This week Habulla, who has become an internet sensation, has been criticized by many for a video of him abusing a cat. In the video, he’s seen pinching and pulling the cat’s ears and slapping its face. Many have called for his connection with the UFC to be terminated in light of animal abuse claims.…
A new report published in Nature Climate Change suggests that trophic rewilding, or restoring and protecting the functional roles of animals in ecosystems, is an overlooked climate solution.Reintroducing just nine species or groups of species (including African forest elephants, American bison, fish, gray wolves, musk oxen, sea otters, sharks, whales and wildebeest) would help limit…
1. I threw out a couple of tweets Tuesday about the Yankees selling exclusive games to Amazon Prime, and they got some strong reactions (and there was even a hilarious article written about the tweets in which the first sentence was totally inaccurate), so if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to go into a little more…
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Microplastics are messing with the microbiomes of seabirds The news: While we know that tiny pieces of plastic are everywhere, we don’t fully understand what they’re doing to us or other animals. Now,…
Un puma atacó a un hombre mientras se relajaba en un jacuzzi en Colorado, según el Departamento de Parques y Vida Silvestre del estado. Las autoridades siguen en busca del animal silvestre...
As a top predator, grey wolves can make an important contribution to carbon removal from the atmosphereTim Fitzharris/Minden Pictures/Alamy Restoring the populations of a few important groups of animals could help capture huge amounts of carbon from the air and thereby play a role in limiting global warming. Climate change research has emphasised the importance…
As the world increasingly turns toward natural climate solutions like reforestation and grassland restoration to sequester carbon, it may be overlooking a crucial ally: animals. Protecting existing populations and restoring others to their natural habitats often improves the natural capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide within ecosystems, according to a study published today in the…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Earlier in the week, Liam and I had the opportunity to chat with Animal Well's solo developer and publisher Bigmode about creating their eerie subterranean world. We then had a chance to go hands on…
Despite being incarcerated in federal prison over several animal-related crimes—and masterminding a plot to kill his conservationist foe Carole Baskin—Tiger King star Joe “Exotic” Maldonado-Passage says his 21-year sentence should not deter Americans from supporting the 2024 presidential wannabe.In an interview with Fox News over the weekend, Maldonado-Passage, who was incarcerated in 2018, spoke to…
Two tigers briefly went missing from a Georgia zoo after a tornado struck the state on Saturday night and damaged the facility’s infrastructure.In a Facebook post on Sunday morning, the Troup county’s sheriff’s office announced that it received a report from the Pine Mountain Animal Safari that a “tiger … is unaccounted for inside the…
