Porcupines – the Nice and the Naughty
The ridiculously cute and chatty porcupine Kemosabe in his tree fort at the Animal Wonders sanctuary in Montana: [readon] Animal Wonders cares for animals who have…
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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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Collapse of Antarctic Ice Sheet Irreversible
One of the six major glaciers being eroded from below by warm water What does it mean when two major studies this week tell us that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is…
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2013 Game Changers
Two events share top prize as game changers for the year just ending: The Nonhuman Rights Project's lawsuits have started a whole new conversation about how we relate to other…
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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…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
Julia Rescues a Bee
Julia rescued Lemon, a carpenter bee, five years ago, when she was eight years old. Lemon couldn’t fly, but, as Julia writes: He lived for 3…
Why More Animal Experiments Last Year
The vivisection industry – the experimenters, the animal breeders, the equipment makers, the funding agencies, etc. – has its spin doctors out this week. That’s because…
Dog to the Rescue!
As more and more of Europe was awash in floods last month, it could be difficult to get around. Especially if you were in a wheelchair.…
Foxes on a Trampoline
Good first effort, guys. But if you come back for more, try getting a bit more bounce next time.
The Best Singing Cockatiel Ever?
She’s got it all: Hits all the notes right on, perfect timing, all the cadences – and notice how she rounds out the end of the…
Chimpanzee Decisions a ‘Very, Very Important Milestone’
The decision by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to phase out medical research on chimpanzees and to send all but 50 of the 360 who…
James Gandolfini’s Last Supper: Foie Gras
James Gandolfini’s family quoted his autopsy as saying that the 51-year-old actor had “died of a heart attack, of natural causes.”
But there’s nothing “natural” about dying of a heart attack when you’re 51 years old. Especially when you read what Gandolfini had for dinner the night he died.
How History Is Like a Roll of Toilet Paper
If the history of our planet were on a roll of toilet paper – unrolled across the floor or down a hill – where would we…
Just Like a Duck Takes to Water
After being penned up with a hoarder, two dozen ducks figure out their new pond. They’re from a group of 130 birds rescued by the Woodstock…
Don’t Say ‘Meat’; Say ‘Protein’
Is the very notion of “meat” becoming so icky that food companies are getting worried about saying the very word itself? According to Businessweek, Taco Bell…
The Dog Who Doesn’t Want a Bath
. . . really, really, would prefer not to have one, if you don’t mind.
Congressional Cave of the Week
All it took was one letter from the meat lobby – and Congress caved. In keeping with a growing number of institutions that promote “Meatless Monday”…
Enough Already!
One of the gorillas at the Dallas Zoo has finally had enough of a bunch of out-of-control kids yelling abuse at him through the glass. This…
Fires Seen from Space Station
The Indonesian fire that’s burning down forests for palm oil plantations, killing more of the remaining orangutans, and choking nearby Singapore. [readon] The West Fork Complex…
Colbert on Chicken Cages
Stephen Colbert takes the side of (and you know what that means!) Iowa Rep. Steve King, who’s pro-dogfighting, against evacuating pets in natural disasters, and angry…
The Other Stone Henge
The Avebury henge, by Gregg Parker. This is the Avebury Stone Circle, which surrounds the village of Avebury, near Stonehenge in southwest England. Built nearly 3,000…
Otterly Fun
Aussies in Borneo get a wannabe hitchhiker. “After we got him out, he proceeded to chase the car up the dirt track like a dog.”
James Cameron’s Vegan Epiphany
I’ve had an epiphany recently. I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and…