There Are Coyotes in DC - and they're not politicians!
Coyotes, the rangy animals associated with the American West, have been spotted in the U.S. capital for the first time.

Animal rights campaigners launched a hunt Monday in downtown Singapore for a tiger and a bear reportedly being kept as pets in a densely populated neighborhood.

Avian Cholera Outbreak
State wildlife officials report that an outbreak of avian cholera, currently killing thousands of birds on the Great Salt Lake, is among the biggest in years.

Cloned pigs may have lower immunity
The natural immune system of young cloned pigs does not appear to fight diseases as effectively as that of non-cloned pigs.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2004/041026.htm
 

The HSUS Urges Drives to Give Wildlife a Break
As we move closer to the “fall-back” of daylight savings time, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is reminding drivers who find themselves on the roads to slow down and be aware of wildlife activity. The HSUS has designated October 25 – 31 as Give Wildlife a Brake™ Week to highlight and curb the potentially fatal effects of low visibility driving conditions on both wildlife and drivers.

Healthy Animals, Issue 19
is now online at:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/ha/han19.htm
Healthy Animals is a free quarterly compilation of research news from the Agricultural Research Service, the USDA's chief scientific agency.

Wool Industry Combats Animal Rights Activists
The wool industry's promotional body says information is being sent directly to retailers in Europe and the US, about mulesing and animal husbandry. Woolmark says it's chosen to combat a campaign by animal rights activists with a rational, 'back room' approach.

LOS ANGELES - The world's whales, porpoises and dolphins have no standing to sue President Bush over the U.S. Navy's use of sonar equipment that harms marine mammals, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.

Fiberglass Cats Will Strut for Dearborn Animal Shelter
The Stray Cat Strut will take to the streets of Dearborn next summer to raise funds for a new $5 million animal shelter. Yet to be selected artists will decorate more than 30 fiberglass cats, each balanced on two galvanized trash cans.

The El Paso County Department of Health and Environment has determined that a tree squirrel has tested positive for plague in the Colorado Springs area.

Banamine for Controlling Pyrexia Approved
Schering-Plough Animal Health Corporation announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Banamine (flunixin meglumine) for controlling pyrexia (fever) associated with acute mastitis, pneumonia and endotoxemia, as well as controlling the inflammation in endotoxemia such as that caused by coliform mastitis.

A teenager has been diagnosed as having a rare case of human rabies, only the 2nd case in Wisconsin in nearly 50 years, health officials said on Wed 20 Oct 2004.

Charlize Fights for Animal Rights
Charlize Theron is making the fur fly in Hollywood by joining a campaign against the use of animal pelts in fashion, reports Agence France-Presse

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued an interim special rule that will allow trade in products derived from threatened beluga sturgeon as long as that trade is consistent with regulatory requirements already in force under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

New Arrival: Translocated Rhino Gives Birth in its New Home
A set of footprints belonging to a baby greater one-horned rhino, discovered recently in Nepal's Royal Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve, marks the second birth among the four rhinos WWF helped moved there from Royal Chitwan National Park in 2000. The baby's footprints were found next to those belonging to one of the relocated rhinos, proving once again that the animals have successfully adapted to their new home.