NASCAR driver Suarez finds calm at animal sanctuary ahead of Michigan race
Before driving 200 miles per hour in a bid to qualify for the NASCAR Cup Series on Saturday evening, driver Daniel Suárez took the morning to clear his head through his other passion: animals.
‘It shatters my heart’: the fosters taking care of stressed former lab beagles
In May, 1,500 beagles were released from Ridglan Farms, a breeding and bioresearch facility near Madison, Wisconsin. The event made headlines. Soon, a deluge of tear-jerking videos followed, showing the lab beagles experiencing the outside world for the first time. Millions of people watched the dogs touching grass and instinctively paddling their paws at the […]
Scientists may have finally figured out how pigeons are so good at directions
Humans have been using pigeons to send messages across long distances for thousands of years, thanks to their remarkable sense of direction. According to new research published in the journal Science, we may have been looking for the source of that ability in the wrong organ. There was a simple logic to scientists assuming the […]
World’s largest scorpion had 6-inch pincers, and prowled UK land and waters 415 million years ago
Enigmatic 415 million-year-old fossils belong to a giant scorpion that may have reached lengths of around 3 feet (1 meter), a remarkable body size because most life on land at that time was small. The prehistoric creature, named Praearcturus gigas, is estimated to have grown to lengths of around 3.3 feet (1 meter) and was […]
‘They surprise me every time’: bees can use tools to solve problems, study finds
Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that demonstrate their remarkably advanced cognitive abilities. The bees were given an adapted version of an experiment that, 100 years ago, first demonstrated chimpanzees could work out how to retrieve an out-of-reach banana by stacking boxes.
Why Jews are rising up against factory farming
So often, human exploitation and animal exploitation are linked. Conditions in mega-farms are often dangerous. Urged by high demand, workers are compelled to work long shifts in facilities without adequate hygiene, some even denying employees bathroom breaks. What’s more, a growing body of evidence suggests that the psychological strain of witnessing and participating in such […]
Mule deer become first animals to use California’s first wildlife crossing
Three mule deer have become the first animals to walk over California’s first wildlife crossing, which is nearing completion in Siskiyou County, according to the UC Davis Road Ecology Center and the California Department of Transportation.
‘To them a power line is a line of trees’: Costa Rica moves to protect howler monkeys from electrocution
Peque, a small black howler monkey, scratches her head as she sits on a thick wooden branch in a wired enclosure with seven other orphaned baby howler monkeys at a rescue centre in Nosara, on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.
6 Nevada wild horses show up in Texas kill pens, and rescue group points to a pattern
Six 3-year-old horses born in Nevada could be headed for slaughter by the end of the week, according to a group that advocates for enforcement of federal wild horse protection laws. Five of the horses were captured in Bureau of Land Management roundups and came from a highly publicized prison program that trains horses. The […]
San Francisco turns to AI to save whales from ship strikes as deaths soar
Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay on Tuesday as a whale surfaced nearby, its spout barely visible against the white caps. Until now, whales could easily go unnoticed by mariners, but an AI-powered detection network launched this week is designed to track them day and night.
Salmon farm faces new cruelty claims as Trump seeks to supersize fish farming
The Trump administration is keen to do to fish what has been done to chickens—mass-produce them on an industrial scale to accelerate the U.S.’s output of seafood. But this “chickenification” of fish may come at a hefty cost to the environment and to the fish themselves.
Trump administration relaxing hunting restrictions in U.S. parks and refuges
Trump’s administration is quietly pushing national park, refuge, and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions, raising questions about visitor safety and the impact on wildlife.
