Killing is no answer

Here are 18 steps to deal with monkeys that enter human habitation areas. They do not involve killing them

Changing need in cattle feed

Scientific fodder comes of age in today's era of specialisation and optimum use

News Snippets

Tales of cruelty and compassion from a home for destitute animals

All Creatures Great and Small, a shelter set up by humanist and social worker Anjali Gopalan, is a sanctuary for a disparate group of animals

Dogs for dinner

Fantastic beasts: How the industrial use of animals in Chinese medicine began

Mao’s Bestiary is a revisionist historical account of the animal drug industry in Mao’s China that also gives context to the current …

Blurring identities

Recent cases in the US and Argentina have reignited the debate on granting "personhood" to animals

Animal passion

ANIMALSCAM" Kathleen Marquardt Regnery Gateway, Washington $24

The guinea pig debate

Is there an alternative to guinea pigs in laboratory testing? Two members of the scientific community give their views

Poultry business too serious to be left to industry

What Sudha Murty’s new book tells us about animal emotions and welfare

At a time when many people are rethinking the human-animal relationship from both a scientific and moral respective, The Gopi Diaries …

Cage the abusers

In battery cages, egg-laying hens are suffocated, debeaked and injected with antibiotics. Their only hope lies with the Delhi High Court, which …

Sexual distinction

A new technique enables the determination of the sex of cattle and goats at the embryonic stage

Zurich’s Dr Dolittle is a lawyer

ANTOINE GOETSCHEL, 51, is a Swiss government advocate for animals. A specialist in animal welfare law for 25 years, he explained to SUMANA …

To the defence of the defenceless

Although several organisations espouse the cause of animals, people still have to learn to be compassionate to them

Animal rights primer

Book>> Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs To Know • by Paul Waldau • OUP, New York • US $10.7

CAMBODIA

Indonesia

Barbarism to animals has a hoary pedigree

Through the centuries, human beings have tried to establish their dominance over animals, killing them for both food and sport. Even today, …

Vanishing breeds

While people worry about patenting of upmarket plant products like neem because of transnational interest, India's unique biodiversity of …

Monkey business

Coping with the nuisanceof urban monkeys may be beyond human patience. But shooting or declaring them pests will not serve the problem. Only a …

Zimbabwe's cheetah population declines by 85%

Historically, Zimbabwe and other regions in Africa have inhabited large cheetah populations 

Bad beef

Video>> Animal Rights • USA

Domesti(cat)ed?

Domestic cat gives birth to a wild one, raises hopes of bringing back extinct species

SINGAPORE