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8-Year-Old Girl Bites Into the Heart of a Deer She Shot for Fun

She likes the same things as other kids her age. You know: listening to music, talking to friends, eating the still-beating hearts of murdered animals …

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$100K Reward: Mustangs Die After Water Supply Is Cut Off

Sabotage is suspected in agonizing deaths of wild horses who had been saved from slaughter.

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Video: EMS Responders Work Together to Free Trapped Squirrel

At first they didn’t succeed, but they didn’t give up.

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6 Times Animal Abusers Came Face to Face With Karma

These stories highlight the danger of placing wild animals pushed to the breaking point in close contact with the humans who exploit them.

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GoPro Video Captures Spear Hunter’s Twisted Reaction to Killing a Black Bear

Hunters and nonhunters alike are disgusted by this video. His gleeful reaction to killing will disturb you.

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Mountain Goat Drowns After Being Chased Into Ocean by Crowd

This is the thoughtlessness that wild animals are up against.

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Who Is the Deadliest Animal in the Ocean?

It’s probably not who you think it is.

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More Than 20 Animals Died When a Touch Pool Tank Stopped Working

One more reason to stay away from aquariums.

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Baby Seal Euthanized After Woman Stuffs Him in a Shopping Bag

What NOT to do when you see a baby wild animal all alone.

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Fish Have Wingmen, and Other Things You Never Knew About Our ‘Underwater Cousins’

A groundbreaking new book by author Jonathan Balcombe will change the way you look at all-you-can-eat seafood buffets.

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Selfie-Obsessed Crowd Beats Turtle Pulled From The Ocean

Dolphins, sharks, and now sea turtles—people are torturing ocean animals for pictures of themselves.

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Damning New Evidence in ‘Pay to Play’ Trophy-Hunting Scheme

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is engaged in a deadly game of “pay to play”—and Rep. Brendan Boyle is saying “enough.”

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Why Is a Huge Shark Sticking Out of PETA’s D.C. Office Building?

D.C. commuters were in for a surprise this morning.

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Another Animal Pulled From the Ocean Dies as Tourists Take Selfies

Yes, AGAIN.

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Gay PETA Vice President Leads Protest of All Gun Violence at NRA

No one deserves to be a victim of gun violence, no matter his or her race, gender, sexual orientation, or species.

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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?” READ MORE

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

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