Month: September 2022

Trash bags filled with decapitated chickens and goats were discovered on Long Island over the weekend — likely the grisly remains of animal sacrifice rituals, cops said Monday.

An occult specialist who works with authorities in such cases has said animals are often sacrificed as part of black-magic rituals against targeted individuals.

Animal control authorities contacted police after finding the latest remains roughly 100 feet south of the Northern State Parkway in Melville, Suffolk County.

Suffolk police said the black bags contained the rotting carcasses of five beheaded chickens and two decapitated goats.

A variety of fruits and vegetables — also believed to be used in the rituals — were found nearby.

Joseph Henney, 69, grew up on a farm in the same area of ​​Dover, Pennsylvania he lives in now. From a young age, Henney was surrounded by a wide range of animals, such as cattle, coyotes, snakes and hogs, which makes owning a pet alligator perhaps the least surprising thing about him.

But Henney’s gator companion Wally is not an ordinary pet – he’s an official emotional support animal and one that is now somewhat famous after video of Henney and Wally walking together in Philadelphia’s Love Park went viral and triggered a slew of news headlines.

The story of how the pair came together is a remarkable one.

Five years ago, Henney was depressed and lonely after some of his closest friends and family members died around the same time. A fellow animal-rescuer friend in Florida brought a baby alligator, then just 20in long, to Henney. Soon, he was

A Lake County woman appeared in court Thursday for trying to turn a stray dog ​​into the wrong animal shelter.

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Hunter File said she spotted a dog while on her way to the grocery store in Orange County last month.

Read: Petco Love donates $50K to support Orange County Animal Services

When File ran into obstacles while trying to surrender the dog in Orange County, she took it to Lake County.

Read: Orange County Animal Services reaches capacity, stops accepting surrendered pets

Animal Services would not take the dog from her because she did not find the dog in that county.

Schoolchildren in Minnesota learn that bison once roamed the prairies and passenger pigeons darkened the skies. But gazelle-like pronghorns? Whooping cranes? Wolverines? A mussel called a fat pocketbook?

These too, are among the 50 species driven out of Minnesota since Europeans arrived in the state in the 1600s, according to a Star Tribune analysis of species data from the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Each loss leaves some tiny holes in complex ecosystems where everything has its own part to play. Every disappearance eliminates one small piece of the wild that we depend on to nourish our bodies and soul.

The “List of the Lost,” let’s call it, is a serious undercount, say scientists who have reviewed it. Yet it is

Humans weren’t the only ones to develop bad habits during lockdown. According to new research, some primates in zoos became more solitary and sedentary, and others displayed more sexually and physically dominant behaviour.

The study compared the behavior of bonobos, chimpanzees, baboons and gorillas in a zoo and safari park in 2020, when they were hidden from the gaze of humans during lockdown, with how they behaved after visitors returned.

Olive baboons performed less sexual and dominance behavior when visitors came back than they had shown during lockdown, the researchers observed.

They also approached visitor cars more frequently than they had the ranger’s vehicle when the park was closed.

The study, published in the journal Animals, found that when visitors returned bonobos and gorillas spent less time alone and gorillas spent less time resting.

The chimpanzees that were studied at more and engaged more with their enclosures when the zoo

A new study investigates which animals will best survive climate change.

As the average global temperature increases, extreme weather events like prolonged droughts and heavy downpours are becoming more frequent, and they will only become worse in the coming decades. What will happen to the planet’s ecosystems?

“That is the big question and the background for our study,” said biologist John Jackson. Jackson, along with his biological colleagues Christie Le Coeur from the University of Oslo and Owen Jones from the University of Southern Denmark, recently published a new study in the journal eLife.

John Jackson currently attends Oxford University but was at the University of Southern Denmark at the time of the study. Owen Jones is an associate professor at the Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Squalor, garbage and a lingering foul odor are all that is left at the East Bakersfield home where 22-year-old Annie Schreiber allegedly operated an unlicensed private animal boarding and training business, according to Bakersfield Police.

“Animals were always in the backyard and barking was coming from the inside the house all the time,” Lisa Lopez, a neighbor, said.

That was a common sight for Lopez.

Lopez believes Schreiber had only been renting the home next door for about 6 months.

“I would see her, and I knew something was wrong, but I just couldn’t pinpoint it,” Lopez said. “About two months ago that’s when it got concerning because the smell was overwhelming, and we couldn’t figure out what was going on.”

That intense odor pushed Lopez to call authorities to figure out what