Animals
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Books
How Americans Learned to Be Kinder to (Some) Animals
“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.
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World
After Outlawing Public Zoos, Costa Rica Relocates Hundreds of Animals
Some of the animals will stay in sanctuaries, while others may be released into the wild.
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World
Anxiety, Bedtime and Mating: How Animals May React to the Eclipse
When the total solar eclipse happens on Monday, pets, farm and zoo animals might act strange. Researchers can’t wait to…
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World
India Zoo Official Gave Revered Names to 2 Lions. He Was Punished.
The names, Sita and Akbar, evoking a Hindu goddess and a Muslim emperor, drew outrage from Hindu activists who saw…
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News
Chimps Can Still Remember Faces After a Quarter Century
Long-term memories may have been vital to our own evolution, suggests a new study of chimpanzees and bonobos.
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World
Colombia to Sterilize Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’
The drug kingpin brought four hippos to his estate in the 1980s. Officials estimate that about 170 now roam Colombia,…
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News
The Truth About Your Bacon
We used to raise hogs on our family farm here, and to be honest I didn’t much like them. Defenders…
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Style
Blood of Young Mice Extends Life in the Old
Infusions of youthful blood led older mice to live 6 to 9 percent longer, a new study found.
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World
Saber-Tooth Cats and Dire Wolves Carried a Terrible Disease in Their Bones
Researchers say that evidence of osteochondrosis dissecans in the ice age predators offers insights to how they went extinct.
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News
Peter Singer: The Simplest Way to Change the Planet’s Fate
MELBOURNE, Australia — The year of the first Earth Day, 1970, was the year I stopped eating meat. I didn’t…