Baby elephant heartbroken over mother’s rejection cried for five hours
Key Points: Zhuang Zhuang’s mother rejected him immediately after birth and tried to kill him, rare behaviour for a mother elephant. Zhuang Zhuang cried with anguish for 5 hours, tears streaming from his red eyes and down his face. There is solid...
Dog and Pig: Speciesism explained
Why do we love one and eat another? In this short article End Animal Slaughter’s SANDRA KYLE outlines the meaning of the word ‘speciesism’. Human relationships with non-human animals are not straightforward. They are contradictory, and...
‘What Pom Pom Taught Me….’
When End Animal Slaughter’s Sandra Kyle looked after a one month old lamb she found out some endearing things about sheep. It is estimated we slaughter more than half a billion animals every single year for food, and also for religious sacrifice. See...
Mental Illness in Animals
It seems self-evident that animals, who suffer from the same physical diseases as we do, can also suffer from similar mental disorders. Post Trauma Stress Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Self-harm, Anxiety, Depression have all been studied in animals...