On Depression and Animality, Eva Meijer in Humanimalia
Very interesting article by Eva Meijer in the latest number of the online journal Humanimalia. Eva Meijer, The Melancholic AnimalContinue Reading
Category: (Disabled) animals
“An aesthetically undesirable trophy”
Photographer Julie Carrow spotted this deer with fibromas in Minnesota. Caused by a virus, they reportedly do not harm theContinue Reading
Were ticks used as biological weapons to spread Lyme disease?
Could the spread of Lyme disease among humans be the result of experiments with ticks of the US. military? TheContinue Reading
Ryzhik, the Siberian cat with artifical limbs
A ginger cat named Ryzhik (meaning Redhead) was found with severe frostbite and gangrene an all four limbs in Tomsk,Continue Reading
Drugged wildlife. Cocaine found in all samples of UK shrimp
A study carried out by scientists from King’s College London and the University of Suffolk tested the exposure of wildlifeContinue Reading
Changing bodies. African elephants are evolving to be tuskless because of poaching
African elephants have been killed relentlessly for centuries for their ivory tusks, giving elephants that do not grow tusks aContinue Reading
Peanut the six-pack turtle
Peanut is red-eared slider turtle, who became a ‘mascot’ for raising awareness about plastic pollution among wildlife. No, not becauseContinue Reading
