The shocking truth: Crabs feel and remember pain
Crab experts are calling for better protection for crustaceans caught or reared for the food industry after using electric shocks to prove that the creatures both feel and remember pain. Read More »
New baby for ‘online dating’ gorillas
“Dancing gorilla with GSOH WLTM female gorilla for LTR.” One year ago, Daimsi and Buu were just lonely singletons. But this week the amorous apes were celebrating the birth of their first baby – after finding love on the internet. Read More »
Chinese meat trade threatens American turtles
Wild American turtles are being harvested from ponds and streams to feed an insatiable appetite for fresh turtle meat in Asia, conservationists have warned. Read More »
BBC’s Ross apologises over police dormouse raid
Controversial BBC chat show host Jonathan Ross has apologised for prompting police to raid a wildlife sanctuary after claiming that a dormouse was illegally woken from hibernation. Read More »
New frogs and spiders found in ‘Lost World’ wilderness
Dozens of new species including a tiny chirping frog, a bright green tree frog with enormous eyes, a striped gecko and more than 50 types of spider have been discovered in the remote mountain forests have Papua New Guinea. Read More »
Experts’ plea: Let stranded whales die
Well-meaning rescuers who join efforts to save beached whales may only be prolonging the suffering of creatures who would be better off killed, animal welfare experts have warned following another mass stranding of pilot whales on Australia’s coastline. Read More »
Man killed by dragon in real-life ‘Jurassic Park’
In a real-life “Jurassic Park” attack, an Indonesian fisherman has been mauled to death by Komodo dragons – the dinosaurs’ closest living relation – following an ill-advised fruit picking trip. Read More »
Zoo celebrates birth of ‘world’s cutest monkey’
Australia’s Taronga Zoo is celebrating an extremely rare birth of an exotically named Francois Langur monkey. The arrival last week of the bright orange baby – dubbed the “world’s cutest monkey” – stunned zookeepers who hadn’t even been certain her mother was pregnant. Read More »