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Dec 22, 2025 Book Review: “A Street Cat Named Bob”

Posted at 03:00h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Book Review, Human-Animal Interaction, Tales of WellBeing - By Steven Hansch and Leslie Barcus

The true story, A Street Cat Named Bob, is an international best-seller about twin redemption: that of a homeless tabby street cat and a homeless Englishman who adopt each other and help one another heal, leading to celebrity status for both cat and human. The author,...

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Nov 09, 2025 COP30: Realignment?

Posted at 20:54h In Articles, Climate, Global Awareness, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

COP30: Context The 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP30) is the annual United Nations conference on climate change, established under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) treaty. This year's 2025 conference will take place in Brazil, from November 10...

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Oct 30, 2025 Beavers in America: Part 2

Posted at 14:23h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals in Water - By John Hadidian, PhD

In the first part of this series, an ancient relationship between humans and beaver, largely exploitative, was noted., Almost gone from Western Europe by the early Middle Ages, beavers were found to be abundant and available in the New World. There, they were exploited for...

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Oct 30, 2025 South Florida Wildlife Center – Moving On

Posted at 14:11h In Animals in Our World, Articles, One Health, PAE Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International and Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Introduction For over five decades, the South Florida Wildlife Center (SFWC) has been a cornerstone of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation on 4.1 acres of leased land in Broward County, South Florida. The SFWC serves not only Broward County but also parts of Palm Beach and Miami-Dade...

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Oct 30, 2025 The Zoology Of Children’s Literature (2025 Update)

Posted at 13:53h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Children's Literature, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

For more than 200 years, children throughout the world have learned moral lessons from stories heavily populated by both verbal and nonverbal animal characters. Whether we are talking about Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddleduck from Beatrix Potter, Babar the Elephant from Jean de Brunhoff, Winnie-the-Pooh...

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Oct 08, 2025 Alternatives to Laboratory Animals: The Evolution of a Goal and Its Eventual Fulfilment

Posted at 10:42h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Research Animals, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Wellbeing International has published several articles in its newsletters highlighting encouraging advances in replacing animals in laboratory research. WBI recently attended the Thirteenth World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Rio de Janeiro. The talks at that event predicted significant...

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Oct 08, 2025 Positive Animal Welfare

Posted at 10:40h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Positive Animal Welfare, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Animal welfare science has advanced steadily over the past fifty years. The International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE—originally founded as the Society for Veterinary Ethology in Edinburgh) has been a key platform for developments in this field. The society held its 58th conference in Utrecht...

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Sep 22, 2025 Beavers in America: Part 1

Posted at 16:40h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals on Land - By John Hadidian, PhD

Video credit: Stefan Krisa, iStock Introduction The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) was an easily commodifiable resource for the first European colonizers of the New World. Its Old-World cousin (Castor fiber) had been extirpated from western Europe by the early Middle Ages. Still, an estimated 60-400 million...

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Sep 22, 2025 D[ia]ognostics!

Posted at 16:31h In Articles, Feel Better, People Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

In 2004, the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched its Beagle Brigade. The brigade consisted of sniffer dogs trained to detect up to fifty odors associated with contraband smuggling into the country. International travelers to the U.S. have likely seen and interacted with members of the...

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Sep 22, 2025 Penguin Passions and Plunging Populations

Posted at 16:24h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals in Water - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

It is well known that giant pandas attract a lot of attention from enthusiastic fans. However, it might surprise some that penguins also attract widespread public interest and passion. Ron Kagan, the former director of the Detroit Zoo, created a penguin exhibit that received a...

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