Animals
Israel's noise pollution upsets animals as much as people - but can be reduced, study finds
Researchers at Beersheba’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have pioneered a first-of-its-kind spatial model that maps how road noise disrupts animal behavior.
Brazil enacts law to allow divorced couples shared custody of pets
As Israeli owners struggle from daily Iranian attacks, pets pay the price of war
Video: Stowaway possum spotted camouflaging among plushies at airport shop
Monkey business: Authorities hunt for missing monkey after truck carrying primates overturns
Law enforcement shared that the truck’s driver warned them the monkeys “were dangerous” and “posed a threat to humans.”
Israeli scientists discover feline herpes can be treated with human coldsore medication
Treatment of FHV-1 ocular disease is challenging; until now, it has been treated less successfully with a pill, but it had to be forced on cats, and they didn’t like it.
Haifa beaches to reopen Saturday after sightings of rare whale shark
At adulthood, the species can reach 12–14 metres and weigh more than 20 tonnes, making it the largest fish on Earth.
Honoring 'The Last Samurai': Fallen soldier Adi Tzur remembered with new home for abandoned dogs
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: After St.-Sgt. Adi Tzur was killed defending Kibbutz Kissufim on October 7, The Magic House, a shelter helping stray and abused dogs find homes, was founded in his honor.
Illegal cockfighting ring broken up by Israel Police, 150 cockerels rescued
The territorial animals were forced to fight each other while patrons gambled on who the winner would be.
New scans challenge the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted giant animals to extinction
A study in Royal Society Open Science by Professor Mike Archer shows no evidence that humans hunted or butchered megafauna in the fossil record.
How Taylor Swift's vintage tee choice is helping to save orphaned, wounded sea otters
Averaging $100,000 in sales every 15 minutes, the successful fundraiser collected funds to help injured and orphaned otters.
Polar bears take over abandoned research station in Russian Arctic
Scientists left the research station, which is in an abandoned village, soon after the Soviet Union's collapse over three decades ago.
Study: Petting your cat sends an oxytocin wave through both of you
A cat's low-frequency purr can lower human heart rate and blood pressure, studies find.
Feathered foes: The hidden dangers of urban pigeons
