Christina and Sonny

I never asked to live with chickens. Though I grew up on a non-working farm, my experience with chickens had been a few trials with baby chickens who had all drowned in a waterer that was apparently too big for them. So my childhood experiences were short and rather disastrous. Now I live on 1.5 acres of what is called "horse property" outside Phoenix, Arizona. Read more.
Angel and Susan Jablonski

It was February of 2009 when I read Angel's Story for the first time on the PETA website. I stared at the video in disbelief. It would not be the last time that I would witness the disturbing footage. It was February of 2009 when I read Angel's Story for the first time on the PETA website. I stared at the video in disbelief. It would not be the last time that I would witness the disturbing footage. Read more.
Lola, Rosie, Poppy, Evil, and Susan Tellem

Lola, Rosie, Poppy, and nearly 100 other turtles and tortoises live at the American Tortoise Rescue (ATR) sanctuary with founders Susan Tellem and Marshall Thompson. ATR advocates humane treatment of all animals, including all species of tortoises and turtles. Read more.
Tara and Caelan, Harbor Seal Pups
Tara, a Harbor seal pup, was rehabilitated and returned to the wild. The seal pup's journey also focuses on two researchers who do this work, Dr. Sue Wilson of Tara Seal Research, and Elizabeth Oriel, a Kerulos Center intern whose master's degree on harbor seals has contributed to our understanding of their wellbeing. Read more.
Sugar Ray, Katrina Cat
Read about Sugar Ray, a feline who survived Hurricane Katrina. His story is recounted by Kerulos faculty member and Arizona State University Associate Professor, Christina Risley-Curtiss, who was drawn to Lousiana to help in the post-Katrina efforts to rescue animals. Read more.
Beewon, Beetu, and Ann
This issue of Bearing Witness features Kerulos faculty member, Ann Southcombe, as someone who has born witness to countless animals. For four decades, Ann has cared for injured, captive, and orphaned animals. She is an Animal Relation Specialist and licensed wildlife rehabilitator who has cared for gorillas, squirrels, lynx, bears, orangutans, and many other species in captivity. Read more.
Rupert, moon bear
Rupert is a moon bear living in the AnimalsAsia Foundation sanctuary in Sichuan, China. Bears such as Rupert are captured and caged to extract bile from their gall bladders for use in human medicine. In 1993, when AnimalsAsia founder and director Jill Robinson, MBE first witnessed bears on a bile farm, her horror at their fate compelled her to establish an effort to save and rescue bears. Read more.
Morning Star, grizzly bear
Animals are often subjected to humanity’s ambivalence. Grizzly bears are one stellar example. In some areas, grizzlies are listed as threatened or endangered. Elsewhere, the same species is hunted. The tragedy of Morning Star (also known as the “Old Man Lake” grizzly, both from Blackfoot Indian place names) embodies human contradictions in yet another way. Read more.
New York Centre Avenue School Celebrates Birds
In celebration of National Bird Day on January 5, 2010, along with their reading teacher Ms. Donlon, 3rd grade students at Centre Avenue School in East Rockaway, New York, developed a project sponsored by the Kerulos Center. Through science readings and activities, the students learned about our avian kin and the plight of wild birds captured from their flocks and held in captivity. Read more.
Pip and Pino, the Australian grey kangaroos
Pip, Pino, Susie and Mark Rowe and Brett Clifton are people and kangaroos who together form part of a long legacy of “quilt making”, the process of stitching back together the pieces of wildlife communities left from the effect of human violence. The Rowes, Brett Clifton, and many others tend to the minds and hearts as well as bodies of injured wildlife. These individuals and others involved in organizations like the Australian Society for Kangaroos illustrate trans-species community in service and action. The stories of Pip and Pino exemplify the struggle and stress that kangaroos, and the people who are working hard to save them, face every day. By stepping in to save and nurse injured or orphaned kangaroos from trauma to recovery and in so doing help kangaroos in their struggle to survive not only as individuals and as a species, but as vibrant and dynamic cultures. Read about Pip and Pino.
Q, the Baby Beluga Whale

Girija Prasad, Asian Elephant

Tipper, the African Gray Parrot
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