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Girl on YouTube Throws Puppies Into River, The Internet Goes Vigilante
Filed under: Videos , News / Politics , Busted! , Animals Two days ago, a young blonde Bosnian girl was depicted in a YouTube video tossing several puppies into a river. You can watch the footage at Liveleak, but please be warned that it is VERY SAD ...
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Tokyo is a battleground for animals in PS3's 'Tokyo Jungle'
The latest game to be born from Sony's " PlayStation CAMP " initiative, which brought us both What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!? and Patchwork Heroes , is simple to describe yet difficult to explain. Tokyo Jungle is about animals running free in ...
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21% of Africa's freshwater plants and animals threatened
21 percent of African freshwater plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, according to a five year assessment of 5,167 freshwater species by 200 scientists.
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Wayne Pacelle: New York Times Writers Speak up for Chickens, Chimps
Today, The New York Times covers two of the pitched debates in our society about animals -- reporter Dan Frosch covers the controversy over the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof offers an ...
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Black Panthers as Props - Vogue Paris September 2010 Shows Dangerous Animals as Fashion Accessories (GALLERY)
The Vogue Paris September 2010 issue stars model Freja Beha Erichsen walking a black panther. Mikael Jansson photographed the feisty model and wild animal for this spread, while stylist Anastasia Barbieri
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Constructivist Cartography
The development blogosphere recently lit up with news of South Sudans plan to rebuild some of its urban centers in the shape of various animals.The plan elicited nor shortage of guffaws, as is appropriate. But in the interest of maintaining ...
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Hungry flies ok with less sleep
There may be certain conditions under which animals can forgo sleep without serious consequences
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Studio Strays Rescued by Lea Michele and Glee Castmates
Lea Michele throws as much passion behind being a voice for animals as her Glee character, Rachel Berry, puts into her solos. Last year, she was part of PETA's "Buck Cruelty" campaign against horse-drawn carriages . She teamed up with the organization ...
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Fall books preview: Sara Gruen finds trust at 'Ape House'
'Water for Elephants' author shows her affinity for animals again in her novel about humans and animals at a university research facility.
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Serengeti's Great Migrations May Be on Road to Ruin
LiveScience.com - A proposed road through the Serengeti could jeopardize one of the largest migrations of land animals in the world, conservationists warn.
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Pets in the news: Loose dog causes crash
Stray animals. Animals running at large. Animals abandoned by their owners and left to wander the streets. We all see them. Vaguely, we all understand that such a situation is bad for the animals, and can even be dangerous. Loose animals can be hit by ...
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Humane association taps D.C. for new leader
The American Humane Association, an Arapahoe County- based advocate for the protection of children and animals, announced Tuesday that philanthropy executive Robin Ganzert was named president and chief executive, effective Oct. 1.
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Maybe ketamine would help?
From Aug 19, 2010 Scientific American:Ketaminea powerful anesthetic for humans and animals that lists hallucinations among its side effects and therefore is often abused under the name Special Kdelivers rapid relief to chronically depressed ...
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Conservation and compassion: First do no harm
In putting conservation into practice, we often cause great suffering to animals. Marc Bekoff argues that we need a new ethical perspective
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Mothers matter
Success makes sexy - this does not only apply to human beings, but also to various animals. Male bonobos appear to benefit from this phenomenon as well. A team of researchers led by Gottfried Hohmann of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...
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LETTER: Little help is available for abandoned pets
TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 9 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 1245 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 1245 -->--> I am writing about the lack of help here in Clarksville concerning our animals. With a town growing like we are, with the military ...
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The Sexual Politics of Meat Celebrates 20th Anniversary
The Sexual Politics of Meat celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a new edition and foreward. The book, written by Carol J. Adams, is about the interconnectness of the oppression of women and animals in modern day society. It had been called ...
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Noted Literary Scholar Sarah Palin Tweets About Orwell, Obama
So is Sarah Palin saying George Orwell did not write fiction, he wrote history books, and thus Obama is rewriting this history? That must be terrifying for Sarah Palin, knowing that just decades ago farm animals established a communist state right on ...
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Cold snap decimates Amazon aquatic life
Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Bolivia (UPI) Aug 31, 2010 Millions of aquatic animals in land-locked Bolivia's river systems have perished in unusually cold weather during the ongoing winter. The casualties include at least 6 million fish, thousands of ...
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American Physiological Society (APS) Announces New Position Statements on Animals in Research
The American Physiological Society (APS; www.the-aps.org) announced today the adoption of two new position statements on animals in research.
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Top 10 Most Incredible Animal Journeys
Animals will make extraordinary and often mysterious expeditions to find a good meal, sexy mates, and the perfect place to raise a family. This month, billions of cicadas will burst out from their 17-year-old hiding places to complete one of the ...
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Rescued Bears Fall Victim to Pakistan Floods
Record-breaking floods have devastated Pakistan, claiming at least 1,600 human lives and displacing over 20 million people . In rural areas, livestock and companion animals are a critical part of people's lives and livelihoods. The U.N. Food and ...
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Cat in bin - Puppies in river - Horse in stable...but for how long?
The latest fashion of cruelly tormenting innocent animals continues to take the world by storm. After the instant celebrity enjoyed by Mary Bale, it seems that everyone wants a piece of the action.The Internet has become flooded with videos of wa...
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The Cruel Irony of Organic Standards
The triumph of purist ideology over compassion and science means suffering and death for organic farm animals across America. The week-old dairy calf, gangly and still, lay on a barn floor, her long-lashed eyes rolled back to expose the blue-white rim. ...
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Their Day in Court
Media coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has focusedand rightly so on people who may lose their livelihood as a result of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 people in April.
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Righteous gluttony
Wild animals revel in feasting and simply endure the hungry times, unlike modern Westerners with our sterile supermarkets.
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The New Face of Japanese Games
The facial features of many anime characters can appear ethnically Western, a process that is spreading to Japanese-made videogame plots and content. Fintan Monaghan does not believe that this is a healthy development.
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Shifting ozone hole exposed South America to more ultraviolet light in 2009
The ozone layer, which protects humans, plants, and animals from potentially damaging ultraviolet (UV) light from the Sun, develops a hole above Antarctica in September that typically lasts until early December. However, in November 2009, that hole ...
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Top 10 Swingers of the Animal Kingdom
These polygamous animals are the most active swingers in nature.
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Sustainable Blogging: Blog Like a Farmer
This is a guest post by Kim De, a freelance writer and author of Zen Kitchen, a blog focused on recipes and food issues. Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For animals to remain strong and healthy under adverse situations. For humans to maintain ...
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