You’ve probably read about the abundant helpful uses of coconut oil that range from nutritional benefits to household remedies and body care. But, did you know that coconut oil can also benefit your pets? When I was trying to put extra weight on my labs, Sanchez and Gina, I frequently fed them a tablespoon of […]
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society supporters Richard Dean Anderson and Holly Marie Combs are lending their names as producers on the company’s crowd-funded documentary feature Why Just One? The documentary follows Sea Shepherd’s 2015 sea turtle defense campaign, Operation Jairo, which took place in Honduras, Florida and Costa Rica. Why Just One? focuses specifically on the […]
A day after Thai officials found the bodies of 40 tiger cubs frozen in a freezer inside the country’s infamous tiger temple, more disturbing news has emerged from the Buddhist monastery. Three Buddhist monks and two devotees of the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua temple, located in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi Province, were charged under wildlife laws Thursday after one […]
Many people worldwide already know about the shooting of a 17-year-old male western lowland gorilla named Harambe at the Cincinnati Zoo to save the life of a four-year old child who fell into the gorilla’s cage. The boy apparently told his mother he wanted to meet Harambe and crawled under a rail and over the wall of the moat. Many […]
Despite how adorable Dory is in Pixar’s Finding Dory, you shouldn’t go out and try to buy your own Dory right after seeing the movie. Pacific Blue Tangs, Dory’s species, aren’t the easiest pets to take care of and the demand for them can destroy coral reefs. Currently 100,000 to 150,000 Pacific Blue Tangs are […]
[Editor’s Note: Leading primatologist Frans de Waal weighs in on the controversy surrounding the shooting and killing of a rare gorilla Saturday at the Cincinnati Zoo to save a 4-year-old boy that slipped into the animal’s enclosure.] Harambe at the Cincinnati Zoo. Photo credit: Cincinnati Zoo I find it very hard to decide what the Cincinnati Zoo […]
Officials at the Cincinnati Zoo shot and killed a rare gorilla Saturday after a four-year-old boy slipped into its enclosure. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNBCNews%2Fvideos%2Fvb.155869377766434%2F1400082936678399%2F%3Ftype%3D3&show_text=0&width=560 expand=1] The zoo said the situation was “life-threatening” so it took action and shot the 400lb gorilla. “Tranquilizers do not take effect for several minutes, and the child was in imminent danger,” Thane Maynard, director […]
The giant squid is an elusive and mysterious animal that scientists are trying to learn more about. One statistical ecologist has made an attempt to estimate the range in size of these deep-sea creatures, but others don’t agree with the findings. The largest giant squid ever found measured 59 feet long and weighed almost a […]
By Stephen Wells “Progressive Farming. Family Style.” It sounds like the slogan of a brand you could trust to adopt a forward thinking business style and embrace the public’s growing consideration of animal welfare in animal agriculture, but a new undercover investigation blows that idyllic family farm image out of the water. The undercover investigation […]
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