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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals.
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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. What messages and techniques have been proven effective in getting people to make compassionate decisions like boycotting fur and adopting companion animals instead of buying them?
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”. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. This has resulted in their populations returning to natural levels and their fear of humans being curtailed. Male Gelada in his prime.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. by Marc Bekoff.
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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