Compassion transcends age. Laura Moll—a 12-year-old vegetarian from New Delhi, India—is a role model to children and adults alike. The aspiring veterinarian volunteers at the Friendicoes Society for the Eradication of Cruelty to Animals, a local animal shelter, and records her efforts to help animals on her moving Web site. Warning: The beautiful and … Read more »
A beluga whale named Nico died this week at SeaWorld San Antonio, where he was being temporarily housed while the Georgia Aquarium underwent renovations. This marks the third time in the last three years that a beluga whale from the Georgia Aquarium has died. drake.marin.k12 / CC The cause of Nico’s death has … Read more »
When I was in elementary school, I had a friend named Katie. We slept over at each other’s houses, hung out during recess, and wore the same clothes, pretending to be twins. I was so ready to give her the other half of my best-friend necklace—but then I heard her talking smack about me in … Read more »
MagazinePK / CC Tons! No, we didn’t mean it like that. Jessica knows what it’s like to live in a fishbowl, and although she may not be the brightest bulb in the room, we’re hoping that she might empathize with whales and dolphins who are forced to be on display their entire lives and cancel … Read more »
ics / CC C’mon, it makes more sense than Dollywood! And it could really happen—now that Anheuser-Busch is being taken over by InBev, a Belgium-based beverage giant, and InBev is thinking of selling SeaWorld to finance the new business venture. PETA sent a letter to the CEO of InBev this morning offering to buy the … Read more »
AwesomeFlorida / CC Discovery Cove doesn’t sound like such a fun place when what you’re discovering is that animals kept in captivity and forced to perform stupid stunts in a pool the size, to them, of a sink tend to die young. This past weekend, a dolphin named Sharky collided with another dolphin during a … Read more »
