In America there is a shortage of rhesus macaque monkeys for animal testing purposes. There was a shortage years before the coronavirus pandemic but now US research centres are saying that there are not enough to go around and there is huge pressure on developing …
The New Guinea singing dog is very rare. Apparently there are only 250 in captivity and all of them have been bred from two or eight (the information is unclear) foundation dogs which were captured in the 1970s. It is not clear to the experts …
In the Mediterranean Sea there are an estimated 3,000 fin whales and 2,000 sperm whales. Tethys is a whale monitoring charity. A spokeswoman for the charity, Maddalena Jahoda, said that they have a list of 143 whales spotted in the Mediterranean with scars and injuries …
EGYPT – RED SEA COAST – 100-200 BC: The remains of pet monkeys, “sleeping like children”, have been uncovered in an ancient seaport of Egypt on the west coast of the Red Sea founded by Plotemy II in 275 BC. Archaeologists from Warsaw’s University Centre …
I have asked the question in the title because a horse-drawn barge business run by Jenny Roberts has closed after cruelty claims. After 35 years of operating, Jenny Roberts who owns a 1935 narrowboat called Iona has closed her business, the Goldaming Packetboat Company, and …
The Times newspaper tells me that fishing is catching on with the stars, the celebrities and the Z listers. It appears that the coronavirus pandemic has been a catalyst to the increasing numbers of anglers in the UK. The furlough scheme gave us millions of …
ANALYSIS: It’s about time. It is said that when a living lobster is placed into boiling water it screams in pain. As I recall, it’s been proved that they do. And there’s no reason why they shouldn’t feel pain. They are sentient beings. Fish feel …
Tonight, on BBC1 at 7 PM, Mary Berry, the television cook and former Great British Bake Off judge, will say on Countryfile: “I’ve always loved animals. We had pigs and the little runt that was always left out, I used to whip away. I had …
NEWS AND OPINION: I can say with confidence and without any possibility of defamation that an animal testing laboratory in or near Hamburg, Germany called Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) was found to be treating animals barbarically and they were kept in appalling conditions. …
