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1 December 1135: According to Henry of Huntington, while visiting relatives, the English king ate too many lampreys against his physician's advice, causing a pain in his gut which led to his death. [8] [12] [14] [15] John II Komnenos: 1 April 1143: The Byzantine Emperor cut himself with a poisoned arrow during a boar hunt, subsequently dying ...
In 2022, animal rights activist and philosopher Oscar Horta included a chapter titled "In defense of animals!" in his book Making a Stand for Animals, arguing for moral consideration and assistance for animals suffering from natural processes. [129] Johannsen has edited Positive Duties to Wild Animals, a collection of essays from various ...
The deaths of 10 elephants in three days in a national park in central India has raised alarm among conservationists. The animals, part of a herd of 13 elephants, died over 29-31 October at the ...
[1] [2] [3] On the belief that humans have souls and that animals do not, MacDougall later measured the changes in weight from fifteen dogs after death. MacDougall said he wished to use dogs that were sick or dying for his experiment, though was unable to find any. It is therefore presumed he poisoned healthy dogs. [3] [4] [5]
Thirty-five African elephants in northwestern Zimbabwe dropped dead under baffling circumstances between late August and November 2020. Eleven of the massive herd animals died within a 24-hour period.
On Marion Island in 2007, some 250–300 adult male subantarctic fur seals died in a two-week period. It was suggested, though not proven, that this gender-biased mortality was caused by Streptococcus sanguinis, a bacterium carried by the house mouse, an alien species accidentally introduced to the island in the 1800s.
Credit - Denis Novikov—iStock/Getty Images. I f you’ve been scrolling too long on social media, you might be suffering from “brain rot,” the word of 2024, per the publisher of the Oxford ...
It is likely there will be a 15% decrease in the number of marine animals and a decrease of 21% to 24% in fisheries catches by the end of the 21st century because of climate change. [ 68 ] A 2020 study reports that by 2050 global warming could be spreading in the deep ocean seven times faster than it is now, even if emissions of greenhouse ...