Small, colorful Birds crammed into cages stacked one on top of the other are displayed on the sidewalk. Beside them,…
PRETTY AND PRETTY DAZED Let us get back to that resurgence of prey and predators while I was staying at…
You’ve heard of Laika, the first Dog in space, but did you know that a Cat was once sent to…
WHEN STRATEGIES FOR SAVING ENDANGERED SPECIES NEED TO BE CLOSELY LOOKED AT Some time ago in the online world, images…
It was my wife who first spotted the bird fluttering helplessly over 20 feet above us while we were walking…
The ongoing Russian attack on Ukraine has citizens fleeing the country, and with them, their companion animals. Responding to this urgent matter, many European nations have opened their borders.
Bats — Paniki in Filipino — are extraordinary mammals who have modified forelimbs that have evolved into wings. Belonging to the order Chiroptera, a term that stems from the Greek words chiro and ptera literally translating to “hand wings,” they are the only order of mammals capable of flight (Wund and Myers, 2005).
A little-known fact by the public is that most animal companions become community animals. Maybe it’s because some families can’t take care of them anymore or, worse, they get tired of them once the animals grow up. In the end, the animals become unhomed .
The Elephants of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park have adapted to the pressures of poaching in a way that has baffled geneticists and other scientists: A third of their younger females born after 1992 never developed tusks.
First, there was SARS. Then, MERS-COV. Now, it’s COVID-19. What do these diseases have in common? They are zoonotic diseases. The viruses that cause them come from animals before they are eventually transmitted to humans. They also tend to stop the world in its tracks, especially the latest one known as COVID-19.