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…
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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In 1977, a young man named Tom Otterness adopted a shelter dog, tied him to a fence, and shot him to death. He captured the entire episode on film, ran it on a continuous video loop, and called it art.
When Charlie the macaw started squawking at 2.30 am, Jack Dukes knew something was wrong. When he looked, Dukes was hit by one of the robbers.
September is “Debris Month of Action” and scuba divers are collecting data and sending it to Project AWARE to help scientists understand how much trash there is in oceans.
Many of us want to protect the planet not only because of what climate change will do to us humans, but because of the terrible suffering it’s inflicting on all the other animals.
Zoe founder Michael Mountain talks with best-selling author Jim Gorant, who has a new edition of The Lost Dogs, including updates and an afterword.
It was a more explosive variation on the whoopee cushion that when you sit on it, it makes a rude noise. In this case, the entire building had to be evacuated!
Harbor the hound is all ears – more than 2 feet of ear span from tip to tip. That wins him the 2012 Guinness World Record for the longest ears of any living dog.
Movie star Doris Day gives rare interview to pop star Paul McCartney. They’re both mega-stars. But more important to each of them is their concern for animals.
As if sensing that she was next for the slaughterhouse, Yvonne the cow broke through an electric fence on a farm near Munich, and headed for the forest.
The infamous dolphin drive hunt that takes place at this time each year in the coastal town of Taiji, Japan, is on hold – but only temporarily.
The race is on to see who can produce the first truly edible test-tube meat. So far, all that’s been produced are pale gray-looking, almost tasteless strips.
In the sweltering heat of Libya, and with the staff having abandoned the Tripoli Zoo, the animals there are simply more “collateral damage” – and the most helpless of all since they have no way to fend for themselves.
Shady went for a stroll one evening, six weeks ago, in the town of Swindon, England, and never came home. Her “owners” are very worried. But there’s a problem: Swindon does not recognize cats as pets.
“I’ve said it a thousand times,” Wayne Pacelle, the President of HSUS, said on a recent visit to Iowa. “We do not want to end livestock production.”
Honey Bun likes to hang out in Chuck Roberts’s jewelry store. The customers think he’s quite a gem. But then, the pooch devoured $10,000 worth of diamonds.
If our justice system can view a corporation a person, like Romney said, perhaps one day it will be able to see at least some of our fellow animals as persons, too.
It’s looking increasingly like the end is in sight for the use of chimpanzees in invasive research in the United States.
Don Moore, the associate director for animal care sciences at the zoo, says that exercises and puzzles like this keep the elephants’ minds sharp.
A mother bear reportedly strangled her cub and then killed herself by running head first into a wall. What would cause a mother to do this? What would cause any bear to do this?
Emmit Thunderpaws doesn’t do anything by halves. The Great Dane gave a giant “Welcome home!” to his military dad who was returning from a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan.