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Rescuers were last night engaged in a frantic race against time to save scores of beached dolphins in the biggest mass stranding of marine animals in Britain for almost 30 years.

Most days, Moko the bottlenosed dolphin swims playfully with humans at a New Zealand beach. But thi ...

Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere has been involved in a violent confrontation with Japanese fishermen as she tried to disrupt their annual dolphin slaughter.

Somebody hit upon the inspiration that since cats have such a strong disdain of getting wet and always land on their feet that if you attached a cat to a bomb and drop it in the vicinity of a ship, the cat’s instinct to avoid the water would force it to guide the bomb to the enemy’s deck.

Each year in a coastal town in Japan, thousands of dolphins are rounded up. Most are brutally killed for their meat. A few of the more attractive animals are sold at exorbitant prices for dolphins shows and swim-with-the dolphin programs where they are likely to suffer for years.

On Sept. 25, 2007, The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International will join the Animal Welfare Institute and many other concerned groups and individuals in observing the third annual worldwide Japan Dolphin Day. The HSUS/HSI are also inviting individual animal advocates to take part.