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How's the animal rights movement doing? If you rate it by the simple question "How many animals have rights?" you'd have to say "Not very well." Call it the animal rights paradox.
Premiered at Sundance, the movie follows attorney Steven M. Wise as he argues to a high court judges that chimpanzee Tommy has the capacity for legal rights and should be set free…
Winston Churchill famously said: “A dog looks up to you; a cat looks down on you; only a pig treats you as an equal.” But that, of course, is hardly how we treat them…
In a sane world, it would be headline news. Everything else would immediately come to a screeching halt to make way for a massive, worldwide attempt to turn things around. (Of…
The Whale Who Took Down SeaWorld
Egg Industry Concession Is No ‘Victory’
For Chimps, the End of Vivisection, Almost
Cecil Is the Least of It
Another “mysterious” death at SeaWorld. Except that there’s nothing mysterious about it. Three out of four captive orcas never reach their 10th birthday. Sumar was the son of Tilikum, who went crazy and killed his trainer. Sumar’s mother also died earlier this year. How long can this go on?
A dead dog continues to haunt New York City and the no-kill movement. By Michael Mountain Oreo was a pit bull dog, abused by a young…
Testing out weapons of war at Porton Down By Michael Mountain In a post in the News & Views section, we write about the use of…
Is it right to rope them in on our human wars? (See also Michael’s column Animals, Conspiracies & ‘The Avengers’) Is it justifiable to try out…
Aet at a village water pump, a “water-cooler discussion.” By Rishi Dev I was just driving through a village. It was hot as ever and I…
This post is in Part Two of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.
Kiki and Keykey had a rough start in Afghanistan. But with U.S. Marines to call their buddies, they’ve ended up living happily ever after. Brian Chambers and his buddies have been caring for the orphan kittens of war.
At first, Pen Farthing thought it was a joke. An e-mail from the U.K.’s prestigious dog show, Cruft’s, inviting his dog Nowzad to make a special appearance.…
When she’s not teaching psychology at Harvard University, Regina Yando, (her friends call her Sunny) takes off around the world with her husband, John, to see…
This post is in Part One of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.
This post is in Part Two of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.
This post is in Part Two of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.
This post is in Part One of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.
This post is in Part One of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.
In this monthly blog, psychologist and author Hal Herzog, Ph.D., discusses some of the quirks and anomalies of our relationships to our fellow animals. Why don’t animals…
Travel Far, Think Big: Wild Madagascar Kasey-Dee Gardner Two years ago, on our first date, Dan told me the one place he couldn’t wait to visit…
Jonathan Balcombe talks about his new book: Second Nature – The Inner Lives of Animals. A humpback whale is tangled up in the ropes of crab…
British columnist Alexander Cockburn compares Tilikum the orca to Spartacus, and calls him “the slave whale who chose to fight back.” Tilikum attacked his trainer Dawn…
This post is part of a series – Dolphins & Us, Part One – about our relationship to these remarkable marine mammals.
This post is in Part Two of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.