Posted: August 1, 2008 2 a.m. EDT
Humane Education Fights Animal Cruelty
Educating people about proper treatment of animals is a growing movement. Small grass-roots groups and massive organizations are turning up the heat to reduce animal abuse and neglect in diverse ways, USA TODAY reports.
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A Sanctuary That’s 600 Cats’ Meows
Feline herding happens all the time here at The Cat House on the Kings, a 12-acre sanctuary for abandoned and feral cats in California’s Central Valley, near the farm town of Reedley, The Christian Science Monitor reports.
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Modern Cat Skulls Differ From Saber-Toothed Cats
In a new study published in the online-open access journal PLoS ONE, Per Christiansen at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, reports the finding that the evolution of skull and mandible shape in sabercats and modern cats were governed by different selective forces, and the two groups evolved very different adaptations to killing, RedOrbit reports.
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