Animals in the News
by Gregory McNamee What does a herpetologist do? Often, a herpetologist, a scientist who specializes in the study of reptiles, spends his or her day working with museum collections, slides, skeletons,...
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by Gregory McNamee Only the oldest of bird watchers will have seen the imperial woodpecker in the wild—and those who have will never forget the sight. At two feet tall, it was the largest woodpecker in...
View ArticleProduct Testing Moves Away from Animals
by Stephanie Ulmer — Our thanks to the ALDF Blog, where this post originally appeared on November 21, 2011. It’s about time, right? The Los Angeles Times recently reported that Allergan, the maker of...
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by Gregory McNamee How many Florida panthers are there in the wild? Almost certainly more than the two dozen or so panthers that were known to exist in the early 1980s, but vastly fewer than in decades...
View ArticleFeral Cats for Hire: Cats at Work Works
Roewade said, “I placed the colony at Empirical because the owner was very interested in the program for humane and practical reasons: the pest control service wasn’t working, and their grain supplies...
View ArticleAction Alert from the National Anti-Vivisection Society
Tweet — Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out a “Take Action Thursday” email alert, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a...
View ArticleTeaching People to Hate Snakes Is a Disaster for Ecology
Humans often fear what they don't understand. And to most, snakes are a mystery.
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