Posted in Animals, tagged agility, Animals, bunny, bunny hopping, Easter, entertainment, rabbit, Switzerland on April 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Spotted this little bunny hopping in somebody's front yard
Just in time for Easter: a video made by Raffaella Rossello, a colleague of mine at swissinfo.ch. She asked me to be the narrator for this piece on rabbits that jump hurdles.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/video/Hop_bunny,_hop!.html?cid=29972774
Posted in Environment, tagged Animals, Environment, globalization, invasive species, Travel on January 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
He's awfully cute, but not so welcome in Europe. © André Künzelmann/UFZ
Globalization carries a hidden price tag that may not appear until decades after a trip was made or goods were exchanged.
It comes in the form of invasive species – non-native plants, insects and animals – that wreak havoc on the local flora and fauna while forcing the host country to fork out eradication funds.
Results of a European study show that socio-economic factors have a direct influence on the number of biological invaders in a given country.
Read the whole story here:
Posted in Animals, tagged animal cruelty, animal testing, Animals, beauty, botox, Science, Switzerland on August 3, 2010| 2 Comments »
Beauty is pain for the lab mice, © Rama
Crow’s feet? Creased forehead? Sweaty armpits? Botox is regularly touted as a solution in the Swiss media, but few reports mention the animal cruelty involved.
A Swiss animal rights group, the Verein gegen Tierfabriken Schweiz (VgT), has been staging demonstrations to raise awareness of the problem.
“There’s been a lot reported on botox, but very little about the animal cruelty aspect. So the best thing is to provoke,” according to VgT president Erwin Kessler.
Click here to read the whole story: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science_technology/Cosmetic_botox_booms_at_expense_of_mice.html?cid=18032542
Posted in Animals, tagged Animals, Lucerne, mammoths, museums, nature, pre-historic, Switzerland, Travel on February 15, 2010| 1 Comment »
Taxidermist René Heim works on a 60,000-year-old mammoth tusk.
Wide-bucket excavators aren’t the tools of choice for archaeological digs, but sometimes you can’t be too picky. An astute workman was quick to realize the machine he was operating struck something special at a Lucerne-area gravel pit. That “something” was a 45,000-year-old mammoth tusk, about 180 centimetres long and about 50 centimetres in diameter at its thickest part.
Read the whole story here: http://www.swisster.ch/news/society/mammoth-findings-display-lucerne-museum.html
Posted in Animals, tagged Animals, bees, Environment, green, insects, nature, Switzerland on February 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The long-horned bee is the animal of the year.
Swiss conservation organization Pro Natura has named the “long-horned” bee as the country’s Animal of the Year 2010. The conservation group believes the wild bee is a good choice because it calls attention to the millions of other tiny creatures that contribute to biodiversity.
Read the whole story here: http://www.swisster.ch/news/society/bee-replaces-bear-swiss-animal-year.html
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