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The Smartest Dog in the World (Chester est le chien le plus important aujourd’hui pour la recherche scientifique)
Reportage de 60 Minutes (13.07) Human beings have lived with dogs for thousands of years. You’d think that after all that time we’d have discovered all there is to know about them. But, as we first reported last fall, it turns out that until recently scientists didn’t pay much attention to dogs. Dolphins have been…
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The day my dog was cooked for dinner
By Juliana Liu, Hong Kong correspondent BBC News This week about 10,000 dogs and a number of cats were killed at an annual dog-meat festival in south-western China, to celebrate the longest day of the year. For the BBC’s Juliana Liu it was a reminder of one of the most traumatic days of her childhood,…
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US court could give chimpanzees rights as persons
The Independant Chimpanzees will receive special legal rights recognising that they are “autonomous and self-determining” beings, according to a lawyer who is leading a US court fight on behalf of two chimps, who vowed that “it’s just a matter of time” before they get the status they deserve. Professor Steven Wise, president of the Nonhuman…
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“Les Requins de la colère” : l’industrie du thon harponnée
Telerama « Ils sont apparus sur Terre il y a 420 millions d’années, mais il aura fallu moins de cinquante ans à l’homme pour les décimer ».
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If You’re Happy and You Know It — So Does Your Dog
Wired Ludwig Huber, of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, is interested in how the animals that live with humans perceive us. He has especially focused on how these animals perceive our faces and whether they are capable of exploiting this rich source of information for their own purposes. Huber has studied this in pigeons and…
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In South Africa, Ranchers Are Breeding Mutant Animals to Be Hunted
Bloomberg Breeders are also engineering white lions with pale blue eyes, black impalas, white kudus, and coffee-colored springboks, all of which are exceedingly rare in the wild. “We breed them because they’re different,” says Barry York, who owns a 2,500-acre ranch about 135 miles east of Johannesburg. There, he expertly mates big game for optimal…
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Ne laissez pas votre chat sortir dehors.
Selon Dre Valérie Trudel, présidente de Association des médecins vétérinaires du Québec (AMVQ) Un article de L’Avantage «En tenant compte du fait que les foyers québécois possèdent approximativement 1,5 million de chats et que 24% d’entre eux vont à l’extérieur et quittent la propriété, cela signifie qu’environ 360 000 chats ont le loisir de vagabonder…
