IFAW to Help Animals Affected by Record Floods in North Dakota

IFAW to Help Animals Affected by Record Floods in North Dakota
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) announced it is sending an emergency relief team to aid animals affected by record floods in North Dakota. The full team and IFAW's 36-foot transport trailer are expected to be in Fargo on March 28. The Red River in Fargo broke a 112-year-old...

New Tech Can Monitor Vast Groups of Fish

New Tech Can Monitor Vast Groups of Fish
New technology is allowing researchers and conservationists to watch the movement of large groups of fish as they gather into shoals and later split up. Focusing on Atlantic herring, the scientists were, for the first time, able to observe the fish gather off Georges Bank near Cape Cod, Mass., where...

You want the cute? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE CUTE!

You want the cute? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE CUTE!
Special thanks to Saeid Halvaeian of http://www.burnthiscitystudios.com for submitting this video to Kitty Mowmow's Animal Expo! Submit your animal stuff here. Should people be able to own monkeys as pets? Yes. No. Maybe. View Results  Loading ... photo credit: sub_lime79 VN:F...

Bobcat walks into bar, attacks patrons

Bobcat walks into bar, attacks patrons
A bobcat attacked three people in a community in central Arizona, including two men who were bitten when the animal wandered inside a bar. Officers called to the Chapparal Bar in Cottonwood arrived to find the bobcat in the parking lot, where they shot and killed it, KVRD-FM radio reported. Click here...

Emergency appeal for medicines for Orangutans at Nyaru Menteng

Emergency appeal for medicines for Orangutans at Nyaru Menteng
photo credit: matrianklw I received this announcement from Richard Zimmerman of Orangutan Outreach.  To learn more about the plight of the endangered orangutans and to find ways you help save them, visit: http://redapes.org/campaigns/medical-appeal/ Malaria has hit the Nyaru Menteng Clinic with devastating...

Family Of Chimp Attack Victim Seeks $50M

Family Of Chimp Attack Victim Seeks $50M
photo credit: ori2uru The family of Charla Nash -- who suffered devastating injuries in last month's Chimpanzee attack in Stamford -- is seeking $50 million in damages against the chimp's owner. Nash's twin brother, Michael, filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in Stamford late Monday against Sandra Herold...

Animals make their mark at SXSW

Animals make their mark at SXSW
photo credit: law_keven It doesn't matter what panel I find myself in, or what situation I stumble across, animals are making their way into the South by Southwest festival conversation. The first day I got here, I picked up my "big bag." Every year, I like to take a picture of the tens of thousands...

Young Dinosaurs Roamed Together, Died Together

Young Dinosaurs Roamed Together, Died Together
photo credit: kekremsi A herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American paleontologists that excavated the site in the Gobi Desert in western Inner Mongolia. The Sudden sudden death of the herd in...

What to do when an owner puts an animal in danger

What to do when an owner puts an animal in danger
photo credit: Piez Quick. You've got 60 seconds to make a decision that may help an animal in what could be in a life-threatening situation. But this case is rather complicated. Deciding what to do may be even more complex than making a decision about whether to put yourself in peril by trying to...

Mini Dinosaurs Once Prowled North America

Mini Dinosaurs Once Prowled North America
photo credit: dyanna Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian researchers who have discovered the smallest dinosaur species on the continent to...

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