Animal Rights

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  UK report concludes crabs, octopuses and lobsters are sentient beings

  newatlas.com - By Rich Haridy

  A new animal welfare bill moving through UK parliament will now include crabs, octopuses, and lobsters after an independent research review concluded …

• https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2021/10/09/Pittsburgh-City-Council-ban-declawing-cats/stories/202109300034

  

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  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  Oct 9, 2021
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  This crocodile daddy giving 100 babies a ride puts your carpool to shame

  Popular Science - María Paula Rubiano A.

  Gharial crocodile dads are pros at ferrying their kids across Indian rivers. In Indian mythology, the goddess Ganga—the personification of the Ganges river—is often depicted riding a creature with the head of a gharial crocodile, a fish-eating beast that only exists in the Indian peninsula. Once …

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  Schane Gross

  

  US egg producers could save billions of chicks a year. So why aren’t they?

  Popular Science - Jonathan Moens/Undark

  The industry continues to hatch and kill scores of male chicks, despite promises to adopt new technology and optimize breeding practices. Jonathan Moens is a freelance journalist based in Rome. His work has appeared in Yale Environment 360, Inside Climate News, and Spectrum. This story originally …

• https://undark.org/2021/03/15/egg-industry-grapples-with-chick-culling/

  

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  Sushil Shukla

  Mar 15, 2021
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  Wisconsin hunters have already killed more gray wolves than allowed

  Popular Science - Alan Clemons/ Outdoor Life

  More than 27,000 people applied for permits for the state’s first wolf hunt since 2014. This post originally featured on Outdoor Life. Wolf hunters in Wisconsin exceeded the state’s harvest quota just three days into their first wolf hunt since 2014. The hunt was supposed to last a week, but it was …