There is more to treating animals in an appropriate way than keeping them healthy. Are we right to use animals as objects of entertainment? From the welfare point of view it is wrong to keep an ...

The prettiest part of rag quilts is the fringed edge around each square of the blanket. To get this effect, take a sharp pair of scissors to the seams of the quilt. Snip the seam about every ⅓ inch.

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

There is much disagreement as to whether non-human animals have rights, and what is meant by animal rights. There is much less disagreement about the consequences of accepting that animals have ...

Animal behavior research is particularly relevant to the study of human behavior when it comes to the preservation of a species, or how an animal’s behavior helps it survive. The behavior of ...

November 1, 2024 • For years, we've been asking, "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Maybe what we should have been asking is, "Which came first: the frog or the tadpole?" A new paper in ...

Animal breeding is the process of selective mating of animals with desirable genetic traits, to maintain or enhance these traits in future generations. For livestock, this involves estimation of ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...

Animal behaviour is the scientific study of the behaviour of animals. The discipline covers study under experimental conditions, behaviourism, or natural conditions, ethology. The British ...

A roofer donates his time and sources material for free to fix a "massive job" at an animal shelter. Rescue teams were called to Ingestre, near Stafford, at about 09:45 GMT on Wednesday.

But his ideas that animals are conscious in the same way humans are have long been shunned. Until now. "There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure ...