In Homer’s Odyssey, Argos the dog waits for 20 years for Odysseus, to come home from the Trojan War. Unable even to stand up any longer, he refuses to take his last breath until he’s been reunited. Here’s a more joyful compendium of Welcome Home videos.
Adorable Oscar, the star of the Disneynature movie Chimpanzee, has gone AWOL. In fact, according to the movie’s director, Mark Linfield, Oscar hasn’t been seen since…
It used to be that the humans were bothering the baboons. Now it’s the other way round. People visiting Yankari Game Reserve in Nigeria are having…
They dragged her along with a rope around her neck and pushed her down on a bench. It was feeding time for Jacqueline Traide and you…
Scientists hold petri dishes over orca blowholes to capture samples of their breath. Photo by Pete Schroeder. It’s bad enough that the orcas of Puget Sound,…
The first case in six years of a cow with mad cow disease (properly called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) has been found in California. The…
The “Vegan Frappuccino” at Starbucks sounded just fine. No dairy … all animal-free … right? Not quite. To get it to come out with that nice…
I thought one of the joys of visiting the great national parks was to leave our technobabble behind – at least for a few hours. Silly…
There are 78 million dogs living in the United States and they’re dropping 10 million tons of doggy-doo every year. That’s roughly 274 pounds per dog. What happens to all this? Much of it ends up creating a huge pollution problem.
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) is miffed about the Toronto Zoo and the Toronto City Council making the wise and humane decision to send…
Actor Mickey Rourke is well known for his love of dogs. He was reportedly heartbroken over the loss of Loki, his Chihuahua, three years ago. Three…
An orangutan peeks out of her nest in the Sumatran forest. (All photos by Adam van Casteren) You climb high up into the trees, where the…
What can we learn about the near future on Earth by looking back at eons gone by? Quite a lot, according to scientists from the U.S.…
When Dave Eyley, of Oxfordshire, England, found his hamster, Rhino, lying lifeless in his box, he dug a two-foot hole in the backyard to give his…
This Sunday, you can celebrate Earth Day by recycling something, joining a group that’s picking up old cans and bottles, taking a reusable shopping bag to the supermarket …Or you can do the one thing that will really make a difference.
Murlimann the cat had gone missing. So Austrian farmer Franz Knoglinger went looking for her. She was nowhere to be seen, but the farmer did discover…
We’ve heard plenty of stories in the last few days of tax dollars funding lavish Las Vegas vacations for government agencies and prostitution scandals in the Secret Service. But these are all peanuts compared to the amount of your money being dished out for weird vivisection experiments.
You probably have to have seen one of the French New Wave movies of the early 1960s, with their existential themes – the absurdity of human…
Dan is a baboon who lives at the Cognitive Research Laboratory in France. He and five other baboons have had access to a computer that stores 500 real four-letter words and nearly 8,000 non-words, like XFOP or TYWQ.
It’s difficult enough finding Fluffy when she’s hiding in plain sight. Try finding a Canadian lynx in the wilds of a national park. But Canadian wildlife scientists are thrilled with this photo of a lynx as she crossed a wildlife overpass in Banff National Park. It was captured on an automatic motion-sensitive camera.