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Anyone with a bird-feeder knows that squirrels love to steal treats that aren’t meant for them. This moved one former NASA and Apple engineer to come up with a clever way to combat these menaces. YouTuber Mark Rober is famous for answering science questions, building intricate structures, and conducting engineering experiments on his channel. He’s recently been entangled […]
Saturn, an alligator who was the subject of an urban legend that claimed he was once Adolf Hitler’s pet, has died at (or around) the age of 84. He was living at the Moscow Zoo at the time of said death, which happened on Friday. Saturn, whose obituary is being published in many national outlets […]
A trip of about 200 goats somehow managed to break through the boards of an electric fence in a neighborhood in east San Jose, California on Tuesday, turning the area, which is under lockdown, into their very own stomping grounds, NBC Bay Area reports. Zach Roelands, 23, captured the hilarious footage below showing the many, many, many goats roaming the streets, and […]
Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, the filmmaking duo behind Tiger King, will reportedly center their next project around Siegfriend & Roy. Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn were best known for their Las Vegas show that went on from 1990 until 2003, ending when Horn got badly mauled onstage by a white tiger. Horn survived, but […]
A pug named Winston has become the first known U.S. canine to test positive for the novel coronavirus. According to WRAL, the virus was detected this month during a study at Duke University. Winston’s owners, the McLean family, participated in the school’s coronavirus research study at the beginning of April, after the parents began exhibiting mild symptoms in mid-March. Researchers determined […]
Netflix’s Tiger King docuseries was an immediate hit, and now celebrities are endorsing a federal bill that would safeguard the types of big cats that are seen in the show. Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite and the Animal Legal Defense Fund co-wrote the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which has since been supported by Joaquin Phoenix, Iggy […]
Two cats in New York—as in, actual animals, not slang for people from the Big Apple—have tested positive for COVID-19, making them the first known cases of coronavirus in pets in the United States, CNN reports. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a joint statement that both cats, which […]
World Health Organization spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said in a news briefing on Tuesday that the science suggests the coronavirus more than likely came from an animal, dispelling a conspiracy theory that the virus originated in a lab in China. “It’s probable, likely, that the virus is of animal origin,” Chaib said, per USA Today. In a […]
A Bronx Zoo tiger has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to an official statement from the United States Department of Agriculture. This is significant because, as relayed by federal officials, the infection is the first known one to be contracted by an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere on the planet. The […]
The first season of Tiger King ends with Joe Exotic finding himself incarcerated for murder-for-hire charges and his Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park under new ownership. But what happened to Exotic’s animals? Kent Drotar, the public relations director of the Wild Animal Sanctuary, has told People that 39 tigers and three black bears from Exotic’s […]
