What affects us affects cats
The UK Government has declined to introduce new legislation that would obligate motorists to stop and report — or take injured animals to a vet — if they hit a cat. The response follows a petition calling for changes to the law. The campaign urged the Government to extend the same legal protections currently …
The above video might not be the one referred to by the Times but not problem as there are many of them and as you can see they are very realistic. This one has been viewed 23 million times. How many would have believed it was genuine but for the labelling on the video. …
Waymo, the self-driving car subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (Google’s parent company), has faced mounting criticism after reports revealed that its autonomous vehicles have been involved in at least 14 collisions with animals since mid-2021. The incidents have sparked concerns about the technology’s ability to prevent accidents involving wildlife, with five animal fatalities linked to …
The Black Death — the mid-14th-century pandemic that killed perhaps 30–60 % of Europe’s population — is among the most devastating tragedies in human history. For decades, popular memory and many historical accounts depicted it as a tale of black rats, fleas, and filth: rats infested medieval towns, fleas carrying the plague bacterium jumped …
In a recent study published in the journal Ethology, researchers investigated how domestic cats (Felis catus) adjust their vocal behaviour when greeting their human caregivers, and found a notable difference depending on whether the returning person was male or female. (Phys.org) The study, led by a team including Yasemin Salgirli Demirbas at Ankara University, …
