Can Animals Predict Earthquakes? Italian Farm Animal Study Looks to Find The Answer
PIEVE TORINA, Italy — After a series of powerful earthquakes struck Italy last year, Martin Wikelski rushed here to test a hunch that has tantalized scientists and thinkers for millenniums: Can animals anticipate natural disasters? A German scientist, Mr. Wikelski tagged several animals on a farm in Pieve Torina in the Marches region of central Italy in October to monitor … Continue reading
Ancestors of Drug-Resistant Superbugs Were Around Well Before the Dinosaurs Age
Leading hospital “superbugs,” known as enterococci, originated well before the age of dinosaurs, a new study said Thursday. These pathogens arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years, about the time when animals were first crawling onto land, according to the study published in the U.S. journal Cell. The findings may help better understand the evolution of antibiotic … Continue reading
Everyone Should See This Side of Cows, A Heart-Warming Video
This is a heart warming video of cows that were set free after a long winter season. Cows should be free to roam in large fields, and be completely free. Looking at the emotional response of excitement in this video is very heart warming. Although it’s nice that science has finally recognized the consciousness of animals, it’s something we already … Continue reading
Are Humans Losing Even Basic Levels of Empathy
Non-Human Animals Show Empathy. What Happened To Ours? According to Wikipedia, Empathy is defined as: the capacity to understand or feel what another being (a human or non-human animal) is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s position. In my recent research on animals, I’ve come across interesting concepts and … Continue reading
6-Month-Old Kitten Turns On Faucet, Floods Animal Shelter in Florida
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — A cat came with a flood warning when it was adopted from a Florida animal shelter. Officials at the Florida Humane Society in Pompano Beach told the Miami Herald that one of its cats turned on a faucet last week, leaving the water to run for 17 hours. President Carol Ebert says the flooding caused water … Continue reading
‘Captivity is Degrading’: Why a Major City is Shutting Down its Zoo
The Argentinian capital has hosted a zoo for more than 140 years. But that’s coming to an end, Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announced this week, as he unveiled plans to transform the facility into an ecological park. “This situation of captivity is degrading for the animals, it’s not the way to take care of them,” he said Thursday, … Continue reading
Russia’s Monkeys-to-Mars Mission Draws PETA Protest
The word from Russia is that the country wants to send monkeys to the Red Planet by 2017. But waving the red flag on such a plan are the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). A few months ago, it was reported that researchers from the Russian Academy of Science are busy training four macaque monkeys to make … Continue reading
