Animals in Our World Archive

In 1959, Captain V. Sundaram, his wife Usha and their son, S. Chinny Krishna (then almost 15 years old), were three of the four founding members of the Animal Aid Association in Madras (now Chennai) in southern India. 1964, the organization was formally registered as...

Book review of Cowpuppy by Gregory Berns, published by Harper Collins, 2024 As in the immortal film classic about the rescue of Elsa the baby lion, where the opening scenes cover the struggle to persuade the motherless cub Elsa to drink milk to survive, Gregory Berns also...

Challenge On July 30, 2024, the Turkish parliament voted 275 to 224 to pass a law directing municipalities to remove homeless dogs from the streets and place them in shelters for adoption. The government estimates there are around 4 million homeless dogs in Turkey. At the...

In the early 21st century, several animal protection organizations in the United States were collectively spending approximately $6 million annually on farmed animal welfare campaigns. In contrast, the animal agriculture industry was worth over a hundred billion dollars in the country, and few advocates believed...

The tiger, a creature of almost mystical, magical, and majestic allure and the subject of Blake's famous 1794 poem Tyger, is battling for survival in its final refuges in Thailand and Myanmar in Southeast Asia. The populations of tigers in the neighboring countries of Cambodia,...

Author David M. Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D., loves intellectual challenges. Previously, he wrote an article on whether or not animals can commit suicide, which has been downloaded over 44,000 times from the WellBeing International Studies Repository since its publication in late 2017. Now, the author has shifted...

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