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Animal Rights Advocate Igor Purlantov

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Strange Love: 10 Animals with Truly Weird Courtship Rituals On Valentine's Day, lovers who are eager to woo their partners show their affection with traditional gifts of red roses, heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, or with romantic dinners at fancy restaurants.

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Adorable Animals Pick Super Bowl Winners Who is going to win Super Bowl 51? That's the question on everyone's mind as the big game approaches.  

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Which Animals Use Tools? Flash back to 1960. At that point in time the best definition of a human was a being with the ability to make tools.

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US Elections 2016: Animals Choose Trump Over Clinton From various polls and different models and predictive simulations, the 2016 U.S. election has been one of the most important highlights awaited for not just by the Americans but the whole world. We've seen enough of the surveys telling who might win,but now can psychic animals tip the lead?

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TripAdvisor Stops Selling Tickets To Animal-Abusive Attractions TripAdvisor, a leading travel website, says it will no longer sell tickets to attractions where tourists come into contact with wild animals or endangered species.

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Animals Rescued From the ‘World’s Worst Zoo’ When a rescue team arrived to evacuate a closing zoo near the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis in late August, just 15 animals remained. 

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Americans Love Animals More Than They Used To There are 48 days until the presidential election, and it often feels as if we Americans are at each other’s throats.

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Watch Shelter Animals Get New Beds Stop what you're doing because we've found it — the most "aw" inducing animal video ever. The RSPCA animal shelter in Victoria, Australia, recently put out a call to animal lovers to donate their old pet's beds to the charity.

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Biggest Animals in Ocean More Likely to Go Extinct What happens when you remove all the biggest animals from the ocean? Stick around for the next few thousand years and you might find out.

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Smart Animals: Ground Squirrel Use the Sun for Navigation A new study revealed that ground squirrels temporarily rely of the position of the sun to roughly serve as a navigational aide to find the storage place of their foods. 

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Pioneering ‘Diaries’ Reveal The Secret Lives of Animals How do you tell if an elephant is having a good day? Or spy on the nocturnal squid-catching skills of the albatross?

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We Have to Stop Loving Animals to Death Ten of the highest-grossing box-office releases are about animals, including “Finding Dory,” “The Jungle Book,” “Zootopia,” “The Secret Life of Pets” and “Kung Fu Panda.” Nearly half of our households include a dog and nearly 40 percent have a cat. Two-thirds of us view them as family members and cherish them accordingly. We love our animals to death.  Literally.

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How to Help Pets, Other Animals Affected by Louisiana Flooding With thousands of residents displaced across East Baton Rouge Parish and throughout Acadiana by the Louisiana Flood of 2016, there are countless pets and animals likewise in need of supplies and shelter. 

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Stray Dog Follows Flight Attendant Around Until She Adopts Him

Stray Dog Follows Flight Attendant Around Until She Adopts Him

  Humans don’t have soulmates, but we can always pretend that dogs do. Olivia Sievers is a flight attendant from Germany who routinely flies to Argentina. Earlier this year, Sievers found a stray dog hovering near the hotel where she stays in Buenos Aires. Sievers was immediately drawn to the dog. But while she had no plans to further the relationship, their connection only got stronger. Less…

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Video: Italian Coast Guard Saves Kitten A crew of the Italian Coast Guard of Marsala retrieves a kitten and revives him at sea.

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Ask Smithsonian: Can Animals Predict Earthquakes? Earthquakes are frightening events, striking without notice. But some believe there is an early-warning system: animals.Over the centuries, people have reported seeing animals head for the hills or leave their burrows in the weeks, days or hours before a temblor hits.

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“If Animals Matter Morally, Then We Cannot Treat Them As Commodities” Gary L. Francione is a controversial figure in the modern animal rights movement, known for his “abolitionist approach” towards animal rights.