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| New Scientist Interviews Lawrence Anthony, 'The Elephant Whisperer'
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| posted on Tuesday, July 07, 2009
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From rescuing a herd of rogue elephants destined to be shot, to saving the animals in Baghdad Zoo during the Iraq war, maybe it is no surprise that Hollywood is planning a film about maverick conservationist Lawrence Anthony. When Liz Else tracked him down she talked to him about reconnecting with nature and communicating with elephants.
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| Documentary: 'The Cove'
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| posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009
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Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, The Cove follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practiced in Taiji, Japan. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide.
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| The Remarkable Abilities Of Dolphins
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| posted on Saturday, June 20, 2009
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Dolphin Partly because their brains are roughly the same size as humans, and are similarly or superiorly complex (although differently evolved in structure), some marine biologists have speculated that dolphins, and other Cetaceans, are at least as intelligent as humans, and could have several unknown communicative abilities, that surpass human understanding.
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| Maxine's Dash For Freedom (Includes Other Runaway Cow Stories)
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| posted on Saturday, May 23, 2009
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On the night of Tuesday, September 18, 2007 a cow was spotted on the streets of Queens. She was tagged for slaughter, but escaped that fate and literally ran for her life. Police and firefighters captured her and brought her to Animal Care & Control in Manhattan. From there, Farm Sanctuary's rescue team stepped in to bring the Fugitive cow, now named Maxine, to safety at our 175-acre sanctuary for farm animals where she will live out her life in peace and comfort.
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| Legal Protections For Animals
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| posted on Monday, April 27, 2009
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One of the historical election landmarks last year had nothing to do with race or the presidency. Rather, it had to do with pigs and chickens -- and with overarching ideas about the limits of human dominion over other species. I’m referring to the stunning passage in California, by nearly a 2-to-1 majority, of an animal rights ballot initiative that will ban factory farms from keeping calves, pregnant hogs or egg-laying hens in tiny pens or cages in which they can’t stretch out or turn around. It was an element of a broad push in Europe and America alike to grant increasing legal protections to animals.
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| Wild Chimps Exchange Meat For Sex
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| posted on Friday, April 10, 2009
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A savory meat dinner goes a long way, as in all the way, in the chimp world, according to a new study that found wild male chimpanzees exchange meat for sex with females on a long-term basis.
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| The Secret To Chimp Strength
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| posted on Friday, April 10, 2009
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February's brutal chimpanzee attack, during which a pet chimp inflicted devastating injuries on a Connecticut woman, was a stark reminder that chimps are much stronger than humans -- as much as four-times stronger, some researchers believe. But what is it that makes our closest primate cousins so much stronger than we are?
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| Factory Farm Pollution In The United States
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| posted on Friday, April 10, 2009
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This innovative map, created by Food & Water Watch tracks cattle, hogs, chickens, dairy and includes the number of farms, and number of factory farm animals, broken down by state and county...
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| Military Used Pigs In Blasts To Test Armor
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| posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2009
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Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury.
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