ANIMALS
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Μια επιστημονικά αναπόδεικτη ιδέα, που προκαλεί το ενδιαφέρον των ανθρώπων εδώ και αιώνες.
Μιλήσαμε με τη Φωτογράφο Heather Lighton για την Τέχνη του να Φωτογραφίζεις Σκυλιά
Μιλήσαμε με τη φωτογράφο Heather Lighton για την τέχνη του να φωτογραφίζεις σκυλιά.
Dinner with the Ferret People
You may think of ferrets as giant rats that smell like musk and pee. You may think their owners are weirdos. But as one woman who had 18 ferrets told me, "People’s kids stink, but I don’t complain about that."
The Government Took This Man's Raccoon Away Because of a Viral Video
Mark "Coonrippy" Brown filmed himself dancing with his pet raccoon Gunshow last year and got a million YouTube hits and a reality TV show out of it—but the authorities took note and recently took his new raccoon Rebekah away from him. Now he's fighting...
No Dongs, Tits or Sex Acts (Sort Of)
Effeminate cartoon bears annoyed the doctor, so he switched a Sunday morning cartoon's brain with a 1930s wise guy's mind. And that happened before everything got weird.
The Kabul Zoo Is a Rare Afghan Success Story
The tale of Marjan the lion became an entry point for many Americans in understanding the larger story of Afghanistan. It was a narrative of war, hardship, and survival presented through a battle-scarred symbol of the Afghan people, their outlast-them...
The Government Is Retiring Hundreds of Chimps from Biomedical Research
I hate to paint with a broad brush here, but primates in America have horrible lives. Sure, there are your One Percenters like Koko and Bubbles the Chimp, but by and large, the US is one big Bergen-Belsen for our oldest living ancestors. The NIH has...
Animals Keep Photobombing Henry Gorse
Henry Gorse is a young photographer whose photos often feature animals. I always attributed that to his spending most of his teenage summers on a farm in Cheshire, but then I asked him about it and it turns out it's either A) just sheer coincidence, or...
Extinct Animals Should Stay Dead
Scientist Stewart Brand, who has clearly never seen 'Jurassic Park,' wants to bring 24 extinct animals back to life through reconstructing their genomes and then cloning them. Reasons why that plan sucks.
Zanesville
Nathaniel Rich was inspired to write “Zanesville” after hearing the real-life tale of Terry Thompson, who killed himself a few years ago after releasing 56 tigers, bears, lions, wolves, leopards, and monkeys from the animal refuge he ran in Ohio. All...
In China, Tigers Are Being Farmed Like Chickens
Tigers are some of the biggest victims of the wildlife trade, with the rare cats' bones coveted for traditional medicine and their coats prized as rugs. In Vietnam, tiger parts are so valuable that they make better bribes than cash. And in China, they...