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Category: Animals in Entertainment

Watching This Chimpanzee Experience Virtual Reality Will Crush You

How would you feel if you were stuck inside a foreign virtual world?

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UPDATE: Two Belugas Die at the Vancouver Aquarium Within 10 Days

After two beluga deaths at the Vancouver Aquarium occurred this month, city organizers may let the public vote on whether to end whale captivity.

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Update: Infamous Marineland Faces Five Counts of Animal Abuse

Marine life aren’t the only animals suffering at this park.

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Schools Are Bullying Donkeys for Money

Every year, schools, clubs, Future Farmers of America chapters, and recreation departments across the country make asses out of themselves by hosting cruel “donkey basketball” games.

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Chrissie Hynde Urges a Michigan Roadside Zoo to Free Solitary Chimpanzees

Join Chrissie Hynde in speaking up and urging The DeYoung Family Zoo to release solitary chimpanzees Louie and Tommy to an accredited sanctuary.

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Facility That Kept Chimpanzee in Solitary for Years Loses Its License

Joe the chimpanzee is already safe—now the other animals held captive at The Mobile Zoo may be sent to sanctuaries, too.

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PETA India Rejoices as Ban On Use Of Bulls In Jallikattu Is Upheld

The India Supreme Court has rejected a bid to allow a cruel “bull-taming” event in which bulls are kicked, punched, and dragged to the ground.

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Shindigz Pulls Party Prop of Elephant Performing Ridiculous Trick

Images of miserable animals with broken spirits put a damper on a party, and the self-proclaimed “world’s largest party supply superstore” agrees.

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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Ends Elephant Rides

In another milestone victory for elephants, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom will no longer force them to give rides.

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Andy Serkis Voices a Suffering, Lonely Chimpanzee

Planet of the Apes star Andy Serkis joins call for release of endangered ape from roadside zoo.

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Think of These Cubs Struggling to Swim the Next Time You See a Tiger Selfie

People actually pay for a memory of tiger cub abuse.

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Our Work in China is Raising the Roof

The way humans treat animals is changing in China and around the world.

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This Beautiful CGI Elephant Proves There’s No Need to Exploit Real Ones

Two student filmmakers set out to capture “the beauty and innocence of a living elephant” in CGI. They did.

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More Citations for The Mobile Zoo, More Reasons to Stay Away

A new round of citations slams the roadside hellhole for keeping animals in dangerous and dirty conditions. We can help shut it down.

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SeaWorld Tries to ‘Punk’ Orcas With Fake Scenery—Nobody’s Buying It

Um, orcas can tell the difference between a concrete tank and an actual ocean, SeaWorld.

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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S., 1980
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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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