Pets are helping Americans cope during a year full of uncertainty, but that uncertainty also includes how to best care for a sick pet amid a pandemic. Veterinarians across the country have adopted new safety measures affecting how they care for sick and healthy pets, and that has contributed to reports of delays and long wait times, which have circulated for months.
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Chicago’s museums have shut down twice now due to the coronavirus pandemic, bleeding revenue as they closed their doors to visitors in the spring before reopening with drastically reduced capacity in the summer and locking up again as COVID-19 cases spiked in the fall. As a unique class of museum, the city’s zoos and aquariums
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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, rehabilitation and conservation organization in South Padre Island, Texas, has taken in nearly 4,500 sea
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In 2003 a young Amur tiger, seeming disoriented, wandered into a Russian village on the Chinese border. Wildlife Conservation Society scientists anesthetized the tiger and determined that she had canine distemper—the first case confirmed in a wild tiger. The feline patient zero died six weeks later. Since then, canine distemper, an untreatable virus that can
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