Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists. What messages and techniques have been proven effective in getting people to make compassionate decisions like boycotting fur and adopting companion animals instead of buying them? In the author's words.

Factory Farming

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

However recent research has shown that they are in fact not baboons, despite superficial appearances, and they are now just called “Gelada”. Males sport a larger heart-shaped bare batch encircled by pale fur, that shows off their dominance status. Portrait of a male Gelada. Photo by Adam Riley.

Ethiopia

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

South Africa is their steward and have been declared Special Nature Reserves under the South African Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act in 2003, which restricts activities on the islands to research and conservation management. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

South Africa

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Each fly has a name and a ‘recipe’ to follow for its creation, a complicated procedure utilizing a hook, sometimes fur, sometimes wool, but always brightly colored feathers from rare birds. This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. Kelson, published in 1895.

Collecting