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What animal-name cars best match their names?

There are a lot of animal-named cars. Some immediately come to mind (Volkswagen Beetle and Rabbit, Dodge Viper, and Chevy Impala spring to mind first for me) while others may be deep cuts, to varying ...
The Olympian

Don’t lock dogs in the car in WA. It’s illegal to rescue locked up dogs — for now

It’s that time of year when temperatures start to spike. Without ventilation, the temperature inside your car will rise high and fast. Leaving pets in a hot car can cause heat stroke or death — and no ...
The Conversation

Fish driving cars and chimps doing maths: what teaching animals ‘irrelevant’ skills reveals about our own minds

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. These tasks seem completely irrelevant to these animals in their natural environment, so why ...
WECT

‘Call 911 immediately’: Animal Service officials explain the best way to help pets in locked hot cars

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT)—If you see a distressed pet locked in a hot car, there is an important step to take. “Call 911 immediately, call 911 immediately, call 911 immediately. I can’t say it enough,” ...
The Conversation

From bees doing maths to fish driving cars: teaching animals irrelevant skills can help unlock the secrets of cognition – podcast

Scientists can get animals to do the strangest things. They’ve taught goldfish to drive cars, primates to perform calculations with Arabic numerals and giraffes to do statistical reasoning. But what’s ...
Midland Daily News

Michigan ranks No. 4 for animal car crashes, State Farm says

Michigan is ranked No. 4, but this has nothing to do with college football. The Great Lakes State comes in at No. 4 in animal auto claim collisions according to State Farm. Though the number of ...