Skip to main content
Georgia Public Broadcasting Logo
  • Watch

    Featured Specials and Programs

    • All Creatures Great and Small
    • Antiques Roadshow
    • PBS News Hour
    • Miss Scarlet & The Duke
    • Finding Your Roots
    • Doc Martin
    All Programs

    GPB Originals

    • Georgia Legends
    • Lawmakers
    • A Fork in the Road
    • View Finders
    • Georgia Outdoors
    • Your Fantastic Mind
    GPB Originals

    Browse by Genre

    • Arts & Music
    • Culture
    • Drama
    • Food
    • History
    • News & Public Affairs
    • TV Schedule
    • GPB Programs
    • PBS Passport
    • TV Highlights this Week
    • PBS KIDS
    • Ways to Watch
    • Newsletters
    • Contact GPB
  • Listen

    Featured Programs

    • The Daily
    • Morning Edition
    • All Things Considered
    • Serendipity
    • John Lemley's City Cafe
    • Fresh Air
    • Here and Now
    • Code Switch/Life Kit
    • Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
    All Programs

    Podcasts

    • GA Today
    • Salvation South
    • Battleground: Ballot Box
    • Football Fridays in Georgia
    • Narrative Edge
    • Peach Jam Podcast
    • A Fork in the Road
    • Radio Schedule
    • GPB Classical
    • Radio Programs
    • Podcasts
    • GPB News
    • Find Your Station
    • Ways to Listen
    • Contact GPB
    • Newsletters
  • Learn

    Featured

    • Chemistry Matters
    • Classroom Conversations Podcast
    • GASHA Go! World
    • Georgia Farmcraft®
    • Georgia Classroom
    • Georgia Studies Collection
    • Econ Express
    • Let’s Go Enviro
    • Let's Learn GA!
    • Lights, Camera, Budget!
    • Live Explorations
    • Physics in Motion
    • School Stories
    • Virtual Field Trips
    • VR in the Classroom
    • Writers Contest

    For Kids & Teachers

    • GPB Games
    • PBS KIDS
    • PBS LearningMedia

    • on Twitter
    • on Facebook
    • on Email
  • News

    Featured Programs & Series

    • Lawmakers
    • Lawmakers: Beyond the Dome
    • 1A
    • Battleground: Ballot Box
    • GA Today Podcast
    • Storycorps
    • Narrative Edge

    More GPB News

    • Politics
    • Georgia News
    • Justice
    • Arts & Life
    • Health
    All GPB News
    • Radio Schedule
    • Radio Stations
    • GPB Apps
    • Podcasts
    • Contact GPB News
    • Follow Us on Apple News
    • Newsletters
  • Sports

    GHSA Sports

    • Football
    • Basketball
    • Cheerleading
    • On Demand
    • GPB Sports Blog
    All Sports

    High School Football

    • Scores & Schedule
    • On Demand
    • Teams
    • Rankings
    • Brackets
    • Heads Up Georgia
    Football Home
    • GPB Sports App
    • GPB Sports Blog
    • GPB Sports OnDemand
  • Events

    Browse by Type

    • Community
    • Donor
    • Kids & Family
    • Screenings
    All Events

    Browse by Category

    • Education
    • News
    • Sports
    • Television

    Sign up to receive GPB Event announcements via Email.

    Sign up

    • on Twitter
    • on Facebook
    • on Instagram
  • Kids & Families

    For Kids

    • Video
    • Games

    For Parents & Caregivers

    • Kids & Families Blog
    • Kids & Families Events
    • GPB KIDS - Ways to Watch
  • Support Us

    Support GPB

    • Ways to Give
    • Planned Giving
    • Sustainers
    • GPB Passport
    • Leadership Giving
    • Corporate Sponsorship
    • Vehicle Donations
    • GPB Next
    • Matching Gifts
  • Search
GPB Passport icon GPB Passport icon Passport
GPB donate icon GPB donate icon Donate
Listen Live Listen Live Watch Live Watch Live

GPB Newsletter CTA

Sign Up For Our Newsletter

News Topics

  • Georgia
  • National
  • Politics
  • Lawmakers
  • Elections

Don't Miss

Don't Miss:

  • New Podcast: Robbery, Inc
  • Federal Funding Update
  • Explore GPB Passport

News Articles: Animals

Monty the Giant schnauzer won Best in Show at the 149th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday in New York City.

Tagged as: 

  • National

Photos: See what happened at the Westminster Dog Show

A 5-year-old giant schnauzer named, Monty, won the Best In Show title at the 149th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

February 12, 2025
|
By:
  • NPR Staff
Katie Bernardin kisses Monty, a giant schnauzer, after winning best in show in the 149th Westminster Kennel Club Dog show on Feb. 11, 2025, in New York.

Tagged as: 

  • Animals

Monty the giant schnauzer wins Westminster dog show

Monty's competition included a bichon frisé called Neal, a Skye terrier named Archer, a whippet and repeat runner-up known as Bourbon and a shih tzu called Comet who's been a finalist before.

February 12, 2025
|
By:
  • The Associated Press
Belle and Maya run a play against pup-ponent Callen.

Tagged as: 

  • Arts & Life

See Spot run: Photos from a historic Puppy Bowl

The pups from Team Fluff weren't the only winners. See freeze-frame highlights from the 21st edition of the Puppy Bowl.

February 09, 2025
|
By:
  • Emma Bowman
Palmerston, the rescue cat of the U.K.'s Foreign Office, stalks past 10 Downing St. in front of the waiting media in central London on June 9, 2017.

Tagged as: 

  • Strange News

U.K.'s foreign office cat Palmerston shows up for duty in Bermuda

The former rescue feline joined the British diplomatic service in 2016 and gained a large following online for fulfilling his duty with charisma. He retired in 2020 but is back in action now.

February 06, 2025
|
By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Pets At Home in Southend, U.K., is one retailer to be selling dog treats made from lab-grown meat.

Tagged as: 

  • World

Bone appétit! Dog treats from lab-grown meat are hitting the U.K. market

Experts say a fifth of U.K. meat consumption is by pets, not people. If Fido eats lab-grown meat, they say, it could cut the country's carbon footprint.

February 06, 2025
|
By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Senior Wildlife Biologist Jessica Thompson and Wildlife Technician Trip Kolkmeyer try use to photography and a drone to help identify an endangered North Atlantic right whale near St. Marys on Jan. 26, 2025.

Tagged as: 

  • Animals

Right whales face uncertain future, but research continues

Georgia scientists who study highly endangered North Atlantic right whales may be preventing their extinction or documenting their demise.

February 06, 2025
|
By:
  • Mary Landers and
  • The Current
A great horned owl sits in a tree at the Massapequa Preserve in New York on April 23, 2024.

Tagged as: 

  • Animals

Don't give a hoot about sports? The Superb Owl might be for you

What began as an accidental misspelling or an online joke has soared into a cultural phenomenon.

February 06, 2025
|
By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Polar bears on ice in Northern Canada.

Tagged as: 

  • Science

Why polar bear fur doesn't freeze

New research finds that grease that coats polar bear fur contains a specialized mixture of chemicals that make it resistant to freezing.

February 05, 2025
|
By:
  • Jonathan Lambert
Prosecutors Jessica Rock, right, and K.C. Pagnotta pose with Baby Shark — who was rescued from the alleged dogfighting operation as a puppy in 2022 — at the sentencing last week.

Tagged as: 

  • National

A man was sentenced to 475 years for dogfighting. The sport is surprisingly prevalent

A man who was arrested with over 100 dogs and equipment at his Georgia home got the maximum sentence last week. Prosecutors hope it sheds light on the prevalence of dogfighting, a felony in the U.S.

February 04, 2025
|
By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Nyota, a bonobo living at Ape Initiative.

Tagged as: 

  • Science

These bonobos know what you don't know

A new study shows that bonobos seem to know a little bit about what's going on in a human companion's mind, and will try to help.

February 03, 2025
|
By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Senior Wildlife Biologist Jessica Thompson and Wildlife Technician Trip Kolkmeyer deploy a drone to search for an endangered North Atlantic right whale near St. Marys on Jan. 26, 2025. Drones are used to locate, identify, and document individual whales. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA

Tagged as: 

  • Animals

A look at the search for endangered right whales off Coastal Georgia

A day on the water with researchers shows how they monitor the rare animals in their calving grounds.

February 03, 2025
|
By:
  • Justin Taylor
In almost every species, ear movement can be a clue that the animal is trying to pay close attention to something.

Tagged as: 

  • Science

Your ears can't prick up, but your ear muscles sure try

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

February 02, 2025
|
By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Yoko the baby swell shark was born on Jan. 3, some eight months after her egg was discovered in a tank with that only housed other female sharks.

Tagged as: 

  • Animals

This shark pup was born in a habitat without any males. How did that happen?

Yoko the swell shark was born in a habitat of all-female sharks who hadn't seen a male in years. The aquarium has two possible explanations — and hopes to get confirmation in the coming months.

January 28, 2025
|
By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A rhesus macaque looks on from the quarantine room of a future animal shelter in Nogent-le-Phaye near Chartres, France, in 2019.

Tagged as: 

  • Animals

The last of the escaped South Carolina lab monkeys have been recovered

The female rhesus macaques staged an escape from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in South Carolina last year.

January 27, 2025
|
By:
  • Alana Wise
Taxidermied deer mounted on a wall at a deer processer in Mansfield.

Tagged as: 

  • Environment

Georgia has been preparing for so-called zombie disease in deer. Here’s how the state's responding

The state Department of Natural Resources said it is at this point not concerned about chronic wasting disease, which is fatal and affects deer and other cervids, outside of Lanier and Berrien where it was detected last week. But there is some new guidance. 

January 27, 2025
|
By:
  • Sofi Gratas
  • Load More

Newsletter Signup

Sign Up For Our Newsletters

Connect with GPB

  • Connect with GPB on Facebook
  • Connect with GPB on Instagram
  • Connect with GPB on Twitter
  • Connect with GPB on YouTube
  • Connect with GPB on Apple News

Footer

Footer First Nav (Main Menu)

  • Watch
  • Listen
  • Learn
  • News
  • Sports
  • Events
  • Kids & Families
  • Support Us
  • Search

Footer Second Nav Menu

  • Help Center
  • About GPB
  • Contact Us
  • Closed Captioning
  • Directions
  • Studio Production
  • Program Submissions

Footer Third Nav Menu

  • Support Us
  • Careers
  • Accessibility
  • FCC Public Files
  • Drawing Rules
  • News Media Request
  • Open Records and Document Retention Policy
  • Privacy Policy

Georgia Public Broadcasting

260 14th St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
United States

(404) 685-2400 In Atlanta
(800) 222-4788 Outside Atlanta
ask@gpb.org

Newsletter Signup

Sign Up For Our Newsletters

Connect with GPB

  • Connect with GPB on Facebook
  • Connect with GPB on Instagram
  • Connect with GPB on Twitter
  • Connect with GPB on YouTube
  • Connect with GPB on Apple News
© Copyright 2025, Georgia Public Broadcasting. All Rights Reserved. Georgia Public Radio® GPTV®