34 crocodiles weighing up to 1,000kg captured after escaping Batam farm in Indonesia

Probably these crocodiles could not find enough food! 😊 Apparently, nobody was hurt!

Singapore floats high-tech fish farm to meet food demands

Recommendable! "A high-tech fish farm off Singapore's coast has come up with innovative methods to produce cleaner, healthier seafood. Using advanced technology like ozone machines and simulating ocean conditions, the farm achieves higher yields without antibiotics. Its founder Leow Ban Tat aims to expand his fish and farm technology, contributing to Singapore's food security goals.

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What’s really going on inside the minds of farm animals? E.g. potty trained cows, couch potato pigs, cows befriending goats ...

Amazing stuff!

"... People haven’t given much credence to the intelligence of farm animals, and neither have scientists. But that’s starting to change.

A growing field of research is showing that—when it comes to the minds of goats, cows, and other livestock—we may have been missing something big. Studies published over the past few years have shown that pigs show signs of empathy, goats rival dogs in some tests of social intelligence, and cows can be potty trained.

I didn’t quite believe it myself, but I observed some of these studies (and the curious goat above) first-hand at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), one of the world’s leading centers for investigating the minds of creatures that often end up on our dinner plate. From cows making friends to goats exhibiting signs of altruism, I got a window into a body of research that’s upending popular—and scientific—conceptions of what farm animals are capable of.

The work may not just rewrite our thinking about livestock, it might also change how we treat them.  ..."

"... The work is part of a small, but growing field that’s beginning to overturn the idea that livestock are dumb and unworthy of scientific attention. ...

In a small room, researchers are herding hulking hogs—just 6 months old but already 120 kilograms—one by one into a run with a treadmill. Instead of a conventional treadmill’s control panel, there’s a grapefruit-size glowing blue button at snout height that the animals can press to run the machine for a few seconds. Today, however, no one seems very interested in working out.

Like a person having second thoughts about their gym membership, most of the pigs step briefly onto the treadmill, then walk off, emitting squeals and deep, belchlike grunts as they exit through a door on the other side of the run.

“We have sports pigs, but also couch potato pigs,” ..."

ScienceAdviser: The sand’s running out | Science | AAAS

Cover story: “Science” Magazine reports on FBN research How empathetic are farm animals and what are they cognitively capable of? Research results in behavioral physiology at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology have already attracted a lot of attention in the past. Now the “Science” journalist David Grimm visited and published an article about behavioral research at the FBN.

What Are Farm Animals Thinking? New research is revealing surprising complexity in the minds of goats, pigs, and other livestock

Denmark to allow mink breeding again from 2023

Good news! What did take Denmark so long for this decision!

As a teenager, I visited a mink farm in Denmark.

The culling of all 17 million minks in 2020 as a precautionary measure in response to the outbreak of Covid-19 was one of those incredible and extreme overreactions!

"Denmark will not extend a ban on mink breeding when the current ban expires at the turn of the year, the country’s agriculture ministry said on Friday.

The government introduced the temporary ban after it ordered the culling of about 17 million mink in 2020 over fears of the animals spreading a mutated coronavirus variant.

The decision caused controversy after it emerged there had been no legal basis to call for healthy mink to be culled. ..."

Denmark to allow mink breeding again from 2023 | Reuters

Credits: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Global Health NOW

National Geographic: Celebrates no more lion farms in South Africa

Such ignorance and stupidity by National Geographic. 

By prohibiting the business of lion farming in South Africa, more wild lions will be captured or killed as long as there is demand for it! What will the South Africans do after they loose their business and jobs?

Farming of lions is a sensible solution as long as the animals are not mistreated!

See also my blog on John Stossel's recent video on rhino farming!

"There are anywhere from 6,000 to 8,000 lions living in captivity in South Africa—maybe as many as 12,000. Breeding them is a multimillion-dollar industry: Cubs are for tourists to pet and cuddle; adults are for hunters to kill; bones are for exporting to Asia for traditional medicine. ..."

National Geographic | Today'S Big Topic: No More Lion Farms

Save the Rhinos with John Stossel

Very recommendable! More rhinoceros farming against poaching!