Animals & Pets News

  • One of a pair of rare Bengal tiger cubs, that were donated by a North Carolina animal sanctuary despite protests by animal rights activists, is shown to the media for the first time at the Baghdad Zoo in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2008. The animals, which were donated by the North Carolina-based Conservators' Center, arrived Monday after being flown to Baghdad from the United States in a US$66,000 trip funded by the U.S. Embassy and transported to the zoo by the U.S. military. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
    Baghdad zoo welcomes pair of US-donated tiger cubs AP - Fri Aug 8, 2:40 PM ET

    BAGHDAD - The Baghdad Zoo on Friday welcomed a pair of rare Bengal tiger cubs that were donated by a North Carolina animal sanctuary despite protests by animal rights activists.

  • 32 research monkeys die in accident at Nevada lab AP - Thu Aug 7, 10:21 PM ET

    SPARKS, Nev. - Thirty-two research monkeys at a Nevada laboratory died because human errors made the room too hot, officials for the drug company that runs the lab said Thursday. Animal rights activists complain the company took too long to report the deaths.

  • Green sea turtles head to the sea, just after hatching at Guanahacabibes National Park's Antonio beach, in the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio in January. Researchers say they have figured out why sea turtles that normally feed and breed in shallow water or on land will, very rarely, go deep sea diving: the reptiles are on reconnaissance.(AFP/File)
    Deep mystery: why sea turtles plumb the depths AFP - Thu Aug 7, 10:06 PM ET

    PARIS (AFP) - Researchers say they have figured out why sea turtles that normally feed and breed in shallow water or on land will, very rarely, go deep sea diving: the reptiles are on reconnaissance.

  • Special delivery: FedEx to deliver 2 Fla. turtles AP - Thu Aug 7, 5:13 PM ET

    MARATHON, Fla. - Two green sea turtles are leaving the Florida Keys for their new home at a Connecticut aquarium via FedEx.

  • Animal rights activists on Thursday expressed outrage over what they called Israel's lack of control over animal testing as official figures showed the experiments were up 11 percent last year.(LALI)
    Activists lash out at Israel over increased animal testing AFP - Thu Aug 7, 12:23 PM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Animal rights activists on Thursday expressed outrage over what they called Israel's lack of control over animal testing as official figures showed the experiments were up 11 percent last year.

  • Love of Milk Dated Back to 6000 B.C. LiveScience.com - Wed Aug 6, 1:16 PM ET

    The answer to "Got milk?" just got a little older: A new study indicates that people have been milking cattle and other domesticated animals as well as processing and storing milk products for 2,000 years longer than originally thought. A group of scientists studied thousands of pottery shards from sites all over the Near East and the Balkans and tested them for residues of milk fats. They found that milk was already being used and processed by societies there by the seventh millennium B.C. ...

  • Swimmer Amanda Beard of the U.S. unveils an anti-fur poster in which she appears nude on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) outside the Beijing 2008 Olympic National Aquatics Center August 6, 2008. At left is Jason Baker of PETA. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
    U.S. nude swimmer defies ban on animal rights protest Reuters - Wed Aug 6, 7:22 AM ET

    BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. swimmer Amanda Beard unveiled a demure nude photograph of herself urging women "Don't wear fur" on Wednesday, hours after Chinese authorities had prevented her from her staging a news conference for "safety" reasons.

  • In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, a polar bear and her two cubs sit in Wapusk National Park, on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. (AP Photo/ The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
    Alaska sues over listing polar bear as threatened AP - Mon Aug 4, 11:17 PM ET

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The state of Alaska sued Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Monday, seeking to reverse his decision to list polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

  • World's Smallest Snake Discovered on Barbados LiveScience.com - Sun Aug 3, 8:16 AM ET

    As slim as a spaghetti noodle and able to fit snugly on a U.S. quarter, a new species of snake has been found hiding out in a forest on Barbados. The reptilian runt is now the world's smallest snake.

  • Rescue workers try to save a whale beached on mudflats in Langstone Harbour, Hayling Island, England, Friday Aug. 1, 2008. Around 30 people, including firefighters with mud rescue equipment and members of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue organisation are at the scene, keeping the animal cool while preparing to float it out to sea on a pontoon, when the tide come back in. (AP Photo / Chris Ison, PA)
    Whale stranded off English coast euthanized AP - Fri Aug 1, 4:51 PM ET

    LONDON - Marine veterinarians euthanized a sick, 26-foot-long whale Friday after it became stranded on a mudflat off the coast of southern England. British wildlife experts and the coast guard had tried all day to save the northern bottlenose whale, which beached off Langstone Harbor, 75 miles southwest of London.

  • Isabella, a golden retriever at the Safari Zoological Park, east of Caney, Kan. nurses Wednesday, July 30, 2008, three white tiger cubs she adopted after they were abandoned by their mother at the park. The cubs were born on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Daily Reporter, Rob Morgan)
    Golden retriever adopts tiger cubs at Kansas zoo AP - Thu Jul 31, 7:47 PM ET

    CANEY, Kan. - A dog at a southeast Kansas zoo has adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother. Safari Zoological Park owner Tom Harvey said the tiger cubs were born Sunday, but the mother had problems with them.

  • Rodeo lawsuit against animal-rights group tossed AP - Tue Jul 29, 5:58 PM ET

    CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A federal judge in Wyoming has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the booking company for a Cheyenne rodeo against an animal-rights group.

  • PETA asks military to end testing on animals AP - Tue Jul 29, 3:35 PM ET

    HONOLULU - Animal-rights activists want the U.S. to stop using animals as subjects to help train its military, calling the medical and trauma exercises cruel and a disservice to the troops.

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