Will killing horses in the US reduce their suffering?
Marc Champion writes that because we don’t have horse slaughterhouses, we are making animals suffer more during travel to foreign slaughterhouses. Is that a good argument for killing them here?
Here’s my take:
“On the other hand, aren’t these arguments — “the horses will die either way, why don’t we just kill them” or the “this oil will be burned either way, we might as well be the ones to burn it” — like saying that because some immoral thing is happening elsewhere, we should do it here, as well?”
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The elephants were killed close to the Chad border with Cameroon and their ivory hacked out. It is the worst killing spree of elephants since early 2012 when poachers from Chad and Sudan killed as many as many as 650 elephants in a matter of weeks in Cameroon’s Bouba Ndjida National Park.
“This is completely shocking,” said Céline Sissler-Bienvenu, Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare in France and Francophone Africa.
“Elephants in Central Africa continue to be under siege from unscrupulous poachers. The killing of 86 elephants, including pregnant cows, is evidence of the callous brutality demanded to feed the appetite of the ivory trade.”
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Seal pups use surfboard as a slip-n-slide — seriously cute video as these youngsters try to hop up onto a surfboard with a mounted GoPro camera capturing it all.
TGIF, you guys.
Spotting a rare white humpback whale. Coming face to face with lions. Hanging out with albatross on the most remote atoll in the world. This year we have seen some incredible animal images. We’ve rounded up our most exciting, beautiful, and interesting images from the year. Enjoy. 15 Amazing Animal Photos from 2012
Ocean plastic pollution is a serious issue. Plastics that have made their way into open waters are often mistaken for food by marine animals — and it is no wonder when you look at plastic objects the way photographer Kim Prestonhas positioned them. Floating among the infinite blue, plastic objects look like jellies, fish, polyps and other edible sealife. And as Preston’s work also highlights, a world of plastic “life”forms is what we are quickly turning our oceans into.
See the whole collection via Plastic Objects Photographed to Look Like Sea Creatures
Well, that was unexpected!
(via Weird! Leopard Briefly Adopts Baby Baboon After Killing its Mother (Video))
credit: Roger Eritja/Getty Images
The Eurasian lynx is found in European and Siberian forests, as well as in South and East Asia.
(via Photo of the Day: Lynx Strolling Up A Tree : TreeHugger)
This is the skull of a north African Barbary lion thought to have lived in the Tower of London around 1280-1385. It would have been the most special animal in the King’s collection and is the oldest lion to be found in the UK.
Yes, this is a beekeeping donkey! Watch the video of him walking in this custom suit.
