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18 April 2012
OneKind supporter Maurice Gray has been campaigning for years to cut the death toll on Scottish sheep farms in winter. Last week (10 April)...
Chimps used in experiments show signs of post-traumatic stress and depression
15 July 2011
In humans, psychiatric conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression, are commonly diagnosed after acute, repeated, or...
Sentient whales should be treated ethically
11 July 2011
This is the message OneKind and the rest of the Whalewatch coalition are sending to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) which is meeting...
Pigeons remember peoples’ faces
04 July 2011
New research has shown that feral, untrained pigeons can recognise individual people and are not fooled by a change of clothes. Researchers,...
New technologies inspired by nature
04 July 2011
From early days, the natural world has always inspired and informed humans’ ideas and inventions. Over billions of years nature has...
Happier orangutans live longer lives
01 July 2011
Happier orangutans are more likely to live for longer, according to a new study. A team of researchers in the UK and US devised a method...
Chimps suffer mental illness in zoos
23 June 2011
As they are our closest living relatives and so like us in so many ways, we would expect chimpanzees to experience the world in similar ways to...
Parrots can reason
22 June 2011
Parrots are known to be highly intelligent birds but until now it had not been proved that they can reason. We know that humans and other great apes...
OneKind talks animal ethics with Andrew Linzey
21 June 2011
Reverend Professor Andrew Linzey is one of the world's leading lights on animal ethics and our relationship with the other animals with whom we share...
Three top animal fathers
17 June 2011
With it being the time of year we pay appreciation to our fathers I thought we’d celebrate some of the most impressive fathers in the animal...
Dolphins Use Double Sonar
15 June 2011
Dolphins and porpoises use echolocation for hunting and orientation. By sending out high-frequency sound, known as ultrasound, dolphins can use the...
Penguins coordinate movement to keep warm
06 June 2011
Penguins are remarkable birds who manage to survive in some of the harshest of environments on earth. The survival techniques of Emperor penguins...
Bees show signs of negative emotions
06 June 2011
When people feel depressed or anxious, they are much more likely to see their glass as half empty rather than half full. Evidence of this same...
OneKind interviews Jonathan Balcombe on The Exultant Ark
03 June 2011
Jonathan Balcombe is an academic and also a successful author of a number of popular books about animals emotions: specifically animals' pleasure. To...
Fish ‘count’ in similar way to humans
26 May 2011
According to a new study, fish can differentiate between quantities as large as 100 and 200. Surprisingly, they show similar numerical skills to...
Seals’ whiskers detect fish size
25 May 2011
Harbour seals can detect the fattest fish using just their whiskers, according to new research. Hunting in the North Sea, harbour seals, often known...
Mother and kid goats recognise each other’s calls
20 May 2011
Mother and kid goats recognise each other's calls soon after the mothers give birth, new research has confirmed. The study measured the...
Chimps are self aware, just like us
17 May 2011
Chimpanzees are self-aware and can anticipate the impact of their actions on the environment around them, an ability once thought by some people to be...
Whales have accents and regional dialects
13 May 2011
Biologists interpreting the language of sperm whales have found that these mystical creatures of the sea have both accents and regional...
Wild chimps use at least 66 gestures to communicate
09 May 2011
Scientists have discovered that wild chimpanzees use at least 66 different gestures to communicate with each other. The researchers from St Andrews...