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Dog brain study refutes every major claim of pit bull advocacy

September 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Looking at normal dogs’ brains shows how “fighting breed” brains differ             BOSTON,  POMONA––There may already be weeping and gnashing of teeth among pit bull advocates,  and perhaps significant fundraising underway to trump up rebuttals,  too,  following the September 2,  2019 Journal of Neuroscience publication of “Significant neuroanatomical variation among domestic dog breeds,”  by Harvard […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal sentience & intelligence, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Science, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alexandra Semyonova, Beth Clifton, Erin Hecht, John D. Johnson, John P. Colby, Kristopher Irizarry, Laura Sanders, Merritt Clifton, Victoria Voith

“Send Ndume back to Cinci!” says gorilla case Solomon

February 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“Enough poop––move him or lose him,”  judge tells Gorilla Foundation             SAN FRANCISCO––The Gorilla Foundation,  of Woodside,  California,  ain’t said @#$%,  either to mass media or through social media,  since Judge Richard Seeborg of the U.S. District Court of Northern California,  who was asked to play Solomon between claimants to Ndume the feces-flinging silverback gorilla,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal sentience & intelligence, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Science, USA, Wildlife, Zoos

Four people who changed how humans see animals

December 13, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Charlie Russell,  Mary T. Hoffman, Aubrey Manning, & Dorothy Cheney  Russell made “Spirit Bears” famous            Canadian bear researcher and author Charlie Russell,  76,  died on May 7,  2018 in Calgary, Alberta,  from complications after surgery.             Born in Pincher Creek, Alberta,  where his parents Andy and Kay Russell were hunting outfitters and guides,  Charlie Russell […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Botswana, Culture & Animals, Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Isles, Kenya, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Science, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife

“Meat-eating is never neutral”: Mary Midgely, 99

October 19, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Author of Animals & Why They Matter             NEWCASTLE ON TYNE,  United Kingdom––“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral,”  wrote Mary Midgely on page 27 of her 1983 opus Animals & Why They Matter. “To himself,”  Midgely observed,  “the meat-eater seems to be eating life.  To the vegetarian,  he seems to be eating death.  There […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: David Midgely, Iris Murdoch, James Lovelock, Kate Rawles, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Peter Singer, Tom Midgely, Tom Regan

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life 

September 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

by David Quammen Simon & Schuster 461 pages,  $30.00 hardcover. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton At a glance,  The Tangled Tree:  A Radical New History of Life,  by veteran science writer and historian David Quammen,  might seem to most ANIMALS 24-7 readers far removed from our usual topics of animal use,  abuse,  and consumption;  dog attacks;  […]

Filed Under: Animal sentience & intelligence, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Science

Death of Koko, 46, raises question what will become of her rejected mate Ndume?

June 22, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Koko was among the last great apes used in still controversial 1970s language research             WOODSIDE,  California––With Koko deceased,  what now will become of Ndume,  37,  the last and least famous of the three gorillas who once shared the Gorilla Foundation sanctuary and primate language research laboratory in the Santa Cruz Mountains,  south of San […]

Filed Under: Activism, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Cameroun, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Barbara J. King, Dawn Forsythe, Francine Patterson, Herb Terrace, Jane Goodall, Jane Hu, Jeffrey Kluger, Merritt Clifton, Penny Patterson, Ronald Cohn

Are feminists right to resist comparison with the females of other species?

June 9, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD.,  president of United Poultry Concerns A woman employed on a chicken “breeder” farm in Maryland wrote a letter once to the local newspaper berating the defenders of chickens for trying to make her lose her job, threatening her ability to support herself and her daughter. For her,  “breeder” hens were “mean” birds who […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Workers Tagged With: Carol J.Adams, Carolynn L. Smith, J. Baird Callicott, Jane Johnson, Jim Mason, Marc Bekoff

Beyond sentience: will Brexit halt live animal exports from the U.K.?

December 14, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Minister for Agriculture & Rural Affairs confirms her government is “considering options to control live animal exports”             LONDON,  U.K.––British cabinet ministers,  after the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union,  called “Brexit” for short,  “must have regard to the welfare needs of animals as sentient beings in formulating and implementing government policy,”  according to draft […]

Filed Under: Animal sentience & intelligence, Cattle & dairy, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, Mice & rats, Regulation, Science, Scotland, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom, Welfare Tagged With: Claire Horton, David Bowles, Jon Craig, Merritt Clifton, Michael Gove, Phillip J. Lymbery, Theresa Villiers, Therese Coffey

Naming Nature: The clash between instinct & science

December 6, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by Carol Kaesuk Yoon W.W. Norton & Co. (500 5th Ave., New York, NY 10110), 2009.  344 pages, hardcover.  $27.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Though you may never have heard of either “taxonomy” or  “cladistics,”   the two central concepts in Carol Kaesuk Yoon’s 2009 opus Naming Nature,   it remains a fascinating read for […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Bats, Beliefs, Birds, Book & film reviews, Crustaceans, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Horses & Farmed Animals, Insects, Marine life, Other animals & science topics, Other species, Religion & philosophy, Reptiles, Science, Snakes, Turtles, Wildlife Tagged With: Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Carolus Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Con Slobodchikoff, Merritt Clifton

Snooty, 69, last Florida manatee without propeller scars, drowns in tank

August 4, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Oldest manatee on record was second born in captivity          BRADENTON,  Florida––Snooty,  69,  both the oldest Florida manatee on record and the only Florida manatee on record who lacked scars from boat propellers,  drowned on July 22,  2017 at the South Florida Aquarium in Bradenton,  his almost lifelong home. Snooty had two scars on his […]

Filed Under: Animal sentience & intelligence, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Habitat, Manatees & dugongs, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Science, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Craig Pittman, Georgis Vathis, Joe Moore, Merritt Clifton, Paula Langford Nichols, Prins Valdemar, R.J. Walters, Samuel Stout

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