Switzerland's diverse wildlife is showcased by animals like the Alpine ibex, marmots, chamois, red deer, European mole, and ...

You can't have just one guinea pig – Swiss law requires having at least two, as they are social animals. For lonely guinea pigs, there are even “companion rental” services.

Like radioactive clouds, wolves aren’t concerned with the demarcation of human territory. The previous summer, M237 left his ...

During a routine examination of our department's animal husbandry unit, we found a female Swiss albino mouse with an extremely distended abdomen (Fig. 1). This 6-month-old mouse, which was ...

Swiss animal welfare organisations plan to launch an initiative to ban the import of certain animal products such as foie gras, frog legs and shark fins after a bill to the same effect failed in ...

To this end, it has adopted the ETH Zurich Policy on Animal Experimental Research. The Swiss Animal Welfare Act definition of animal experiments covers experiments on living animals to investigate, ...

According to the Swiss Animal Welfare Legislation, the minimal enclosure area for macaques of the size of rhesus or cynomolgus monkeys for experimental purposes is 15 cubic meters. In such an ...

Here’s why. Read more: How well are Swiss animals protected? The keeping and treatment of experimental animals will also be modified to enhance their welfare. The extension of mandatory ...

Swiss public broadcaster RTS reports that foreign ... the population - in Graubünden they are very careful about which animals are harvested, and where. "Trophy hunting is totally different ...