Tagged: animals

Wildlife
11:48 am
Wed December 19, 2012

Feds To Review Endangered Status Of Northwest's Reindeer

Originally published on Tue December 18, 2012 5:37 pm

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - The protected status of a small population of reindeer in the Northwest is getting a second look. Snowmobilers and an Idaho county that depends on winter snow sports petitioned the government to delist the animal.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to do a status review on woodland caribou in the Selkirk Mountains of Idaho and Washington. They’re part of a larger herd from Canada.

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Eating Animals
11:29 am
Wed December 19, 2012

Why Don't We Eat Our Dogs?

Why do most people love animals they consider cute, like puppies or panda bears, but they don’t have a lot of love for animals they consider ugly, like naked mole rats? Western Carolina University Psychology professor Hal Herzog explores the paradoxical relationship people have with animals in a new book, "Some we love, some we hate, some we eat: Why it’s so hard to think straight about animals."