Call the cops quick — my new rabbit hasn’t got floppy ears.
It doesn’t sound like a case for Sherlock Holmes but one woman decided it was worth calling the 999 emergency number when her new bunny did not match its newspaper advert description, according to Central Scotland Police.
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The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered a truly eye-opening advantage to binocular vision: our ability to see through things.
Most animals — fish, insects, reptiles, [...]
THEY met on the local hot rod scene. They saw one another at tattoo conventions around the area, comparing bikes. They looked like heavies, a band of Hells Angels, with nicknames equally tough: Mike Tattoo, Big Ant, Johnny O, Batso, Sal, Angel, Des.
They meant no harm. Clad in leather, inked to the hilt in skulls [...]
A new test for West Nile virus in horses that could be modified for use on humans and wildlife may help track the spread of the disease, according to an article in the September issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
West Nile virus infects a wide range of animals, including humans, horses, dogs, cats, bats, [...]
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There is an aura of content among the donkeys, cows, pigs, goats, horses, rabbits and cats at Rosia Kennedy’s Rainbow End Farm in Granby.
Kennedy rescued all of the 45 animals at the 8-acre farm from abuse, neglect or slaughter. Today they live in stalls and cages kept spic-and-span by Kennedy, a wiry 4-foot-11-inch woman with [...]
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Rabbit’s owner Gerry Finn had been home from night shift only 30 minutes when he heard the black rabbit furiously scratching at the bedroom door about 6am today.
He was shocked to discover it had alerted him to a blaze rapidly spreading through the back of his Macleod home, in Melbourne’s north.
Smoke blackened the inside [...]
Inspections of Loyola University’s medical school run by the US Department of Agriculture revealed numerous violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, which resulted in the deaths of rabbits and dogs.
Stop Animal Exploitation NOW based in Milford, Ohio required the inspections, which were made from 2006 to 2007. The inspectors found poor veterinary care, [...]
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The online marketplace eBay plans to ban the sale of dog and cat pelts on its German-language Web sites starting Tuesday.
Alexander Witt, a spokesman for eBay in Germany, said the ban was in response to protests from animal rights groups that believe clothing and other goods claiming to contain rabbit or mink fur are actually [...]
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Dutch Rubicon laureate Chris Smit has concluded that small mammals, such as rabbits and mice, play a major role in the development of natural diversity. Smit researched how scrub becomes established in natural grassland. It seems that prickly shrubs are important in protecting plants and preventing animal species from grazing.
Smit has also demonstrated that natural [...]
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