Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. The research at Laval University is still in the earliest stages. But the seal industry doesn't care. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.
4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 26, 2011
His large pouty eyes, silky fur-coat, and silly little paws on which he fumbled all over the hay-covered kennel, lured me in like a dog to a bone. Before visiting the local animal shelter, I should have done some background research. The following is a guest post from Kevin Sloan. Don’t let the dog eat your homework.
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists. In the author's words.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2013
However recent research has shown that they are in fact not baboons, despite superficial appearances, and they are now just called “Gelada”. Especially in the dry season, bands join together forming grazing herds, which can number up to 1,200 animals (although 500-600 is more normal.) Male Gelada in his prime. Photo by Adam Riley.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Over 3 million pairs of Antarctic Fur Seals breed on South Georgia, saved from near extinction by fur hunters. Others, my favorites, show the species within the habitat: breaching Humpback Whales, a Reindeer confronting a King Penguin (below), an elevated view of a beach full of breeding Fur Seals.
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