By Stephanie Pappas | LiveScience.com – 31 mins ago Want to trick a dog? It’s all in the body language, a new study finds. When given a choice between a big serving of food and a small one, dogs almost always go for the bigger option. But when a person makes a fuss over the small amount,…
By Larry Fine | Reuters – 24 mins ago (Reuters) – Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander is eager for his Opening Day assignment on Thursday, while video gamers were already in action with Wednesday’s launch of Major League Baseball 2K12’s $1 Million Perfect Game Challenge. Verlander, who was 24-5 last season for the American League Central Division…
By Stephanie Pappas | LiveScience.com – Wed, Apr 4, 2012 Man and his best friend have something in common: Both get worn out by having to exert self-control and end up making dumb decisions, a new study finds. Dogs required to sit and stay for 10 minutes were more likely to approach a caged, aggressive dog than…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – When you ‘like’ something on Facebook or read an online newspaper, perhaps a dozen or more companies are squirreling away data on your tastes, your habits, whether you’re male or female, old or young, gay or straight. They mean no harm. They just want to give you, the customer, exactly what you…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With sick and dead dolphins turning up along Louisiana‘s coast, federal regulators are curbing an oil and natural gas exploration company from using seismic equipment that sends out underwater pulses known to disturb marine mammals. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has told Global Geophysical Services Inc. to not conduct deep-penetration…
By Laura Zuckerman | Reuters – Sat, Mar 31, 2012 SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Photos of dead and maimed wolves have pervaded the Internet in recent weeks, raising tensions in the Northern Rocky Mountains over renewed hunting and trapping of the once federally protected animals. Escalating rancor between hunters and animal rights activists on social media and…
PHOENIX — The Arizona Humane Society is in hot water after euthanizing an area man’s 9-month-old kitten. According to ABC15.com, Daniel Dockery’s cat was not fatally wounded and would have lived, but the Arizona Humane Society euthanized it after Dockery relinquished his ownership in an attempt to save the kitten. Below are more details about…
Presidential vacations are typically a working retreat and often draw a lot of attention from the press. The location, length and cost of traveling American presidents commonly garner even more headlines during an election year. This week, President Barack Obama spent the afternoon with his family on the beach in Hawaii released green sea turtles…
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A record number of large scale ivory seizures will be recorded globally in 2011, pointing to a surge in elephant poaching in Africa to meet Asian demand for tusks for use in jewelry and ornaments, a monitoring group said Thursday. TRAFFIC, a conservation group which tracks trends in wildlife trading, said there…
SYDNEY – A conservationist group’s boat that was chasing a Japanese whaling vessel off Antarctica was seriously damaged by a giant wave Thursday — a major setback in the group’s ongoing and sometimes violent battle with Japan’s whaling fleet, the activists said. The wave cracked the hull and severely damaged one of the pontoons on…