SeaWorld: Where Grown Men Perform Sex Acts on Orcas
SeaWorld: Where Grown Men Perform Sex Acts on Orcas

PETA’s new billboard highlights the abusement park’s forced breeding practices.

Everything That’s Wrong With Horse Carriages in One Horrific Photo
Everything That’s Wrong With Horse Carriages in One Horrific Photo

Horses aren’t cars.

Why Groundhog Day Is No Holiday for Animals
A closeup of a groundhog in a grassy field with yellow flowers
Why Groundhog Day Is No Holiday for Animals

Groundhogs are naturally shy, sensitive prey animals who don’t want to be trapped inside tiny cages, exposed to flash photography and loud noise.

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Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation Slapped With $5,000 in Fines
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Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation Slapped With $5,000 in Fines

The roadside zoo left animals to languish in 100-degree heat and denied them veterinary care.

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Hollywild Animal Park Slapped With Nearly $19,000 Penalty for Animal Welfare Violations
Hollywild Animal Park Slapped With Nearly $19,000 Penalty for Animal Welfare Violations

Hollywild Animal Park is fined by authorities for filthy enclosures and denying animals adequate veterinary care.

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Will OdySea Aquarium’s New Restaurant Keep Fish Off Its Plates?
Is fish good for you
Will OdySea Aquarium’s New Restaurant Keep Fish Off Its Plates?

PETA is offering to help the Scottsdale, Arizona, aquarium dish up delicious faux-fish fillets.

Kentucky Vet Admits to Drugging Thoroughbreds
Kentucky Vet Admits to Drugging Thoroughbreds

PETA calls for an investigation into Thoroughbred vet’s practices.

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PETA Sues Over Chimpanzee Held in Solitary Confinement for 17 Years
PETA Sues Over Chimpanzee Held in Solitary Confinement for 17 Years

Our lawsuit contends that Joe is being harmed in violation of the Endangered Species Act.

Why Are Siegfried & Roy Still Putting Big Cats at Risk?
Why Are Siegfried & Roy Still Putting Big Cats at Risk?

Two inbred tiger cubs are dead at The Mirage.

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Bulls in India Are Safe From Cruel ‘Sports’—for Now
Bulls in India Are Safe From Cruel ‘Sports’—for Now

For now, bulls in India are safe from bull-taming spectacles and bull races. But PETA India is working to protect them permanently.

Great White Shark Dies After Just Three Days in Aquarium
Great White Shark Dies After Just Three Days in Aquarium

He didn’t understand how to swim in a tank because he was never meant to live there.

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News! Ringling to Take All Elephants off the Road in May
Three Asian elephants standing among green plants and trees
News! Ringling to Take All Elephants off the Road in May

Instead of forcing lame, ailing elephants to be hauled around the country in dark boxcars until 2018, Ringling Bros. is ending elephant acts this spring.

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Countdown to Cruelty: Live Opossum Tormented in Three, Two, One …
Countdown to Cruelty: Live Opossum Tormented in Three, Two, One …

It’s almost 2016, but a tiny town in North Carolina is still clinging to a cruel event that resembles something out of the Dark Ages.

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Orcas Take Over Baggage Claim at Orlando Airport
Orcas Take Over Baggage Claim at Orlando Airport

Orcas took over the conveyor belt to ask holiday travelers to steer clear of SeaWorld.

UPDATE: Hollywood Animal Trainer Charged with Five Counts of Cruelty to Animals
UPDATE: Hollywood Animal Trainer Charged with Five Counts of Cruelty to Animals

After a PETA eyewitness caught a Hollywood animal trainer on video whipping a Siberian tiger named Uno, the trainer has been charged with cruelty to animals.

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