Around the world, millions of cats are housed in temporary rescue shelters. These are the world’s discarded, lost, abandoned or abused cats. Many are waiting for a new home, but they can be difficult to re-home. Most of these cats have been through very stressful situations, and they don’t make for cute, cuddly family pets. […]
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Eye contact between a mother and her baby strengthens their attachment by activating the so-called ‘love hormone’ – oxytocin – in the mother’s brain. This drives emotional bonding between parent and offspring by encouraging both nurturing and interactive behaviours. Studies have shown that stroking or making eye contact with a dog can trigger a similar […]
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For two years, the bond between this snow leopard mother (left) and her daughter has been close, but soon the two will go their separate ways and this cub will face surviving in the Himalayan mountains alone.
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The Galápagos Islands are something of a mecca for wildlife biologists and enthusiasts alike. The journey there is perhaps the closest thing those in the sciences have to a holy pilgrimage. While Charles Darwin’s theories about evolution and natural selection would take decades to fully form, it was on these islands that some of the […]
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Intelligent. Complex. Sociable. All words we would quickly assign to humans, but would not dream of extending to sheep, those fluffy white creatures you see milling about in fields – or served up with mint sauce on your dinner plate. Instead, we have decreed that sheep (Ovis aries) are just plain stupid. This opinion has […]
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