The use of animals as therapy partners to help people recover from various physical and mental illnesses is not a new concept. What might be unusual is the use of insects and reptiles. We are not referring to butterflies and turtles here, but others in their genera that usually tend to make people jump in fright or disgust. Sure, El Indio (Gian Maria Volonte) in Sergio Leone’s classic For a Few Dollars More (1965) used...
For a long time, the practice of testing new products, particularly pharmaceutical drugs, on certain species of animals to determine safety of use in humans has been opposed by animal lovers. Help may finally be at hand, with artificial intelligence and machine learning systems offering a way out, according to a BBC report. Testing of new products on animals is one of the dark realities of scientific research. The testing has continued though in some...
One look at Company Bagh in Jalandhar, Punjab, is enough to put you off from planning an outing there. Reason? The place is the fiefdom of stray animals and rodents. Company Bagh, one of several eponymous parks in North Indian towns, is nominally under the protection of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Yet, like several historical sites and cultural monuments in the country, it is not maintained properly. According to a report in The...
