Are we natural meat eaters?

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Bullfighting is wrong

Bullfighting is the most indefensible type of animal abuse. It is the activity of brutal and cruel cowards desperately attempting to hide themselves behind a facade of art, bravery and tradition by challenging a hopelessly overwhelmed opponent.
Contrary to the propaganda of bullfighting apologists, bulls are normally quiet and peaceful animals, and only react violently in [...]

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Don’t treat others the way you don’t want to be treated

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Should apes have human rights?

Should apes have human rights?

By Tom Geoghegan
BBC News Magazine

Apes and humans have common ancestors but should they have the same rights? An international movement to give them “personhood” is gathering pace.
What would Aristotle make of it? More than 2,000 years after the Greek [...]

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Arctic sea ice melt ‘even faster’

Arctic sea ice melt ‘even faster

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BB News website

A widespread Arctic melt would have major impacts on wildlife

Arctic sea ice is melting even faster than last year, despite a cold winter.
Data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows that the year [...]

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Dog Intelligence

Dog Intelligence
Dog intelligence is the ability of a dog to learn, think, and solve problems. Dog trainers, owners, and researchers have as much difficulty agreeing on a method for testing canine intelligence, as they do for human intelligence.
There are three types of dog intelligence:

Adaptive Intelligence (learning and problem-solving ability). This is specific to the individual [...]

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Save the Koalas

Save the koalas
KOALA
Phascolarctos cinereus
MAMMAL
Order Marsupial
Habitat
Eucalyptus (gum tree) forests and woodlands.
Niche
Strictly arboreal, living in and feeding on the leaves of eucalyptus trees. Caecum of gut is greatly enlarged (about 6 ft. long) and houses a large bacterial colony that aids in leaf digestion. Usually comes to ground only to change trees. Preyed upon [...]

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Sinpiel.org ¿Cuántas vidas para un abrigo?

Sinpiel.org – Campaña en contra del uso de pieles de animales

Cada año mueren millones de animales solo para abastecer la cruel industria de las pieles. Zorros, visones, chinchillas, castores, lobos, mapaches… víctimas todos de la moda y la ignorancia de las personas, que parecen no saber que sus abrigos de pieles significaron el asesinato de [...]

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Adoption between different dolphin species

Every day dolphins played in the rushing waters near the coral reef off Rangiroa Atoll in French Polynesia. It wasn’t until Roland Seltre carefully checked his photos that he realised he’d actually witnessed some unique behaviour.

You wouldn’t want to swim over the [...]

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The Water Baby

The water baby: Amazing pictures that capture the moment a dolphin joins the world
It is one of the rarest and most magical sights in the natural world.A bottlenose dolphin goes into labour . . . then a calf emerges, tail first. Mother guides baby gently to the surface, where they swim together for the first [...]

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