A new relationship with animals, nature and each other.

The Week That Was: Hockey, Tornadoes and Furry Critters

We know you’ve been busy this week. Maybe you’re a political hound and were hanging on every chad in the Florida GOP primary (if you were DVR-ing, spoiler alert: Mitt Romney won big). Or perhaps business is your bag and you’re trying to scare up some loose change to get a piece of Facebook’s upcoming IPO. Or maybe you’re a sports junkie and have been reveling in pre-Super Bowl hype.

Three Strikes!

Three times in just four days this week, major animal abuse industries have been forced into the open to defend themselves on national TV and radio.

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They’re calling it “Blackfish” for chimpanzees, but this movie is much more: a masterpiece by the Oscar-winning team of Pennebaker/Hegedus. It premiered at the Sundance Film…

Art by Other Animals

In the late 1950s, the surrealism painter Salvador Dali saw one of the canvases by Congo, a chimpanzee, whose artworks had been shown on the British TV show Zoo Time.

Healing Arts We Can Learn from Animals

Modern treatments for acute illnesses, he told me, boil down to a handful of “pillars of medicine.” But the interesting twist was that these pillars have also evolved in other species. His enthusiasm for his new theory was infectious, and I caught the bug.

For Eden, Together

An old crabapple stands rooted – She is tense intention, enduring – At the cusp of fall turn-to-winter, – Yellow green leaves fall first – One by one then – In waves of resignation
They all drop, – But the fruit remains – Red glory against the sky – Witness to her heart.

The Bird and the Guitar

Watch as a baby bird half-falls, half-flies out of her nest and lands on the guitar of Josh Williams at the Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival in Denton, NC on May 5, 2011. Sitting in the front row of the audience was a veterinarian who returned the chick to her nest.

Is it Good ‘Luck’ for Horses, Wolves?

The new HBO TV drama series Luck – about people in the horse racing industry – hasn’t brought much good fortune to the horses. So far, two are reportedly dead – one from falling during a race sequence and another killed during a later episode.

Many Dolphins Safe after Stranding

It’s been grueling work both for the dolphins and the volunteers who have been rescuing them day and night, but it’s been worth it. Those who survived the recent mass strandings on Cape Cod shores and have been rescued are now swimming about 18 miles off the coast of Maine

Whale and Dolphin Games

The thing that took my attention the most was that if these scientists saw this twice, and around different islands, how many other times is it likely to be going on? Quite probably hundreds of times. And what does that tell us?

Bubble Bath Bear

This bear doesn’t seem to mind that his bubble bath is ice cold. He just likes the bubbles. Photographer Sergey Gorshkov took the photo in Kamchatka, eastern Russia, as part of a project he’s been working on for seven years following a group of bears.

Air Force Now Investigating Sheep Beating

Army investigators say they now believe that the men seen in a video cheering as they watch a sheep being beaten to death with a baseball in Afghanistan are airmen, and they have handed the case over to Air Force authorities.