animals
A People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals (PETA) activist dressed as a snake was “skinned” alive outside a Gucci store in Tsui Sha Tsui on Wednesday, as part of a performance to urge the retailer’s owner to halt the use of cruel animal practices. A PETA investigation into the Thai exotic-skins industry showed that thousands of snakes were confined, bludgeoned over the head with hammers and impaled on hooks whilst still moving to supply fashion conglomerate Kering with material for bags, shoes, belts, and other accessories. “PETA Asia also visited a facility in which crocodiles are stabbed...
Hong Kong Free Press
Coconut crabs of the tropics are large, cat-sized, crustaceans known for their indiscriminate eating habits and suspected to be connected to the disappearance of American aviation pioneer, Amelia Earhart. Knewz.com has learned that the latter is the case because no traces of traces of the flying adventurer were found where she is believed to have spent the last moments of her life. Earhart, born in 1897, was known to be a non-conformity hazard and defied the norms of her time. From a young age, she carried around newspaper clippings of other females in history who had achieved daring feats. He...
Knewz (CA)
Coconut crabs of the tropics are large, cat-sized, crustaceans known for their indiscriminate eating habits and suspected to be connected to the disappearance of American aviation pioneer, Amelia Earhart. Knewz.com has learned that the latter is the case because no traces of traces of the flying adventurer were found where she is believed to have spent the last moments of her life. Earhart, born in 1897, was known to be a non-conformity hazard and defied the norms of her time. From a young age, she carried around newspaper clippings of other females in history who had achieved daring feats. He...
Knewz
Coconut crabs of the tropics are large, cat-sized, crustaceans known for their indiscriminate eating habits and suspected to be connected to the disappearance of American aviation pioneer, Amelia Earhart. Knewz.com has learned that the latter is the case because no traces of traces of the flying adventurer were found where she is believed to have spent the last moments of her life. Earhart, born in 1897, was known to be a non-conformity hazard and defied the norms of her time. From a young age, she carried around newspaper clippings of other females in history who had achieved daring feats. He...
Knewz (UK)
A great white shark on the east coast of South Africa went from predator to prey before it could digest its last meal, as it was mauled by an orca. Knewz.com has learned that the shark had just consumed a dolphin when it was attacked and had its liver ripped away. The evidence that told the story of the underwater carnage appeared in the form of a shark carcass that washed ashore on a beach in South Africa’s Eastern Cape region. Alison Towner, a marine biologist at the country’s Rhodes University in Cape Town had the dead seafaring beast photographed and the images posted to Facebook. The phot...
Knewz (CA)
A great white shark on the east coast of South Africa went from predator to prey before it could digest its last meal, as it was mauled by an orca. Knewz.com has learned that the shark had just consumed a dolphin when it was attacked and had its liver ripped away. The evidence that told the story of the underwater carnage appeared in the form of a shark carcass that washed ashore on a beach in South Africa’s Eastern Cape region. Alison Towner, a marine biologist at the country’s Rhodes University in Cape Town had the dead seafaring beast photographed and the images posted to Facebook. The phot...
Knewz
New York, and most of the Northeastern United States, is set to brace for the upcoming "invasion" of a species of giant venomous spiders. Knewz.com has learned that the Joro spiders are native to Japan and other parts of Asia, and have vibrant bodies with four-inch-long legs. The invasive spider species has sporadically been the topic of discussion for a few years now, first appearing in the news back in 2022, when the Joro spider was found to concentrate its population around Georgia. The Smithsonian Magazine had reported at the time that their population had "exploded" in the state, with "go...
Knewz (CA)
New York, and most of the Northeastern United States, is set to brace for the upcoming "invasion" of a species of giant venomous spiders. Knewz.com has learned that the Joro spiders are native to Japan and other parts of Asia, and have vibrant bodies with four-inch-long legs. The invasive spider species has sporadically been the topic of discussion for a few years now, first appearing in the news back in 2022, when the Joro spider was found to concentrate its population around Georgia. The Smithsonian Magazine had reported at the time that their population had "exploded" in the state, with "go...
Knewz
A company that bred beagles for medical research agreed to pay a record $35 million (€32 million) in a landmark animal-welfare case on Monday in Virginia. Envigo RMS, the company running the facility, and its parent company Inotiv, admitted to neglecting thousands of dogs at their breeding site. The company was accused of keeping dogs in cages that were only cleaned twice a month, which is far less than the required daily cleaning. Dogs were euthanized without sedation, and many were injured by the metal grate floors. The food and water provided were also not enough and were dirty. US Attorney...
Euronews (English)
Japan has a problem with vicious “ninja bears” that are allegedly developing a taste for human flesh. Knewz.com has learned of a steadily deteriorating problem with the animals attacking humans and eating cattle. According to the Japanese daily newspaper, The Sankei Shimbun, one of the most problematic “ninja bears” to plague Japan was a brown bear named Oso18 (“Oso” is short for, Shimo-osotsubetsu, which was his hunting ground, and “18” is the length of his footprints in centimeters). The animal terrorized areas of Japan's Hokkaido island for four years starting in 2019 and evaded traps set b...
Knewz
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