Articles: animals
Where Is the Love: It’s Right Here, All Around Us
animals, pets, zoos
Perhaps watching animal love will help
How Animals Decide On Their Leaders
animals, cats, wild animals, wildlife
From politicking chimpanzees to elephants earning power using brain power to honeybees fighting for their lives, various animals have their own ways to elect their leaders, or their leaders elect themselves. In elephant groups the decision is an easy one. Both African and Asian elephants and their subspecies live in matriarchal societies. A female is…
Leopard Checks Out Al Fresco Dining Option
animals, wild animals, wildlife
I know the focus these days is on outdoor dining due to the novel corona virus. But this really is wild – look who crashes the patio, albeit very stealthy. How would you like this African leopard company? Wonder if he had a reservation? I wonder if it matters.
Laughing Foxes
animals, entertainment, zoos
If laughter adds to your lifespan as some studies suggest, some foxes you’d think would live to be 200.
One Health is a Hot Topic with Dr. Michael Lappin
animals, One Health, parasites, pets, veterinary health, veterinary technician, WGN Radio
One Heath is how animals interact with us and with our environment – and that topic has never been more relevant than today. It appears clear that the pandemic causing SARS CoV-2 (the novel corona virus) began at a so-called wet market or animal market in China with a bat and likely an intermediary species…
Zoos on the Edge: Conservation Programs Cut While Trump Administration Makes Matters Worse
animal news, animals, Steve Dale, wild animals, wildlife, zoos
One of the greatest values zoos offer, and increasingly so, has been to study, to protect and even reintroduce animals into the wild. However, due to their doors being closed because of the novel corona virus, budget cuts may be targeted to these programs. And simultaneously in the United States, the Trump Administration removes lots…
How the SARS CoV-2 Virus Likely Began in a Wet Market
animal cruelty, animal news, animals, COVID-19, dogs, Steve Dale, wild animals, wildlife
What’s the latest on where the novel corona virus, SARS CoV-2 first originated? On my national Steve Dale’s Pet World radio show, I talk with Kitty Block, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States. She explains first what a wet market or animal market is. “These crowded markets with stressed, scared wild…
Heroic Cats and from Wet Markets to Swap Meets
animals, cat behavior, cats, dogs, Steve Dale, veterinary health, WGN Radio, wildlife
Thanks goodness Dr. Anne Beall, a researcher by profession, became interested in cats. I talk with here HERE on my Steve Dale’s Pet World WGN Radio show about her latest book, Heroic, Helpful and Caring Cats: Felines Who Make a Difference. Beall and I talk about stereotypes people have about cats, truly believing that cats…
COVID-19 and Wildlife
animals, COVID-19, gorilla, gorillas, orangutan, veterinary health, wild animals, wildlife
Q: “Since some lions and tigers at the Bronx Zoo were diagnosed with COVID-19, what about lions, tiger or other wildlife. Are endangered species at risk?” S. B, Long Island, NY A: Your question isn’t completely outrageous. While we know it’s possible that big cats can get the novel corona virus SARS CoV-2 and suffer…
Animals Visiting Animals at Zoos
animals, COVID-19, entertainment, zoos
We can’t go to zoos at this moment – but animals are visiting animals at zoos…..
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