Do animals have a sense of humour? It's no laughing matter...WHY ANIMALS MATTER BY MARIAN STAMP DAWKINS

Source: Daily Mail - UK

A horse neighs at the London Cart Horse Parade in Regent's Park in 1936. Were someone to tell me that animals don’t matter, I would not trust them with my money or my daughter and nor, I think, would you. So this seems a strangely doubting tit ...
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An Anne Geddes Baby Manifesto by Janet Manley

Source: McSweeney's

That society will recognize that babies were taken from their parents and hidden inside green felt pea pods en masse. That we each have a story to share about being forced into flower pots in emasculating petal hats. That our cries for help issuing fro ...
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Chimps and orangutans have human-like personalities

Source: New Kerala

The new findings address a long-standing debate about whether great apes possess human-like personalities or if such perceived behaviour is an anthropomorphic projection of human observers, the researchers said. The research team used a statistical tech ...
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Will technology kill humanity?

Source: New Scientist

Species don't hang around forever. Homo sapiens has already notched up a mind-boggling 200,000 years on Earth. Is the end nigh? The geological statistics suggest not - the average mammal species celebrates its milli ...
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Cruelty or beauty?

Source: The Star Malaysia

Pet pampering has reached a new level with makeovers like tummy tucks and facelifts. PEOPLE and their pets often end up resembling each other, but image-obsessed Americans are taking that age-old relationship a step further, treating their four-l ...
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Daphne Sheldrick: Elephant Woman

Source: Women's Wear Daily

At 77, Dame Daphne Sheldrick has led a truly extraordinary life. Born in Kenya, she married two men who ran nature reserves, Bill Woodley and David Sheldrick, and had a daughter with each of them. Her own work has been in elephant conservation, through ...
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Fake testicles, facemasks, the new level of pet pampering

Source: The Sun Daily Malaysia

NEW YORK (May 22, 2012): People and their pets often end up resembling each other, but image-obsessed Americans are taking that age-old relationship a step further, treating their four-legged friends to ever ...
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Anthony Browne's Zoo

Source: OpPapers.com

A rationale to support the teaching of Anthony Browne’s ‘ZOO’ Anthony Browne is a very prolific children’s author and illustrator, whom some of the children may already be familiar. It is possible to use this familiarisation to d ...
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The Inner Lives of Animals

Source: 3 Quarks Daily

It is often said that humans are the only animals to use symbols. So many other claims of human uniqueness have fallen away—thoughts, emotions, intelligence, tool use, sense of fairness—what's so special about sy ...
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