Rats Cut Deals and Trade Different Favors With One Another
MARC BEKOFF: 'Different forms of cooperation are common among many nonhuman animals... Observations of individuals of different species show that…
Florida school shooting: No one cared when the victims were “just animals” (but God did)
9NEWS: 'The 19-year-old arrested after a horrific school shooting in the US that killed at least 17 people posed with weapons online and boasted about…
Gone astray: EVERY DAY, more than 9,000 dogs and cats are euthanized in US shelters
JESSICA VILLAGOMEZ: 'Chicago is not a good place to be a stray cat. According to a Freedom of Information Act request, Chicago Animal Care and Control…
Horrific animal suffering revealed at farm used by producer of Spanish sausages sold on Amazon
JANE DALTON: 'Horrific conditions of animal suffering have been revealed at a farm that supplied a brand of Spanish sausages that were sold in…
White Coat Waste Project’s Anthony Bellotti calls animal testing ‘taxpayer-funded torture.’ He got the FDA to listen
BOB TEDESCHI: 'In 1995, when Anthony Bellotti was 17 and slogging through a summer internship in an animal research lab, he was struck not by how the…
FDA reviewing animal studies in wake of monkey deaths
JAQUELINE HOWARD: 'A decision by the US Food and Drug Administration to shut down a nicotine addiction study has stirred debate about what the future…
What Is Virginia Commonwealth University Doing to the Animals?
A. BARTON HINKLE: 'Last year stories about painful experiments on dogs conducted at the McGuire VA Medical Center came to light—prompting legislation…
More than a quarter of UK dinners have no meat or fish
BBC: 'More than a quarter of all evening meals in the UK are vegan or vegetarian, research shows. In the 12 weeks to the end of January, 29% of them…
Seeing the Sad Animals at America’s Worst Aquarium Broke My Heart
JAMIE LEE CURTIS TAETE: 'The Morro Bay Aquarium, on California's Central Coast, is scheduled to close in September of this year... One Yelp user…
Whale learning to speak human words is a ‘circus act’ to distract from the cruelty of her captivity
ALEXANDRA MA: 'Wikie, a 16-year-old orca in France, made headlines... after audio was released showing that she'd learned how to mimic human speech.…