Dolphins have to shout at each other when trying to communicate as underwater noise has increased substantially because of increased human activity over the past decades. Sound travels well underwater which exacerbates the problem. In preindustrial times the oceans were much quieter than they are …
The firework season is upon us. Poor us and the same goes for our dogs 😢. Dogs are more sensitive than cats to fireworks and cats are very sensitive to them. Personally, I hate fireworks so I must have been a dog in my former …
NEWS AND COMMENT: A Yorkshire woman, Samantha Flower, 44, living in the city of York, has lost her council home because she allowed her Jack Russell terriers to bark relentlessly for four years despite numerous complaints and orders to try and force her to control …
Sowerby’s beaked whales have been found stranded and dead on the Lothian coast and northern bottlenose whales have suffered the same fate, one at Stornoway in the Western Isles and two in the Clyde sea lochs . Marine experts believe that they had died from …
This is a moan. Although, I think a lot of people would sympathise. Some foxes used to live about three houses down from me. They used to travel along a right of way behind my house. I fed them. I did it surreptitiously in case …
Traffic noise in cities means that birds sing more loudly than they would normally and with less variety in their song. Prof Derryberry from the University Of Tennessee said in the journal Science that the behavior is similar to that of people at a cocktail …
