Animals

World

How Americans Learned to Be Kinder to (Some) Animals

“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.

World

After Outlawing Public Zoos, Costa Rica Relocates Hundreds of Animals

Some of the animals will stay in sanctuaries, while others may be released into the wild.

World

Anxiety, Bedtime and Mating: How Animals May React to the Eclipse

When the total solar eclipse happens on Monday, pets, farm and zoo animals might act strange. Researchers can’t wait to…

World

India Zoo Official Gave Revered Names to 2 Lions. He Was Punished.

The names, Sita and Akbar, evoking a Hindu goddess and a Muslim emperor, drew outrage from Hindu activists who saw…

Magazine

Chimps Can Still Remember Faces After a Quarter Century

Long-term memories may have been vital to our own evolution, suggests a new study of chimpanzees and bonobos.

World

Colombia to Sterilize Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’

The drug kingpin brought four hippos to his estate in the 1980s. Officials estimate that about 170 now roam Colombia,…

World

The Truth About Your Bacon

We used to raise hogs on our family farm here, and to be honest I didn’t much like them. Defenders…

Health

Blood of Young Mice Extends Life in the Old

Infusions of youthful blood led older mice to live 6 to 9 percent longer, a new study found.

World

Saber-Tooth Cats and Dire Wolves Carried a Terrible Disease in Their Bones

Researchers say that evidence of osteochondrosis dissecans in the ice age predators offers insights to how they went extinct.

World

Peter Singer: The Simplest Way to Change the Planet’s Fate

MELBOURNE, Australia — The year of the first Earth Day, 1970, was the year I stopped eating meat. I didn’t…

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