Before humans milked cows, herded goats or raised hogs, before they invented agriculture, or written language, before they had permanent homes, and most certainly before they had cats, they had dogs. Or dogs had them, depending on how you view… Read More »The Evolution of Dog
For a place often associated with confinement, suffering and death, the city animal shelter in Manhattan was a pretty happy spot last Friday afternoon, at least in the backyard. A half-dozen pit bull mixes chased one another across an asphalt… Read More »Dog Shelters in New York
What Can You Do Help the Poor Bustard? Designate well-protected core breeding areas, where the bustards’ ecological needs are factored in with low-intensity livelihood concerns Enlist support of local communities and all the relevant departments Conserve grasslands. Curtail detrimental infrastructure… Read More »The Poor Bustard in India
Veterinary doctors who should have their licences taken away combined their brains with those of forest officers and decided that the only way to get rid of the “monkey menace” was to sterilize the monkeys as well. Unfortunately, this is… Read More »What to Do with the Stray Monkeys?
By Maneka Gandhi If you meditate properly, over a period of time you can develop parts of your brain to do things that normal people can’t do: see amazing colors, listen to ethereal music, travel to different places while your… Read More »Many Animals Have Powers That Humans Will Kill to Attain
Juan F. Masello never intended to study wild parrots. Twenty years ago, as a graduate student visiting the northernmost province of Patagonia in Argentina, he planned to write his dissertation on colony formation among seabirds. But when he asked around for… Read More »Parrots
By Frans de Waalapril Tickling a juvenile chimpanzee is a lot like tickling a child. The ape has the same sensitive spots: under the armpits, on the side, in the belly. He opens his mouth wide, lips relaxed, panting audibly… Read More »What I Learned From Tickling Apes
By Justin E. H. Smith Homo sapiens has long sought to set itself apart from animals — that is, apart from every other living species. One of the most enduring attempts to define humanity in a way that distances us from… Read More »We Are Not the Only Political Animals
Opelika and Lily, yellow Labrador retrievers, are part of the Canine Performance Sciences Program at Auburn University, which breeds and trains dogs to use their powerful sense of smell to keep people safe. After a year of preparation, Opelika will probably… Read More »Training Dogs to Sniff Narcotics, Explosives & IEDs
Snowflake never saw it coming. She was a 3-month-old Maltese puppy, fluffy, white and adorable. She had a home, her life was just getting started, and then she broke her leg. It should have been a quick fix but her… Read More »How Can You Abandon Your Pet?
