This post is in response to 'Are Wild Animals Always Happier Than Captive Animals?' By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Can captive animals be happy? In a recent Psychology Today post, Marc Bekoff cites Janis Joplin ...

Quick Take Indonesia successfully completed a nationwide ban on elephant riding for 100 captive animals. The elephants in captivity will now partake in ethical tourism. Elephants used for ...

Our purpose here is simply to call attention to the fact that studies on captive animals who are living under unnatural conditions and unknowingly stressed can produce misleading results and it's not ...

The results from the final biomedical research trial on captive chimpanzees for the foreseeable future have been published today in the journal Scientific Reports. Keeping Killer whales in zoos and ...

Captive tigers in the United States outnumber those living in the wild. The World Wildlife Federation estimates around 5,000 of the big cats reside in the U.S., mostly owned by private citizens. The ...

There are 18 captive orcas in the US. They all live at SeaWorld parks. SeaWorld has stopped its orca breeding program. Animal activists and SeaWorld don't agree on what's best for the remaining 18 ...

Six Flags Urged to Permanently Shut Down Exhibit After Captive Animal Suffered 'Traumatic' Conditions originally appeared on Parade. Animal welfare advocates are calling for the release of an African ...

Animal activists fought a long-standing battle for the release of Lolita, the once iconic attraction at the Miami Seaquarium, only to learn the orca died shortly after the aquatic park agreed to ...

An elephant in the street is now a common sight for Chinese residents of the animals' home territory on the Myanmar-Laos border, where a recovering elephant ...

Wildlife releases are usually joyous events. Uplifting scenes of animals cautiously nosing the air as they take their first ...

The plight of a young, abandoned macaque monkey in Japan has tugged at heartstrings around the world. If we recognise animals' capacity for distress, what responsibility does that entail?

Why did the Alaska Sealife Center send a walrus calf to Seaworld Orlando, a location known to hold whales and dolphins captive for entertainment purposes? Are we really “saving” an animal if we just ...