34 animal rights activists to face court over trespass claims
COLIN BETTLES: 'More than 30 animal rights activists are set to face trespass charges in court... following a mass raid and pro-vegan protest at a…
Video of Bolingo the gorilla doing handstands in a zoo branded ‘irresponsible’
JANE DALTON: 'Animal-welfare experts have condemned an entertainment park for teaching a gorilla to do handstands. Video of Bolingo copying his…
Exposed: Drugs, Near Drowning, and Electric Shocks in ‘Child Abuse’ Experiments
PETA: 'The University of Delaware's Tania Roth claims that she studies child abuse. But her experiments are all about making vulnerable and…
Humans have killed off most of Earth’s big mammals. In 200 years, cows could be biggest ones left.
DOYLE RICE: 'Throughout history, humans and their ancestors have perfected the art of killing big animals. Now, a new study finds that as humans…
Chained, beaten, whipped and exploited like slaves: The hidden horrors of India’s temple elephants
JANE DALTON: 'When Audrey Gaffney first read about Raju, an elephant kept in chains with spikes embedded in his ankles, she couldn’t stop the tears…
Is Leonardo Da Vinci the Forefather of the Animal Rights Movement?
ZACHARY TOLIVER: 'Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath, known just as much for his extraordinary artwork as for his scientific…
Human-mouse hybrid: Scientists grow human brain in tiny rodent
SEAN MARTIN: 'For the first ever time miniature human brains have grown in a new species and scientists have suggested the breakthrough could help…
Controversial plans to grow human organs inside animals set to go ahead in Japan
STEPHEN MATTHEWS: 'Controversial plans to grow human organs inside the bodies of animals have moved one step closer to going ahead in Japan...…
Chinese tourists murder kangaroo, hurling bricks to make it hop
AFP: 'Visitors to a zoo in southeastern China killed one kangaroo and injured another by throwing bricks at them in an attempt to get a reaction…
Choosing Animals Over People?
NICHOLAS KRISTOF: 'Are we betraying our own species when we write checks to help gorillas (or puppies or wild horses)? Is it wrongheaded to fight…