Articles: animals
Global Warming is Not Fake News
animals, Featured, Steve Dale, wild animals, wildlife
I am sure I’ll get many emails that this post is politically charged. I’m unsure why protecting our planet, and the fact that climate change exists, has become a political issue. There are 192 nations that believe climate change is real, and, from China to Iceland, they are determined to do something about it. Here are…
Dr. Laurie Hess on Frog Unlikely Companions
animals, Featured, frogs, Steve Dale, veterinary health, wild animals, wildlife
Steve Dale appears in this video with a monkey tree frog and a waxy tree frog with Dr. Laurie Hess, author of “Unlikely Companions: The Adventures of an Exotic Animal Doctor (or, What Friends Feathered, Furred, and Scaled Have Taught Me about Life and Love” Frogs are cool pets – the coolest likely if you are…
U.S. Will Support Killing Defenseless Animals
animals, Featured, Steve Dale, wildlife, wolf
“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” —Mahatma Gandhi Apparently, according to the current political climate, making America great again means allowing for the senseless and inhumane killing of U.S. native predators. The U.S. Congress overturned a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that was supported by…
Animals Starving at Venezuelan Zoo
animals, elephant, veterinary health, zoos
Ruperta the elephant is starving. She is the lone elephant at the Caricuao Zoological Society. That, in itself, is sad. Worse, as described in news reports and from my Facebook friend Darvin Melendez, who lives in Venezuela, zoo animals are dying of starvation. According to a story from July 2016 on National Geographic, at least 50…
Betty White: She Loves Her Animals
animals, entertainment, human animal bond, WGN Radio, wild animals, wildlife
A conversation with Betty White from exactly three years ago (2014), as she had just at that time been voted the most beloved person in America. Listen HERE from my WGN radio on Steve Dale’s Pet World with Betty. We began by talking about her favorite moments on TV. At the top of the list was…
Climate Change Primer for President Elect Trump
animals, Steve Dale, wildlife
Nothing will matter 15o years from now if action is not taken to save our planet. Climate change is explained by ‘science guy’ Bill Nye in this National Geographic video. Climate change is most certainly not a made-up hoax created by the Chinese, as President-elect Trump has asserted. In fact, China is one of the…
When We Kill Animals, We Kill Ourselves
animals, Steve Dale, wildlife, zoos
The world’s biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate. Population sizes of vertebrate species, as measured by the Living Planet Index (LPI), have more than halved in little more than 40 years. According to data from the World Wildlife Fund, if current trends continue, the decline in populations could reach two-thirds by 2020, not sure…
Ecotours.com: Bucket List Nature Trips, It's Wild!
animals, Featured, Ged Chaddick, Gorilla Doctors, gorillas, wild animals, wildlife
Ged Caddick is a real-life, modern-day explorer and naturalist, and we chat on this WGN Plus Podcast, Steve Dale’s Other World. We discuss how you can literally go along with the ride with Terra Incognita Ecotours. And here’s where they go: from the Amazon, to the Patagonia also in South America, to East Africa (Kenya to see…
Trump Kids are Killers
animals, elephant, Featured, politics, Steve Dale
When I wrote about the Trump sons killing big game in Africa (and elsewhere), including endangered species – I’d like to share some of the in social media responses from that post, followed by my comments: “This is all a left wing media conspiracy to get at Trump – which you are a part of.”…
Do Pets Have Emotions?
animals, cat behavior, cats, dog behavior, dogs, human animal bond, pets, rats, Steve Dale
Dr. Jaak Panksepp has confirmed with science what pet owners have known for hundreds and likely thousands of years….our pets have emotions. I was honored to sit down to talk with Panksepp, who was the Key Note Speaker at the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists Veterinary Behavior Symposium, held this past year in San Antonio, TX in…
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