Novak Djokovic is a dog lover. My research does not tell me that he is a generalist animal lover but he is sensitive to his dogs’ welfare which indicates that he is sensitive to animal welfare. He has a couple of toy poodles called Pierre …
OPINION: For me, there is a link between what I perceive as a quite dramatic increase in the desire of people to buy nostalgic products and the fact that twice as many young people compared to 2010 are too sick to work in the UK. …
Location: Balneário Camboriú, a coastal city in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. Model Caroline Werner complained after she was arrested by the police for strolling down a busy beach side street entirely topless with her two dogs. It appears that she had removed …
In The Times today, there’s an article with the title, “Four meals away from anarchy”. It jogged my memory because I watched a film yesterday, Leave the World Behind, which is currently in the news media and which stars one of my favourite actresses, Julia …
Humans are putting the planet under great stress as indicated by the world’s vital signs. The news today is that life on Earth is under siege from humans according to scientists and as reported in The Independent newspaper. We know about the record temperatures such …
On social media there are millions of videos of dogs attacking people and other dogs or cats. Some of them were captured by security cameras. Many were captured by bystanders or acquaintances with a smart phone. And in other instances, videos of animal abuse are …
There is quite a lot of discussion on the Internet about whether companion animals can be gay and looking wider to all other animals it is an interesting thought as to whether they can be ‘gay’ as is the case in humans. Some recent research …
NEWS AND COMMENT: The Times today reports that one in six British species face extinction with some bright spots amid the gloom in respect of the Eurasian Beaver, Red Kite and Cartilage lichen. The environmental editor of the newspaper tells us that one in five …
A lot of people think that humankind will likely be extinct well before the end of the next 250 million years. However, a new scientific research project published in the journal Nature Geoscience ran computer simulations to predict future climatic conditions and the positions of …
