The Animal Welfare Institute prepares brief fact sheets on a variety of topics related to the use of animals in agriculture. Each of the following fact sheets is available as a downloadable PDF.

The shrew must also compete with animals such as orangutans, which are 500 times their size, for fruit. Pitcher plants lure tree shrews to visit with their sweet tasting sap that, bizarrely ...

Animal fact sheet for the animals featured in BBC One's Hidden Kingdoms. Grasshopper Mice Grasshopper mice have captured the interest of researchers as they hunt scorpions whose venom could kill a ...

This list does not include several species that are highly toxic but are rarely consumed by animals, or all species that have the potential to accumulate nitrates under certain conditions. Toxic plant ...