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Animals in the News 27 Aug 2013 | 02:04 pm
by Gregory McNamee Lobsters don’t feel pain, and that’s why it’s all right to throw them into pots of boiling water. Correct? Probably not. On August 7, a researcher at Queen’s University Belfast, Rob...
Elephant Poaching 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
by Richard Pallardy Our thanks to the editors of the Britannica Book of the Year (BBOY) and author Richard Pallardy—Encyclopædia Britannica Research Editor and frequent Advocacy for Animals contributo...
Primates Are Not Pets! 23 Aug 2013 | 03:04 pm
by Will Travers — Our thanks to Born Free USA for permission to republish this post, which originally appeared on the Born Free USA Blog on August 20, 2013. Travers is Chief Executive Officer of Born ...
Action Alert from the National Anti-Vivisection Society 22 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
Each week, the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called Take Action Thursday, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a na...
Pig Wrestling: Small Injustices Enable Larger Ones 21 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
by Kathleen Stachowski — Our thanks to Animal Blawg, where this post originally appeared on August 13, 2013. “So delighted to find you folks upon googling,” the message begins. It arrived at my webmai...
Who Am I? 21 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
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Animals in the News 20 Aug 2013 | 02:05 pm
by Gregory McNamee Why should it be that the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge is seeing a 40 percent decline in the number of Arctic terns passing through its confines in the last ten ye...
Of Mournful Elephants and Sorrowful Chimpanzees 19 Aug 2013 | 02:04 pm
Five Questions for Animal-Grief Scholar Barbara J. King by Gregory McNamee Humans, Mark Twain once famously observed, are the only animals that blush—or need to. But are we? Animal behaviorists are in...
Standing Up for State Laws 16 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
by Michael Markarian Our thanks to Michael Markarian, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund (HSLF), for permission to republish this post, which originally appeared on his blog Animals & Po...
Action Alert from the National Anti-Vivisection Society 15 Aug 2013 | 08:31 pm
Each week, the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called Take Action Thursday, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a na...
