The wild truth seems to be that either no one in authority cares about alleged cruelty in wildlife filmmaking, or no one actually has the authority even to investigate serious allegations JOHANNESBURG, South Africa––Substack browsers with an interest in animals may in recent weeks have discovered a site titled The Wild Truth: Exposing animal cruelty […]
Busted again: the secret life of “Tiger King” Kevin “Doc” Antle on the lam from Iowa
Does Antle fear identification with the ordinary more than felony charges? Charged with money laundering mucho bigtime MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina––Kevin Antle, 62, self-styled as “Bhagavan” and “Doc” Antle, was late on June 3, 2022 reportedly apprehended by agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Antle and alleged accomplice Andrew Jon Sawyer, 52, also known […]
Koalas: Zen In Fur
Edited by Joanne Ehrich Koala Jo Publishing (http://www.koalajo.com/books.html), 2006. 97 pages, paperback. Originally published at $35.00, now discounted. Early in 2006 graphic artist Koala Jo Ehrich produced a lavish 260-page photo collection entitled Koalas: Moving Portraits of Serenity, with an afterword by celebrity zoo personality Jack Hanna, to help the Australian Koala Foundation raise money for koala conservation and […]
How 2011 Zanesville massacre moved Ohio to act on exotic wildlife
46 animal deaths & a suicide belatedly impelled anti-regulation politicians to regulate ZANESVILLE, Ohio––Six years after exotic animal collector Terry Thompson, of Zanesville, Ohio, released 56 lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, wolves, bears and monkeys before committing suicide on October 18, 2011, “Ohio no longer has a reputation as a state with lax animal laws,” recently […]
Myth: that the gorilla Harambe “protected” fallen four-year-old
Infanticide is among leading causes of gorilla deaths in the wild Part II of a four-part series. See also: The myth & mystery of Harambe the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla; Conclusion: what the life & death of Harambe the gorilla means; And the lesson from Harambe’s death is? Well, it’s not to blame mom. Much of the […]
Giraffe killing in Copenhagen brings zoo culling to global notice
Marius the giraffe was then dissected COPENHAGEN––Despite a worldwide campaign to save him, a healthy 18-month-old bull giraffe named Marius was on the morning of February 9, 2014 lured from his quarters at the Copenhagen Zoo with a treat of rye bread, then dispatched with a captive […]