Japan likes aquatic mammals from eating whales and dophins to watching them, as do many people from around the world, performing tricks in zoos and aquariums. Dolphins at Kinosaki Marine World have had to put their...
Federal wildlife officials have asked a judge to put endangered gray wolves in the Northern Rockies back on the endangered species list, which goes against the government's previous ruling that the animals were...
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I am always made aware of the plight of many dogs on the street in the Philippines, its normal us the pet loving foriegner that moan about badly treated dogs and cats that roam the streets and country side. Yet I...
Wild boar live in various places across Britain and their numbers are rising. These boar are not native to the UK but are related to animals that escaped from captivity or were deliberatly released. They have no real...
Looks like worries of an epidemic of Spinal Tap style spontaneous human combustions is out of the question for Californians. A shocking report is released by journal Environmental Science &...
Two baby orangutans and a lion cub have fallen ill after consuming Chinese Sanlu milk contaminated with melamine. After hearing about the mik scandal which has killed 4 Chinese babies and sickened over 53,000...
Illegal wildlife trade is punishable with two to five years in prison under Brazilian laws. See also: Brazil : Zero Deforestation in Seven Years Brazil halts Amazon road work to create reserves One Quarter of...
The snow leopard, amongst many other animals, is listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and listed as Endangered on the U.S. Endangered...
This speech is about you..........and your family.........and your work...........and your world ! Just listen six minutes to this girl of only 12 years and what she tells about the world, hunger, the future. About...
A new study which examined existing fossil records has found that human fingers and toes did not develop in tetrapods 365 million years ago as they crawled from the sea onto land, but 380 million years ago within a...
Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld is being honoured by the Steiff Company, maker of stuffed animals, with a namesake teddy bear. The bear will be dressed in the designers signature white-collared shirt and black tie. The...
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RFID tags are radio frequency identification tags, which are sometimes referred to on the Web as "ARPHIDs." If you are a citizen of the USA, you either have one of these in your passport now, or you will have one in your new passport. In Europe (sorry, not sure about Canada)...
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A young polar bear is sitting in the brown tundra in November. No signs of snow or ice in sight. Polar bears are coming to the waters edge in October/November near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, waiting for the Hudson...
Well, this is just disturbing. The United States Food and Drug administration just announced that farmers have been using cloned cows to mate and produce beef. Which we're eating. The farmers are producing cloned...
It seems that Jamacian lizards are just as concerned about their physical fitness as some humans.Jamacian anole lizards start and finish each day with a wonderful visual display of push-ups, head bobs, and prancing...