Animal News
The articles featured below include Animal News and some Wildlife News pages. For more about these subjects see also the articles section and some of the study pages e.g. zoology vocabulary. This is page 3 of 5 of the animal news listings.
Thomas the cat, finally home after 4 years
Animal Welfare Alert: European Commission considering delay re. ban on animal-tested cosmetics
Beware danger of antifreeze to cats
UK Animal Charity RSPCA had extremely busy end to 2010
The RSPCA has recently reported having more animals in its care than ever before. These include wildlife (whose release has been delayed by extremely cold weather) as well as, sadly, many abandoned...
New epilepsy research helps to reduce animal experiments
Good News: A new epilepsy research project led by Dr Roland Jones from the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology at the University of Bath (England) is developing a new technique to reduce the num...
Liverpool vets treat Amersham rescue horse
Emotions help animals to make choices
Dogs needed for new study into treatment of arthritis (Liverpool)
Osteoarthritis, a debilitating disease of the joints leading to inflammation and gradual loss of cartilage, affects about 20% of dogs over the age of one. Osteoarthritis, which can result in severe...
Harvest Mice like old tennis balls
Harvest mice (Latin name: micromys minutus) are only about 2 inches (5cm) long. This spring and summer, wildlife experts are encouraging people to log sightings of harvest mice so that records of n...
UK Hedgehogs adapt to life in the city
More hedgehogs may now be living in towns and cities than in the countryside but how they trade off the risks and benefits of an urban environment has been little known – until now.
