Whenever you think of Animal Rights what comes to mind? Do you think of animals as equals or do you think of animals as lower than lower class individuals? Let’s say that you were on a class trip to the local zoo. While walking around the exhibits you notice the gorillas are looking sad,tired, and […]
Animals may look cute and happy to see their zookeepers, trainers, and visitors in the park. However, they have their painful dark side while they are in zoos, aquariums, and parks. It is important to avoid capturing animals from the wild because after being captured, they will: become aggressive and dangerous to humans and other […]
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Get startedWhen people think of exotic pets, they think: tigers, bears, lions, and crazy dangerous animals that can kill you with a playful “give me paw”. Exotic pets are more than those large mammals; they are any animal that is not native to your living area or has never been classified as domestic. The logic behind […]
As average citizens, you may know, generally, refers to when a person “rescues” a larger number of animals than they’re able to take care of. However, many people don’t realize, most cases of animal hoarding transpire because the person has a psychological disorder or has experienced trauma in the past. This disorder causes them to […]
Every morning when you wake up in the morning, the first thing you may think about most likely isn’t “How am I going to help the world”? But how would you feel if I told you that you are one of the main causes of species around the world going extinct? Well most people have […]
Zoo’s all around the world are seen as a great adventure to take kids to enjoy the outdoors seeing animals. It might be a great opportunity to see all different kinds of animals but people that go have no idea what it makes the animals feel. There are so many negative things about having animals […]
Almost everybody grew up going to zoos and circuses, wearing leather, and eating meat. People also visited pet shops and bought and kept their beloved “pets” and even went fishing and wore clothes made from silk and wool. Well, it turns out that while people did not care to find out the effect of all […]
The Black Death began in Europe in 1347 and had an estimated death toll if 75 to 200 million people. The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague was carried by fleas living on the back of rats, which were normally found on the merchant ships. The plague reached Sicily in October 1347. People […]
Zoe Rosenberg could be one of the best teen activist for animal rights that the world has ever seen. Through her persistent efforts, she has had outstanding results. Zoe has gone to extreme ways of getting her message out, including running on to a field at a Dodger’s game, chaining herself to a slaughterhouse, and […]
If a person goes into a store, they can often find many products which have been the result of inhumanity. Everyday products like; makeup, vaseline, candy, even glass cleaner is used on animals to test its safety. Animals possibly can be subject to animal experimentation or put into horrible conditions for knowledge on human diseases. […]
This research has been executed by the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) and accredited by World Animal Protection where they have compared expert scientific reviews of wildlife tourism venues with more than 50,000 reviews on TripAdvisor. This deplayed that 80% of people left positive reviews for venues that are treating wild animals […]
Imagine you wake up in a room you’ve never seen before. You look down and your fingers are cut off at the last knuckle. You try to speak, but you can only make a small noise. You start to panic, but when you try to get up, your hands, lower back, and throat burn. This […]
The english author Michael Morpurgo said “Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.” So why hesitate on protecting the animals from suffer, I believe we should pass the Animal Bill of Rights, because if animals are being punish by humans; beings who […]
Animal biotechnology needs to be addressed because even though different species look very different from us, we are made up of the same basic units of living; cells and DNA. This means that we can use DNA from other species to cure or assist in the treatment of human diseases. In ancient times the only […]
Abnormal Repetitive Behaviors (ARBs) are commonly observed in many species of wild animals who are forced to live in captive environments such as zoos. These behaviors are largely studied and well understood by observing these animals in their domestic habitat and comparing their behavior with the ones held in zoos. Many experiments and studies have […]
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.” (Aristotle). Animals are affected by their own environment in many ways, whether it is of their own doing, or from outside their way of living, such as mankind’s impact on the overall environment. Our way of […]
During evolution it is natural for some sub-species to reach a point where they become extinct. However, the extinction of more animals is becoming more prevalent due to human interactions such as habitat destruction, over-hunting of species, along with other activities that infringe upon an animal’s natural environment. A species is termed endangered when its […]
Endangered species have had scientists and environmentalists scared for not only years but decades. Weather it’s tigers, sea turtles, rhinos, or the many more species that are in danger of going extinct in the coming years or decades. It has been a problem that scientists and environmentalists have been warning us about and trying to […]
As many of my high school classmates entered the workforce after graduating, I intend to continue working toward my career goals; entering into Purdue’s Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program. This academic goal was established from a very young age, and I never intend to give up on it. Hard work had been my lifestyle in […]
We studied the life cycle of a caterpillar turning into a monarch butterfly. Baby caterpillars (larve) hatch from an egg on a milkweed leaf thus beginning the life of the caterpillar. The first instar of a baby caterpillar happens after they hatch they are roughly 2-4 mm in length and don’t move as much eating […]
An apex predator is at the top of a food chain. It has no predators of its own. In 1872 when Yellowstone National Park was established, the gray wolf was a critical apex predator in the park’s ecosystem. But wildlife in the new park had no legal protections. Gray wolves were especially at risk. From […]
There is nothing that upsets me more, than people working in companies, factories, laboratories, and even in the comfort of their own homes to use innocent animals to test human products. After it has been proven that in almost all cases, animal testing has no benefit for us as buyers or consumers. Laboratories use animals […]
