “reminded” the hotel that “pets in food-service facilities” are not allowed — and the Algonquin serves food in its lobby.
