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Now, SeaWorld Plans to Separate Polar Bear Best Friends

Since it can’t breed orcas anymore, SeaWorld is setting its sights on polar bears.

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Court Agrees to Hear False Advertising Lawsuit Against SeaWorld

Deceptive advertising lands SeaWorld in hot water once again.

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Roadside Zoo Reportedly Uses Paralyzing Drug to Immobilize Animals

PETA demands action following reports that an Ohio roadside zoo gives animals a drug that causes temporary paralysis, leaving them unable to move but fully capable of feeling pain.

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(Graphic) Man and Tiger Both Dead After Failed Zoo Break-In

This should never have happened. When will people learn?

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Year of Liberation Continues as Romanian Capital Bans Wild-Animal Acts

We’re only a month into 2017, but this year has already delivered some devastating blows to circuses that exploit animals for profit.

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Watch Mother Dolphin Fight Hunters Trying to Steal Her Baby

It’s every mother’s worst nightmare. And for dolphins, it happens all the time.

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Our Purpose This Weekend? Protesting Treatment of Dogs in ‘A Dog’s Purpose’

PETA supporters will gather at theaters across the country to demonstrate against the use of dogs on the set and behind the scenes in “A Dog’s Purpose.”

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Safari Park Faces Online Backlash After Tiger-Whipping Video Surfaces

People were shocked by recent viral footage of a trainer repeatedly whipping a tiger in the face during a circus-style performance.

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Why We’re Glad McClelland’s Critters Is Kaput—and You Should Be, Too

After years of failing animals, another Alabama roadside zoo has shut down.

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Bears in Hellhole Zoo Filmed Begging for Food, Eating Feces

Bandung Zoo in Indonesia has a long history of abusing animals, and those it imprisons are known to suffer from physical and mental health problems.

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Help Penguins Imprisoned for Diners’ Entertainment In Jakarta Mall

This publicity stunt is disrespectful, out of touch, and tragic.

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Video: Skeletal Bears Beg for Food From Visitors at Indonesia’s Bandung Zoo

In a horrifying scene captured on camera, emaciated sun bears desperately beg for food scraps from visitors at Indonesia’s notorious Bandung Zoo.

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Being Terrified on Set Is NOT ‘A Dog’s Purpose’

A shocking video released by TMZ reportedly taken on the set of the upcoming film ‘A Dog’s Purpose’ has people outraged.

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Roadside Zoo Cited After Charging Bear Caught on Video

Bailiwick Animal Park’s reckless animal-handling policies put animals, workers, and the public at risk.

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Ringling Bros. Beats Animals
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IT’S OVER FOR RINGLING BROS. CIRCUS

The saddest show on earth for wild animals will end in May.

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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S., 1980
PETA’s Milestones for Animals: 1980 to Now
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?”

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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