In the US, Thanksgiving this year is Thursday 24th November. It’s a time to roast and carve up the turkey. The problem is that turkeys… Read More »PETA says some turkeys love cuddling and The Gentle Barn promotes it
Dog owners are more likely to anthropomorphise their pets than cat owners according to a study as long ago as 1968. This is hardly surprising… Read More »Is this how you see your dog?
What do you think? All I can say is that, for me, this is a charming video. The woman says that her rats make a… Read More »Did my rat really just drag me closer so she could give me a kiss and climb my arm?
Joar Berge (moustache_farmer) is an unusual farmer. He forms very close relationships with his animals and in this video, we see him with a bull… Read More »Cow farmer in deep emotional bond with one of his bulls
NEWS AND COMMENT-LONDON, UK: Louisa Connolly-Burnham is an actress who has featured in hit shows such as Call the Midwife. She has a successful TikTok… Read More »Louisa Connolly-Burnham befriends a fox and she loves the relationship
It is International Day for Biological Diversity and people ask what is commensalism. The search engine, Bing, has an example on the home page today… Read More »Commensalism: cattle egret eats insects stirred up by grazing Burchell’s zebra
A classic cat/horse relationship of which there are many. Cats and horses go together despite the huge barrier of size-difference. This makes nuzzling and snuggling… Read More »Cat and horse nuzzle and snuggle each other
Unlike domestic cats, domestic dogs have a face-full of fast twitch muscles which enable them to have expressive faces and rapid barks. Their bark is… Read More »Dogs’ facial fast twitch muscles provides them with expressions which entice us
Coolest little frog in the jungle. Or maybe he/she is a toad. I have no idea. I don’t have any information about the video except… Read More »Frog rides on the back of a large yellow snake in India
This is strange because the moose was very friendly initially. But the animal was looking for food treats. It seems it was habituated to getting… Read More »Moose attacks child tourist at Russian National Park
Phil Sesemann did very well in the London Marathon last weekend. He was the fastest British runner and, in fact, he was the fastest white… Read More »Spaniel does 20-mile marathons with his owner Phil Sesemann
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… Read More »Woman-to-cow relationship is a lesson
A brilliant example of the sentience of animals and how they form interspecies friendships. Humans should be cognisant of this aspect of the animal world.… Read More »Goat charges in and saves chicken from attacking hawk
An amazing video. These two have a very close relationship. It looks absolutely genuine and awesome. The sloth does the best he/she can to pet… Read More »Rescued sloth tenderly pets and cuddles beagle friend
The dog’s owner said that their golden retriever had the job of protecting their apple trees from deer who enjoyed eating the apples but it… Read More »Deer and golden retriever play together
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… Read More »Do goats lick their human caretaker out of affection or for the salt in their sweat?
When I saw this photograph I thought of another similar situation. It concerns a Netflix documentary called My Octopus Teacher, which I have not seen.… Read More »Octopus wanted to hug female diver off Oahu, Hawaii
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… Read More »Another UK prison employs animals to benefit the health of their inmates
Well, the answer is pretty obvious and that is that camels can be dangerous. It’s an interesting discussion because we see camels as work animals.… Read More »Are camels dangerous?
Aggressive squirrels are attacking NYC residents and the concerning aspect of this behaviour is that, at the moment, people are unsure why. The lady in… Read More »Aggressive squirrels are attacking NYC residents