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 speak highly of it in terms of animal welfare and health. The problem is that it harbours pathogens which …
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”. My reading of the story is that parents from the Bangladeshi, Pakistani and other ethnic minority communities from Asia, …
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 have a lot of affection for this woman. I have a strong sense that she is a good person …
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 some sort but it’s not! All in all a very strange photograph which needs to be published. I must …
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 East Anglia student while working on her dissertation. There are fears that if a person transmitted Covid-19 to a …
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 represent 0.01% of all life on the planet but they have destroyed 83% of wild mammals. They’ve destroyed half …
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 incredibly slow process. There are some remarkable stories of animal intelligence. However, does this translate to self-awareness or self-consciousness? …
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 in order to better understand how human cells and animal cells communicate with each other. The long-term goal is …
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 is based upon the known fact that interacting with animals helps to calm people and it also helps people …
