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Did This North Korean Zoo Hook a Chimpanzee on Cigarettes to Sell Tickets?

Around the world, shabby roadside tourist attractions like this zoo are failing—and harming—great apes. When will the animals’ suffering end?

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Video of Man Eating Live Baby Mice Will Leave You Horrified

In the video, laughs are heard as the helpless mice are eaten alive.

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Horrifying: Spanish Crowd Cheers as Men Kill a BABY Bull

The bull was reportedly still nursing from his mother. No “tradition” can justify this horrendous display of human cruelty.

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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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Walmart Employee Finds Out Firsthand Why Monkeys Should Never Be ‘Pets’

Just when you thought you’d seen everything, a monkey in a diaper is spotted in a Walmart parking lot.

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Video: Orangutan Dressed Up, Ridiculed, Forced to Take Selfies With Tourists

Their souvenir just funded this orangutan’s misery.

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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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Frog Eaten Alive in Disturbing Viral Video

A shocking video of a frog who was skinned, dismembered, and eaten alive at a Japanese sushi restaurant has recently gone viral.

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14 Show Dogs Die in Hot Truck as Woman Responsible for Them Takes a Nap

It’s hard to imagine how terrifying it must have been as, one by one, the dogs succumbed to the heat.

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Video: Woman Mauled to Death by Tiger in Beijing Drive-Through Safari Park

A woman mauled to death by a tiger at this Chinese facility is just the latest human casualty of keeping wild animals locked up for “entertainment.”

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VIDEO: Live Puppies Thrown Into Fire by Group of Children

The horrific footage surfaced in southern India just weeks after a man was filmed throwing a dog off a third story roof in a different city.

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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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Game of ‘Pokémon Go’ Turns Into Real-Life Quest to Save Injured Dog

You can’t make this stuff up.

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Shocking Video Shows Smiling Man Throwing a Dog off Roof

The man seen in the video is believed to be a medical student. Would you want him responsible for saving your life?

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Playing the New #PokemonGo App?

Did you know PETA has a Pokemon parody game? #GottaFreeThemAll

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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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