Shelter director, veterinarian, herpetologist, lepidopterist Sharing concern for animals and dedication to helping animals in a variety of ways, Karly Cantrell, Andrea Kelly, William H. “Marty” Martin, and Sarah Schmidt also shared recent shocking deaths. Two died by murders, one by her own hand, and one apparently through simple bad luck. Karly Cantrell Karly Cantrell, […]
Remove bees, wasps, or hornets without getting stung
First, don’t go bugs by Merritt Clifton For years I was the fellow whom people would call for help when they had problems with bees and closely related species. I never had much trouble handling bees, wasps, or hornets, but even though handling them may not be hard, there is not any one simple […]
Charles Henry Turner proved Darwin was right about animal sentience
Turner had no laboratory & no lab animals for most of his career, but keenly watched bugs CINCINNATI, Ohio––Science, law, and animal advocacy have at last begun paying serious attention to what Charles Henry Turner discovered and wrote about animal intelligence and sentience. In the United Kingdom, for instance, a pending amendment to the Animal […]
Cats, mice, & even octopi sacrificed to false gods of conservation
E.O. Wilson sidekick Thomas Lovejoy contributed to rationales for massacring some animals to save others Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III, 80, on December 25, 2021 quietly died from pancreatic cancer in McLean, Virginia, just 24 hours before the death of E.O. Wilson, 92, in Burlington, Massachusetts. (See E.O. Wilson, counter-evolutionary “evolutionary biologist,” dies at 92.) […]
E.O. Wilson, counter-evolutionary “evolutionary biologist,” dies at 92
E.O. Wilson considered himself the Charles Darwin of our time, but contradicted many basic Darwinian precepts Edward Osborne Wilson, 92, better known as E.O. Wilson, died on December 26, 2021 in Burlington, Massachusetts, 16 miles north of Cambridge, where he was for 46 years a star member of the Harvard University biology faculty. Wilson was perhaps […]
Hotter climate makes “no-see-ums” a global threat to horned, hoofed animals
Bighorn sheep, deer, goats & cattle are among vulnerable species OKANAGAN, B.C.; BISMARCK, N.D.; ALBANY, N.Y.; MADRID, Spain; LISBON, Portugal––Hardly anyone saw “no-see-ums” coming as one of the most ubiquitous and insidious effects on animals due to global warming. Indeed, hardly anyone saw “no-see-ums” coming even before global warming began visibly disrupting climate and […]
“Asian murder hornet”: surrogate for COVID-19 terror
Or, how two “great sparrow bees” incited a national hunt for alleged Chinese alien invaders BLAINE, Washington––How did the Asian giant hornet, known for centuries in Japan as the “great sparrow bee,” generally regarded as beneficial to farmers for killing insect pests, suddenly become feared in the U.S. as the so-called “murder hornet”? After […]
Ravaging Asia & Africa: a much deadlier plague than COVID-19
World fiddles while grasshoppers munch NINGBO, China; NAIROBI, Kenya––A much deadlier plague than the COVID-19 coronavirus is sweeping westward from China through Pakistan, across Central Asia, and throughout the Horn of Africa, flying 100 miles a day, devouring crops enough to feed as many as 34 million people, according to the United Nations Food […]
“Cry Me A Cockroach”: Valentine’s Day sadism & the San Antonio Zoo
Cockroaches & rats named after ex-spouses to be fed to snakes SAN ANTONIO, Texas––San Antonio Zoo executive director Tim Morrow and staff appear to be going full speed ahead with a Valentine’s Day “Cry Me A Cockroach” event, despite complaints from around the world that it is mean-spirited, sadistic, and misleading, promotes a hostile […]
Who killed 2.9 billion birds since 1970? Not cats, says a look through the glass!
Who killed cock robin? Clues are transparent. CORNELL, N.Y.––The Southern Tier city of Corning, New York, noted for glassmaking since 1868, may hold one of the key clues to the loss of 2.9 billion birds from U.S. and Canadian habitat in just under 50 years. Corning lies at one end of the Finger Lakes, […]