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In October last year, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took SeaWorld to court on behalf of five killer whales, asking for their immediate release into the wild on the basis of slavery. A judge has tossed the claim out.
PETA wanted five whales released because keeping them in captivity at SeaWorld was... |
9 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is redoubling its attack on Liam Neeson and his latest film, “The Grey,” which sees him go up against a pack of hungry wolves – and win. Boycotting the film is the only solution, PETA says in a new statement issued to The Guardian. Initially, th... |
7 February 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Stunner Penelope Cruz has joined the long line of celebrities to campaign for PETA against fur. You can see her ad for the People of Ethical Treatment of Animals by clicking on the image above. We all know that PETA loves its shock tactics, which, fortunately for some, include having some of the hottest female stars ... |
3 February 2012
10:25 GMT |
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Kristen Bell is crazy for sloths and, for once, this isn't just a way of saying that she loves them. She's really “crazy” about them and is so obsessed with them that she can't stop crying whenever she sees one. We even have proof.The actress was on Ellen DeGeneres the other day where, amon... |
2 February 2012
04:17 GMT |
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The latest man vs. nature film to arrive in theaters is “The Grey,” directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Liam Neeson. While earning the number 1 spot at the box office over the weekend, the film has also managed to attract negative criticism from various animal rights groups.As we also reported on a coup... |
30 January 2012
07:50 GMT |
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If you picture a cat, a regular cat going up against an alligator, chances are you wouldn't assume it would also win. Check out the video above to see it's possible. The clip was shot in November 2010 in a wildlife part in New Orleans. Tourists fed an alligator chicken meat and then recorded as a cat tried ... |
24 January 2012
06:24 GMT |
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A video that was shot a little over a year ago has just gone viral. It has puppies, it has cows and it has lots of cuteness, so it's no wonder it did, even if a bit later.
You can see it in full above.
Lucy is a 6-month boxer (or was at the time the video was shot) from New Castle. On one of her daily walks i... |
23 January 2012
09:27 GMT |
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If you happen to be out of unicorns and rainbows today, we have just the thing for you. From the vaults of the wide Internet, we bring you this beautiful love story of a baby deer and a baby kitten. As the description of the video says, their name is Faline and Boots and they are “in love.” We're alm... |
9 January 2012
09:15 GMT |
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Biologists are always excited whenever they identify a new species of plants or animals. However, a recent article reveals that humans often take advantage of this series of unique discoveries with a high conservation value to experience financial advantages.
For years, a powerful illegal animals trade has put all ... |
22 December 2011
08:29 GMT |
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Raising the people 's level of awareness regarding environmental challenges is often a difficult task. Experts try to tackle a wide series of issues using unconventional methods. Two of the most ingenious ways of celebrating wildlife seem to be scientific tattoos and a new kind of game that proves some characte... |
12 December 2011
09:23 GMT |
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China is keen on making wildlife smugglers go out of business. The nation plans to scale efforts to protect its endangered creatures, by discouraging poaching activities and illegal animal trade. It seems that the fight such kind of operation disrupting the balance of ecosystems will receive a much-needed financial s... |
10 December 2011
06:54 GMT |
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Vulnerable creatures on the verge of extinction end up on the dinner tables of malnourished children from poor nations all across the Globe. The situation appears to be very delicate especially in Madagascar, where cute furry lemurs are seen as a mere source of iron and protein by natives.
Apparently, their alarming... |
29 November 2011
10:33 GMT |
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Around the winter holidays, the fashion industry is usually blooming. Unfortunately, profits still depend on the skin and fur of misfortunate creatures.
Right before the Christmas frenzy takes over, numerous PETA supporters from Anchorage, Alaska to Norfolk,Virginia, will try to convince a large segment of buyers t... |
29 November 2011
07:40 GMT |
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Just over Thanksgiving, Matt Damon almost stepped on PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)'s toes, when he was photographed at a bullfight in Mexico. He's since apologized, explaining why he was there in the first place. Damon and PETA go a long way back, but that's not to say the controve... |
29 November 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Indian Universities might no longer use animals dissections during classes. As modern technology provides a long list of advantages, old-school learning methods relying on the lives of unfortunate creatures could be replaced with computer simulations.
University Grants Commission (UGC) wants to make sure that every... |
25 November 2011
06:51 GMT |
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She’s angered many before when she spoke out on issues pertaining to animal cruelty, but Pink is now facing the toughest crowd of them all: Disney fans. Pink picked on Selena Gomez for using painted ponies in one of her most recent videos.Photos of Selena on the set of her latest video, for “Love You... |
21 May 2011
07:03 GMT |
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While animals are a common presence all over the planet today, things weren't always set up this way. In fact, more than 550 million years ago, there were no animals to speak of. Researchers are now investigating how the earliest complex lifeforms came to be.Scientists are now proposing that the first animals ma... |
18 May 2011
03:58 GMT |
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Increasingly often, studies are adding new evidence to theories suggesting that animals have personalities as well, and that these traits are similarly influential on their lives as our personalities are on our own. This was also the conclusion of the newest investigation on this issue, which was led by experts at th... |
28 April 2011
05:10 GMT |
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File this under “I have to see this to believe it”: one farmer claims he’s noticed his goats give more milk if he plays for them Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” so he has that song on a loop.
According to the Express, Angus of St Helen’s Farm in Seaton Ro... |
17 December 2010
09:11 GMT |
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Biologists now estimate that the last common ancestor between animals and plants lived more than a billion years ago, but they say that the two classes of lifeforms have maintained similar mechanisms of detecting pathogens such as microbes, bacteria and eukaryotes.These organisms are a tremendous threat to both plant... |
20 November 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Animal activists are fuming – and so are animal lovers – because of a new “product” made available on The Cheeky. For $4,000, the website offers the ultimate piggy bank: one made from a real piglet. The Cheeky is a website that professes to “challenge pointlessness” by ridiculing a... |
18 November 2010
13:31 GMT |
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The way that stock markets seem to react to crisis is just like plants and animals do, a new major study that could one day predict future financial events, suggests.The research was carried out by a team of academics led by Alexander Gorban, a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leicester, and incl... |
3 November 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Even though all animals have some sort of chemical sense, evolution has differentiated it depending on the eating habits of each species.Taste and smell are the oldest chemical senses and they are crucial as they help knowing if something is good to eat or not.Smell detects chemicals at a distance and can make many d... |
12 August 2010
06:48 GMT |
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Over the past few years, various research groups have shown that a large number of species exhibited personality traits, and also the ability to express and perceive emotions. This was evident for example when scientists determined that fish can feel pain. As the new knowledge accumulated, investigators started wonde... |
4 August 2010
02:21 GMT |
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It's no secret that one of the main selection mechanisms of evolution is competition. Within the same species, or between related species, competition is what drives the survival of the fittest, and the main source of potential mates for animals looking to produce offspring. Emerging from skirmishes unscathed is... |
12 May 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Former boxing champ will be the star of an upcoming reality show, so far tentatively called “Taking on Tyson.” Hosted on Animal Planet, the series will see Tyson, a longtime lover of pigeons, try his hand at pigeon racing by going against others who do this for a living. In a somewhat expected move, PETA ... |
16 March 2010
10:34 GMT |
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As life on Earth evolved, Mother Nature really went out of her way to make some species stand out from the crowd. Undoubtedly, each animal has something unique about it, a certain color, skill or other ability that it can put to good use to either survive, defend itself, or hunt other creatures. And while humans rema... |
13 March 2010
06:58 GMT |
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In a new paper appearing in the March issue of the respected Journal of General Virology, Japanese researchers from the Saga University reveal some of the secrets associated with how viral agents are able to move past the species barrier. This ability implies that viruses infecting one type of mammal can, for example... |
12 February 2010
16:11 GMT |
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While crickets, orangutans and whales indeed communicate differently, there is a common denominator between them, researchers say. A bird's chirp, a whale's clicks, and a primate's scream can be construed as different, but a new cross-species study has revealed that mathematical models can predict the ... |
6 January 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Scientists say that technology will soon advance to the point where it will be possible to grow meat inside labs, without the need for the actual living things that wear it for some time before being killed for it. Even now, it is possible to grow tiny nuggets of meat inside special laboratories around the world, but... |
19 November 2009
15:21 GMT |
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Metacognition, a mental process defined in essence as “thoughts about thoughts,” is something that experts have believed for a long time to be uniquely human. However, as it happens, new studies come to argue this established knowledge, and propose that other animals have it as well. University at Buffalo... |
16 September 2009
05:02 GMT |
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In most animal species in the world, the differences between members can be quite significant, which is to say that they lack consistency. However, in humans, that is not the case. Of course, exceptions to the rule exist, but, on average, we have the same general size, a fact that scientists have not yet been able to... |
2 September 2009
02:43 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of California in Davis (UCD) said as far back as 1951 that the use of powerful antibiotics as growth-promoting hormones in livestock meant for human consumption increased the incidence of antibiotic-resistant coliform bacteria, which could pose a very real threat to us. They gave the s... |
17 June 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Despite the fact that the Arctic regions have passed through numerous changes over the millennia, one thing has remained the same – the fact that they are left in darkness for six months each year. One would be inclined to think that this would not allow for the development of a large number of species there, b... |
8 June 2009
02:45 GMT |
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While for most people helping one another is just the right thing to do, when biologists observe this type of behavior in animal groups, they don't know what to make of it. According to the theory of evolution, all animals should be selfish, bent on satisfying their own selfish desires, and also in a constant st... |
28 May 2009
04:26 GMT |
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Since the beginning of time, people have been fascinated with the fact that animals living in large herds, troops, or packs showed obvious signs of intelligence. When science evolved, experts hypothesized that it was the very trait of living together as a society (sociality) that triggered such massive improvements i... |
26 May 2009
09:12 GMT |
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Tucuxi dolphins have been thus far looked at as being rather peaceful animals that have never demonstrated until now infanticide tendencies. Behaviors of this nature are seldom observed in animals such as dolphins or whales, with only two instances of infanticide beings registered over the years in bottlenose dolphin... |
18 May 2009
10:58 GMT |
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We aren't living in a perfect world, as it is host to a wide variety of cruelty acts. PETA, or People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, have fought for quite some time against cruelty to animals and have shown on numerous occasions that they aren't afraid to take on video games, for better or for worse. We... |
8 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Studies on the origin of life on Earth seem to point to the fact that the first complex creatures developed around the Equator, hundreds of millions of years ago. As they evolved, their range expanded, and migrations eventually led the animals to all corners of the world. And while they adapted to cooler temperatures... |
3 April 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Naturalists have known for a long time that different types of environments play a crucial part in the development of new species, as well as in the extinction of new ones. However, thus far, no one has been able to prove the contrary. Following a rigorous series of scientific experiments, experts from the University... |
2 April 2009
10:50 GMT |
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For more than a century, zoo keepers around the world have believed that growing animals in captivity implies nothing more than feeding them well and preventing them from exercising, so as not to injure themselves. Now, a growing number of animal experts and zoological garden owners feel that “animal enrichment... |
23 March 2009
07:04 GMT |
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Thus far, scientists and naturalists have known that female birds are the most picky living things when it comes to their mates, but have never suspected that the same behavior could be found in mammals as well. But recent investigations into the matter seem to yield very interesting conclusions, in that it actually ... |
18 March 2009
10:35 GMT |
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Although recent scientific studies have shown that wildlife in the contamination zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been recovering, the latest research in the field demonstrates the exact opposite. The paper reveals that the animal populations in the 30-kilometer (18-mile) exclusion zone around the ex... |
18 March 2009
07:55 GMT |
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Studying the secrets of wildlife has been one of the most dangerous tasks for scientists, and has gotten increasingly dangerous with the appearance of television channels dedicated to animals and nature. In addition to show hosts who just want their ratings to go up, real scientists, conducting thorough experiments o... |
10 March 2009
10:54 GMT |
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Over the next year or so, countless volunteers and scientists across the US will take their research outdoors, as part of a massive campaign of assessing the real influence that global warming and climate change have on the way seasonal plants grow and multiply. These measurements will have an increased significance ... |
5 March 2009
06:00 GMT |
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MoGeneration has announced Moo Shake, an animal-based puzzle game for iPhone and iPod touch. Kids from three to ten can enjoy an educational and interactive title that takes book matching into the 21st century, adding sound, movement, and the element of competition. MoGeneration contracted an award winning children&r... |
30 December 2008
03:44 GMT |
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One of the most iconic chimpanzee figures in the world, Gregoire lived some 40 years of his life caged in solitary confinement at the Brazzaville zoo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He was rescued from the poorly-run zoo some 11 years ago and lived the remainder of his life at the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee R... |
28 December 2008
09:38 GMT |
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American black bears that live next to urban sprawls are more prone to dying younger and more violently than those living in wild areas, where human-bear contact is limited. Also, their cubs mortality rate is several times higher than in the wild, due to common accidents, such as car collisions. A team of resear... |
1 October 2008
09:09 GMT |
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