An orangutan named Karen, the first in the world to have open-heart surgery in 1994, has made medical history again: She’s among the first great apes to get a COVID-19 vaccine. In February, Karen, three other orangutans, and five bonobos at the San Diego…
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Volunteers in coastal Texas have rescued thousands of sea turtles from frigid waters and shores during the historic winter storm and are working creatively to house them as much of the region remains without power. Sea Turtle, Inc., a nonprofit education,…
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Don’t be cruel, bring your pets inside during the cold weather. Pets are having fun in the snow during the winter storm, but frigid temperatures can be dangerous for them. “Certainly if we can bring our pets inside, that’s ideal,” said…
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A rash of COVID deaths of farmed mink in Wisconsin last fall raised alarms that the operations could spread the virus to wild animals or even create dangerous new variants, similar to a variant that led the Danish government to order all mink in the country…
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