The Scottish government has declared war on increasingly aggressive urban seagulls.
The initial battle will be joined in the southwestern town of Dumfries during next spring’s breeding season when a special anti-gull “task force” will seek to destroy nests and drive out the birds.
“Seagulls are a menace to Scottish towns and cities,” said [...]
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An animal rights group is calling for a New York state investigation into kapporos in Brooklyn.
For the second year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has complained about the High Holidays ritual of swinging a chicken over one’s head, a sin transference ceremony.
In a letter sent Monday to the state agriculture department’s Kosher Law [...]
Cyprus’s popular holiday resort of Ayia Napa has introduced the island’s first legal beach exclusively for animals after complaints it was becoming a dog’s life for man’s best friend.
Better known for all-night partying by Western tourists, the southeastern resort is now catering for dogs amid growing discontent that pooches [...]
Forget cow tipping—next time you want to mess with a bovine friend, try waving a magnet in its face.
Researchers have found that when grazing or resting, cattle and deer tend to point their bodies toward Earth’s magnetic poles, which suggests they are able to sense magnetic fields in the same way as many smaller animals.
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If only Goldilocks had a cockapoo.
A 15-pound cocker spaniel-poodle mix named Pawlee scared off a mother bear and her two cubs Sunday morning after they strayed into his owners’ back yard.
Whether his bark was worse than his bite, Pawlee’s tactic worked just fine. These three bears got the hint and took off.
“We had [...]
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Ten donkeys decorated for an annual competition in the southern village of Room near Jezzine raced a 100-meter course to the delight of a huge crowd on Sunday. But the festivities were interrupted by protesters decrying the abuse of donkeys during the race.
Members of the Animal Behavior Society protested against the violent treatment of the [...]
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The evidence in his office gave the judge pause: a half-eaten apple and some very distinctive footprints.
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Federal bankruptcy Judge Paul W. Bonapfel reported the break-in last week at the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in downtown Atlanta.
The intruder made no effort to cover his tracks across a stack of federal memos in the 14th-floor [...]
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Michigan’s first case of chronic wasting disease was confirmed Monday in a white-tailed deer from a privately owned facility in the state’s western Lower Peninsula.
Michigan officials have quarantined all privately owned cervid facilities and banned the movement of all privately owned deer, elk and moose.
There is no evidence that the disease exists in free-ranging, wild [...]
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A special August issue of the Journal of Comparative Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association, presents a host of studies that investigate the way that animals adapt their calls, chirps, barks and whistles to their social situation.
The special issue, Acoustic Interaction in Animal Groups: Signaling in Noisy and Social Contexts, reports on findings from [...]
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Cats with a fondness for gourmet meals are threatening fish supplies, an Australian scientist says.
Deakin University scientist Dr Giovanni Turchini has discovered an estimated 2.48 million tonnes of forage fish - a limited biological resource - is consumed by the global cat food industry each year.
“That such a large amount of fish is used for [...]
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