Tag: Animal experiments

  • Do Giraffes Grieve?  The Inner Life of Animals.

    Do Giraffes Grieve? The Inner Life of Animals.

    WILD LIONS of Tanzania HUNT GIANTS | Full Wildlife Documentary Do giraffes grieve? Yes, with not a scintilla of doubt in my mind having watched this beautiful if sometimes harrowing documentary – nature red in tooth and claw. We see lionesses hunting and killing a giraffe – almost nothing goes to waste, other predators and…

  • Infiltrada.  Undercover.  Inside the bunker.

    Infiltrada. Undercover. Inside the bunker.

    This is Camp Beagle which I have written about before. Wonders of wildlife in Norfolk part I – Animal Wild “There was somewhere I wanted to visit on my way up to King’s Lynn, Camp Beagle, on the outskirts of Huntingdon, which I wrote about here: Your Neighbour Kills Puppies; Inside the Animal Liberation Movement…

  • HARDtalk with Ingrid Newkirk

    HARDtalk with Ingrid Newkirk

    Interviewed by the always incisive Stephen Sackur on the BBC’s HARDtalk, the PETA president was magnificent. She was, as ever, calm, assured, and totally unflappable. She gave her answers politely but was never mealy-mouthed. Quietly forceful, never strident. “Animals are not like us,” she said, “they are us.” Her interviewer provocatively suggested that animals do…

  • Starmer, farmers, foxes, badgers, salmon and more

    Starmer, farmers, foxes, badgers, salmon and more

    Sounding and feeling a little like a Roman Catholic penitent at confession, it has been two weeks since my last post.  It has been a busy time – my son turned 18 and so there was much celebration, I travelled to the hugely disappointing Spurn Migration Festival near Hull, of which more in a separate…

  • Camp Beagle

    Camp Beagle

    A delightful and unexpected encounter in our local post office cum corner shop a few days ago with a lady clad pretty much head to foot in Camp Beagle clothing. I expressed my whole-hearted approval and we went on to have a lively discussion of our shared interest in animal welfare. We had both very…