OneKind blog
Animal experiments increase – again
13 July 2011
Figures released today by the Home Office demonstrate that there is a still a massive – and growing – problem with the use of animals in...
Edinburgh Zoo planning to host public animal autopsy
13 July 2011
Edinburgh Zoo’s plans to host a second public animal autopsy, with members of the public being charged around £20 per head to attend, are...
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...
A OneKind message in song to Scottish Parliament
30 June 2011
We don’t know who chose it, but OneKind is delighted that the opening of the new session of the Scottish Parliament (Friday 1 July) will include...
MPs defy the government on circus ban
24 June 2011
Tory MP Mark Pritchard may not have many friends left at Number 10, but he has drawn praise from public and politicians alike after standing firm on...
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...
