boredom

Jelani a gorilla at Louisville Zoo enjoys a vide shown to him by Lindsey Costello

“Parental controls” on videos shown to gorillas by visitors at Toronto Zoo

This is an interesting development. It is one which demonstrates the intrusion of social media into the “natural world” (Ha ha). We know how people can be addicted to social media videos and postings. It’s so bad that it is affecting the streaming services like Netflix and Amazon prime. This addiction is proving detrimental to …

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The kind of enriched environment I envisage for domestic cats confined to the home

Strong trend in Australia to keep domestic cats inside full-time has a big DEFECT

Once again, we are told that Australia is changing the face of cat domestication in order to protect their native species, often their small native mammals which are particularly vulnerable to domestic cat predation. This is because historically they never had to deal with cat predation and therefore, they have not armed themselves against it. …

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Stereotypical horse behaviors in stables due to stress

Stereotypical behaviours by horses in stables is obviously due to boredom causing stress (video)

It seems extraordinary to me that at one point in time perhaps not that long ago so-called experts in horse behaviour did not have the common sense to understand that when a horse behaves in a stereotypical way as seen in the video that they are bored and stressed (ruling out health issues). To me, …

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Two useful tags. Click either to see the articles: Speciesism - 'them and us' | Cruelty - always shameful

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