Florence, a six-foot-long nurse shark that lives in England’s Birmingham National Sea Life Centre, has baffled shark watchers, bloggers, and her tank’s curators by voluntarily adopting a vegetarian diet, reports Treehugger.
“We’re having to hide pieces of fish inside celery sticks, hollowed out cucumbers and between the leaves of lettuces to get her to eat them,” said curator Graham Burrows. “And it has to be well hidden, because if she realizes it’s there she’ll ignore the offering and wait for the strictly vegetarian option.”
Talk about putting a spin on that old Hollywood cliche, “Make love to the camera.”
Foxie, a 36-year-old chimp, recently planted a sloppy kiss on a hidden camera at Chimp Sanctuary Northwest in Washington state, reports Treehugger. The lush primate haven recently installed the camera to monitor the seven newly freed chimps in their care.
Frequent visitors to Paw & Order know we absolutely adore hero dogs that somehow manage to save their human owners. See this or this courageous canine gallery. Every once in a while, though, we’re just as inspired by the opposite scenario—by a person who tosses aside self-preservation and leaps into a dangerous situation to rescue a dog in distress.
A person like Dan White of Livingston, a small city in West Lothian, Scotland.
This week, the 29-year-old doggie do-gooder ran up to a crashed vehicle, ignored the billowing smoke, reached inside, and removed a Jack Russell terrier named Izzy.
As a horse-loving kid, I was entranced by the high-stepping, ultra-stylish gait of Tennessee Walkers, until my father told me about the common “training" methods used to force these animals to perform.
Oftentimes, their fancy movements were actually reactions to severe pain and distress. Corrosive painful chemicals are often applied on their lower legs. And they can also be cattle prodded or hit with heavy chains.
Thankfully, a Humane Society investigator brought the repulsive practice out of the show barn and into the hands of ABC News which immediately broadcast the video on Nightline.
I’ve never understood the argument that hunting is a “sport,” as if the fight between man and animal is a balanced, mutually agreed upon arrangement, or that killing animals with bows and arrows in 2012 evokes any semblance of mythic resonance.
Austin Keeney's dog Rowdy suffers from an all-too-common canine malady: generally a calm pooch, he goes "nuts" as soon as thunder starts rolling and cracking in the skies above.
As the Kentucky Post reports, Rowdy is the perfect volunteer for the Thundershirt, a new product that claims to be "the best solution for dog anxiety." Recently, three Kentucky dog owners tried the shirts on their pets during the region's stormy season.
In 1999, conservationist Lawrence Anthony rehabilitated a herd of wild South African elephants that had a habit of escaping the game reserves where they lived, CBC Television reports.
There are angels living in Bakersfield, California—and if a sleek black puppy named Prince could talk, he would tell you himself after two caring folks rescued him from certain death.
