Animals
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Books
How Americans Learned to Be Kinder to (Some) Animals
“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.
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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.
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US
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 see what happens when day quickly turns to night.
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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 it as blasphemy.
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Science
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.
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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, and say the population must be controlled to protect the country’s ecosystem.
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Newyork
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 of farm animals sometimes compare pigs to dogs, but our hogs didn’t display any canine-style affection and instead were grouchy, whiny, strong-willed ...
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News
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.
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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.
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Newyork
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 do it to save the Earth, but because I realized that there is no ethical justification for treating animals like machines for converting feed ...