OneKind blog
Category: animals
Winter weather brings tragedy - again
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...
