Novice pet owners who adopted a dog or perhaps a cat during the extended lockdown in the UK because of the Covid pandemic are regretting… Read More »Nearly half of people aged 18-34 regret adopting a pet during Covid lockdown (UK)
This short video is testament to the resolve and durability combined with intelligence of the common rat. They will find a way to survive. And… Read More »High climbing rat travels on phone cable 11 floors up
The Times reports that fish can become addicted to drugs like people. Dr. Pavel Horky, from Prague, in the Journal of Experiment Biology, tells us… Read More »Trout can become hooked on drugs
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… Read More »The saying “treated worse than an animal” reveals humankind’s deplorable relationship with animals
You may have read about the murder of a police community support officer, Julia James, in woodland in Kent while walking her Jack Russell dog.… Read More »Was the murder of a police community support officer a botched dog theft?
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.… Read More »Mammals: 96% are livestock and humans, 4% are wild animals
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… Read More »Ethics surrounding creating chimera inside monkeys
Rupert Grint, the Harry Potter star, wants to develop a barn on his estate into three new three-bedroom homes. He withdrew a previous application to… Read More »Rupert Grint upsets residents with plan to turn barn into 3 houses
It is time to stop describing bad human behaviour as the behaviour of animals. We all know the saying, “He behaved like an animal”. Today,… Read More »Leaders should stop saying people ‘behave like animals’
It has been suggested that allegedly Ryan Fischer conspired with the two guys who stole Lady Gaga’s dogs to fake a robbery with the intention… Read More »Was the robbery of Lady Gaga’s dogs from Ryan Fischer a conspiracy to defraud?
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… Read More »Freshwater fish suffer catastrophic decline due to dams
If the environment is being harmed then so are animals. And if people are responsible for that harm then this article is about the animal-human… Read More »Bitcoin is helping to destroy the environment
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… Read More »Hunter-gatherers mirror the behaviour of mammals and birds in the same area
A study titled: Shell mineralogy of a foundational marine species, Mytilus californianus, over half a century in a changing ocean, researched the effect, over a… Read More »Acid seas makes the shells of mussels weaker
Animal rights were and are inherently benefited by Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for human rights. The two go hand-in-hand. It’s not surprising because the… Read More »Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for human rights benefited animal rights
Thieves have plundered the carcasses of sperm whales washed up on the English coast. It’s happened five times. The latest appears to be a 10-tonne… Read More »Thieves cut off jawbone of stranded sperm whale
Currently, if a person wishes to claim that they have caught a fish which is a record weight in Britain the catch has to be… Read More »British fishing records to be accepted under video evidence rather than witnessed
COMMENT: This is very questionable but I acccept it. In the UK people have to remain at home during the current lockdown because the NHS… Read More »Fishing considered to be exercise under UK Covid-19 lockdown
A survey has found that the calving rate of humpback whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence off Canada has halved in the past 15… Read More »Is climate change causing failed pregnancies in humpback whales?
This is the origin of the word ‘pony’. I have created a flow chart to explain the origin and evolution of the English word ‘pony’… Read More »Origin of the word ‘pony’