Rob made 20 jumps strapped into a special harness, including one into Nazi-held Italy with the SAS Bravery medals awarded to a collie called Rob that made 20 parachute jumps during the second world war and is credited with frequently saving his human colleagues have sold at auction for a record £140,000. Rob was strapped […]
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By: Jordan Hubrich and Josh Harris The kind of treats typically associated with Halloween often involve sugar, chocolate, and candy. But many of the animals at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden have a […]
This week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is celebrating National Wildlife Refuge Week across the public lands that it manages. Sadly, many already-imperiled species of wildlife on these lands and waters are being left to suffer painful and often-deadly lead poisoning due to inaction by the Department of Interior. Wildlife refuges should be […]
Meditation can help the human brain from deteriorating and lose its cognitive function that happens during an Alzheimer’s disease.
Changing their surroundings reveals how the creatures gauge distance using visual density of environment Goldfish may spend most of their time swimming up and down a glass tank but researchers have found they have a sophisticated navigation system that allows them to estimate distance. While researchers have previously shown a wide array of fish can […]
Luan Nguyen said ‘I jabbed him in the eyes’ after he and friends were stranded for 28 hours after boat sank off Louisiana coast Luan Nguyen and his two friends hoped to do little more this weekend than fish and relax. But their boat trip on Saturday into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico […]
Sandy, Bedfordshire: In between hospital visits, I go for a walk, accompanied every step of the way Dusk came on unawares. A cry against the dark triggered our last conversation. “Can you hear the blackbird?” I asked. “Magpie,” she said. My mother has been dying by degrees this autumn, as surely as the shortening of […]
Two-time winning kākāpō absent from annual poll amid concerns the parrot may take the spotlight from less charismatic birds New Zealand’s annual bird of the year competition could usher in another round of controversy, with perennial favourite the kākāpō struck from the ballot after twice winning the competition. The fat, flightless and nocturnal parrot is […]
The state’s wildlife agency is offering a reward of $51,000 for tips leading to conviction in the case to help protect the animals Six endangered wolves found dead in north-east Washington this year were poisoned, officials announced on Monday, and a reward is being offered for tips leading to a conviction in the case. Washington […]