List of Animals articles
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Russian President Vladimir Putin kisses a Turkmen shepherd dog, locally known as Alabai, received from Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov during a meeting in Sochi, Russia, on Oct. 11, 2017. (Maxim Shemetov/AFP/Getty Images) Let Slip the Dogs of Diplomacy!
A very brief recent history of animals in foreign affairs.
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Workers hold a donkey's hide before curing at a licensed slaughterhouse specialised in donkeys in Baringo, on February 28, 2017. The emergence of the global trade in donkey hide attributed mainly to the rise of Chinas middle class and an increased perception of the medicinal efficacy of a gelatine derived after boiling the hides, that is a key ingredient in a medicine called 'ejiao' has raised the price and the rate of slaughter of the animal. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) Chinese Smugglers Are Buying Up Hundreds of Thousands of Illegally Slaughtered African Donkeys
When they’re not smuggling ivory and rhino horn, Africa’s most notorious criminal syndicates are stealing farm animals to make a 2,500-year-old traditional Chinese remedy.
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cats-crop Is World Cat Day the Only Thing That Can Unify Our Fractured World?
Probably not. But here are some cats worth knowing from around the world anyway.
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cat-crop Iceland’s Hottest New Reality TV Show Is Just a Live Stream of Cats
It's called 'Keeping Up With the Kattarshians.'
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armyworm-crop The Very Hungry Caterpillar From Hell
A nondescript pest is threatening African food stocks — and could be headed to Europe and Asia.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ukrainian Separatists Hold a ‘Most Patriotic Cat’ Competition
Though Kiev may contest the results of the competition, the contestants are paws-itively adorable.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watch: Panda Tries Out Zoo-plomacy With a Snowman
Because soft diplomacy is more fun than hard power.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Kerry’s March to the Penguins
Why Secretary Kerry is Stopping in Antarctica Before Next Week’s Trip to Morocco for the U.N. Climate Change Summit
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Innovations: Can China’s Super-Sensitive New Telescope Talk to E.T.?
Plus, a sub that stays dry, a B2-inspired battery, and a DNA scanner that catches poachers red-handed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Freakish Lightning Storm Kills 323 Reindeer in Norway
Getting struck by lightning is, for humans, a statistical long shot. Less so for reindeer.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stopping the World’s Most Rapacious Invasive Species, One Fillet at a Time
The Pacific lionfish has taken over the Caribbean, killing reefs and decimating local species. Could Whole Foods be the answer?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Threat to America’s Electrical Grid Is Much Bigger Than You Can Possibly Imagine
But it’s not Russian hackers you should be worried about.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Britain’s Tories Are Having a Cat Fight — Seriously, Their Felines Are Fighting
After Brexit and a cabinet shake-up, even Britain's cats can't get along.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Australian Lawmaker: I Shot and Ate an Elephant — and I Liked It
Australian lawmakers sparred over elephant meat, and one of them said he liked eating it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 There Are More Domestic Tigers in the U.S. Than Wild Ones in the Jungle
For the first time in decades, the global population of wild tigers is rising, but thousands more live in captivity in the United States.
