Bella, the former pet goat and mascot of the Sigma Chi fraternity, left her on-campus home in the fraternity’s house for a 175-acre shelter for farm animals in Watkins Glen, N.Y., last week. The animal will remain at the shelter for the duration of its life, according to the Tompkins County SPCA.

Animals are suddenly dropping dead, becoming ill and sterile, and birthing deformed offspring in places where hydrofracturing, or “fracking,” for natural gas is practiced reports a new study by Prof. Robert Oswald, molecular medicine, and his wife Michelle Bamberger, a private practice veterinarian. 

Human-animal conflict is a serious problem around the world, but especially in Africa, where big cats, crocodilesand hippopotamuses pose a major threat to human life. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations published a report in 2009 enumerating all the causes and consequences of human-wildlife conflict in Africa. Christina Garza ’12, animal science and biological sciences, recently explored this issue while researching the Amboseli ecosystem of southern Kenya.

U.S. News and World Report ranks Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine as number one in the country for the fourth conseuctive time.

What is this new, emerging moth?

The VP of policy for PETA writes about student involvement in the fight for animal rights.

On Tuesday, panelists discussed the topic, “Evolution and Biodiversity on Land.” The goal, as moderator Prof. Warren D. Allmon, earth and atmospheric science, said, was to make Cornell expertise available to a wider audience, to go beyond the “buzz word” connotations of biodiversity and to examine what biodiversity really means.

So much love is in the air during springtime that feline communities across America are experiencing a population explosion. As spring is mating season for cats, hundreds of unwanted kittens are flooding animal shelters everywhere, arousing desperate needs for more volunteers and foster parents.

Currently, there is a trap-neuter-release program at the local Ithaca Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals designed to control the wild cat population. The wild cats are captured, vaccinated and neutered or spayed, and then released back into the streets. The cats that go through this program are no longer capable of reproducing and are even less likely to be disease carriers.

Sometime in his illustrious and controversial career studying human sexuality, Alfred Kinsey said, “The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform.”