human animal relationship

Fish can navigate on land

Fish have learned to navigate a vehicle on land in exchange for a reward. The video I think explains the test and the study nicely. I...

January 6, 2022 by MikeB Marine wildlife 0

Wise senior male elephants keep aggressive youngsters in order

Senior male elephants in an all-male group keep the younger males in order and stop them interacting aggressively with humans

Research has clearly indicated that senior males in a group of males serve a useful purpose in keeping the younger members of the group in order....

December 22, 2021 by MikeB Elephants 0

Planet of the Apes NOW! Enraged monkeys kill 250 dogs and attack people

Monkey takes small dog to the top of a building to throw it off to kill it.

NEWS AND COMMENT-MAHARASHTRA, INDIA: In Majalgaon and Lavul village in the state of Maharashtra, India, enraged monkeys are taking revenge on the street dogs by carrying...

December 22, 2021 by MikeB Monkeys 0

Woman-to-cow relationship is a lesson

Close relationship between cow and women is instructional

This is a repeating short video without sound: a gif. I’ve decided that it is a lesson to us all. Close interspecies friendships take many forms....

October 1, 2021 by MikeB Uncategorized 0

Canned fish from Russia

Some of the Reddit comments: In soviet Russia canned fish eats you! Looks like that fish came from Chernobyl. SOME MORE ON MARINE WILDLIFE: Post Views:...

September 4, 2021 by MikeB Marine wildlife

Raw dog food may kill

Raw dogfood is being criticised and it has been criticised in the past. The same goes for raw cat food. But advocates of home-made raw foods...

July 12, 2021 by MikeB Food production 0

The saying “treated worse than an animal” reveals humankind’s deplorable relationship with animals

Bangladeshi woman was treated worse than an animal when subjected to a virginity test

OPINION: There is a story out today on the Internet about virginity testing in the UK. It’s being forced on young women to protect their “honour”....

July 3, 2021 by MikeB Humans 2

Do goats lick their human caretaker out of affection or for the salt in their sweat?

The words accompanying this video are that the goats are licking this woman out of affection. I have no doubt, by the way, that the goats...

May 18, 2021 by MikeB Uncategorized

Snake wraps itself around my friend’s hair

An interesting photograph from Reddit.com. The photograph is both interesting and a little disturbing at the same time. The snake looks like a hair accessory of...

April 25, 2021 by MikeB Snakes

Covid-like virus RhGB01 found in British bats

Horseshoe bat in UK carries Covid-like virus

A new coronavirus which is similar to Covid-19 and which has been labelled RhGB01 has been found in British bats by Ivana Murphy a University of...

April 25, 2021 by MikeB Zoonotic

Mammals: 96% are livestock and humans, 4% are wild animals

Statistics about humans on Earth are shocking

Some of the statistics gathered together and collated by Professor Ron Milo at the Weizmann Inst of Science in Israel and his team are staggering. Humans...

April 24, 2021 by MikeB Humans

Humans need a test for animal consciousness

We need a proper test for consciousness in animals

Humans are learning that animals are smarter than we thought they were. This is leading to greater sensitivity and respect towards animals but it is an...

April 17, 2021 by MikeB Intelligence

Ethics surrounding creating chimera inside monkeys

Is Planet of the Apes going to become a reality?. Scientists have created early embryos that are part human and part macaque monkey. They did this...

April 16, 2021 by MikeB Humans 0

Another UK prison employs animals to benefit the health of their inmates

This is another report about domestic animals being introduced into UK prisons to benefit the welfare of the inmates (click this for another report). The policy...

April 6, 2021 by MikeB Humans

Freshwater fish suffer catastrophic decline due to dams

Beluga sturgeon in rapid decline because of dam building for electrical power for humans

Because of dam building, freshwater fish are in catasrophic decline. It is more black nature news. David Attenborough recently said that we should try and present...

February 23, 2021 by MikeB Conservation

Vet busts myth that 1 human year is 7 dog years

Vet busts myth about dog-human age equivalence

Vet busts myth on dog-human age equivalence: @dr.hunterfinn♬ Steven Universe – L.Dre Note: sometimes embedded videos like the one above stop working over time. If that...

February 23, 2021 by MikeB Canine Health

Lifejackets allow goldfish to float properly again

Buoyancy jackets for fish with swim bladder disease

Here are a couple of photographs of golfish suffering from swim bladder disease wearing corrective lifejackets. In fish the swim bladder (gas bladder) is an internal...

February 16, 2021 by MikeB Marine wildlife

Hunter-gatherers mirror the behaviour of mammals and birds in the same area

The human is the human-animal. We need to remind ourselves of that. It is unsurprising, therefore, that scientists have concluded that human beings who live as...

January 15, 2021 by MikeB Humans