Animal protection

This circus still has a tusk force Express FeaturesFirst Published : 22 Dec 2009 07:33:58 AM ISTLast Updated : 22 Dec 2009 10:33:12 AM ISTBANGALORE: Your 'favourite' (or so they claim) Gemini Circus is back in the city.And so are the elephants.Wondering what happened to the recent notification according to which the elephants cannot be kept in zoos? Mind you, the definition of zoos includes circus also in the Wildlife Protection Act.What about...  

I am not one to show photos of animals being tortured, but a couple of whistle blowers risked their lives to take numerous photos of how Ringling Brothers abuses animals.This is a "Tame" photo, but to see the rest, go to Peta.orgPlease take your children to circuses that don't use animals, which have clowns and acrobats and other fun times that don't cause obscene cruelty to animals. This is something the family could do together...protest...  

An ancient dwarf whale appears to have fed by sucking small animals out of the seafloor mud with its short snout and tongue, experts say. Researchers say. ... The ancient animal's mud slurping may have been a precursor to the filter feeding seen in modern baleen whales. These whales strain huge quantities of tiny marine animals through specialised “combs” which take the place of teeth. The research is published in the Zoological Journal of...  

The ancient animal's mud slurping may have been a precursor to the filter feeding seen in modern baleen whales. These whales strain huge quantities of tiny marine animals through specialised "combs" which take the place of teeth. ... " Clearly the seas off southern Australia were a cradle for the evolution of a variety of tiny, weird whales that seem to have lived nowhere else," said Dr Fitzgerald. The baleen plates which allow today's baleen...  

"There is more we will continue to learn about beluga whales as a result of this loss that will ultimately benefit beluga whales in the marine mammal community and in the wild," she said. Another baby beluga male, born a week ... The Shedd Aquarium provides so much opportunity to learn about the sea and the animals that reside in the sea. Focus on the other newborn and hopefully another birth will occur in due time. Go to the Shedd! It is a...