Zoos

Weymouth’s Sea Life aquarium launched an appeal to its visitors asking them not to eat octopuses because they are “as intelligent as the average pet dog”.

A senior zookeeper at Bristol Zoo has allegedly lashed out violently and punched a fur seal, simply because the animal put a flipper on a set of scales.

Blackfish, the new film from Gabriela Cowperthwaite, exposes what lies behind the “entertainment”.

Compassion and common sense won out this week when Leeds University cancelled plans to host a petting zoo on campus.

Dolphins may be diving in delight this week at the news that plans to build dolphin parks in several Indian states have been scrapped following pressure from PETA India.

Mali was taken as a baby from Sri Lanka in 1974 and has spent the last 35 years in a small concrete pen.

Animals in zoos are denied the opportunity to fulfil even their most basic instincts. Every single decision, including when to eat, what to eat, who to mate with, and when to sleep, is made for them.

Brigitte Bardot points out in a letter to Philippines ambassador that elephants in zoos suffer both physically and psychologically when confined and separated from other elephants.

Many of the women on FHM’s Sexiest Women in the World 2012 list have something else than being sexy in common – they show compassion towards animals.

On a week that marks both Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday and World Animal Day, take a moment to reflect on words of wisdom from the “Great Soul”.