Animals Scorecard true 0% 13 Checks mostly-true 0% 16 Checks Half True 0% 22 Checks mostly-false 0% 14 Checks false 0% 46 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 27 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Animals TikTok posts stated on July 17, 2025 in una publicación en TikTok: Osos pardos, bisontes y pumas están huyendo del Parque Nacional de Yellowstone hacia Salt Lake City, Utah. August 7, 2025 TikTok posts stated on July 16, 2025 in a Threads post: Elk, grizzly bears, bison and mountain lions are fleeing Yellowstone National Park to Salt Lake City, Utah. August 7, 2025 Facebook posts stated on January 10, 2025 in una publicación en Facebook: Imágenes muestran animales heridos en los incendios de Los Ángeles. By Maria Briceño • January 21, 2025 Social Media stated on September 21, 2024 in a video: Sen. JD Vance admitted he has a ‘rent-a-dog’ from the Trump campaign to make him “seem like a dog person.” By Samantha Putterman • September 22, 2024 X posts stated on September 14, 2024 in una publicación en X: Este es “vídeo de una inmigrante haitiana que asesinó y se comió al gato de sus vecinos” en Springfield, Ohio. By Maria Briceño • September 18, 2024 Instagram posts stated on September 9, 2024 in Instagram posts: A Haitian woman was arrested in Springfield, Ohio, for eating a cat. September 12, 2024 Facebook posts stated on June 20, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook: Foto muestra a un delfín rosado en la costa de Carolina del Norte. By Maria Briceño, Sara Swann • June 26, 2024 Facebook posts stated on June 18, 2024 in a Facebook post: Photo shows a pink dolphin spotted off the North Carolina coast. By Sara Swann • June 24, 2024 Tom Tiffany stated on April 30, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “The science is clear — the gray wolf has met and exceeded recovery goals.” By Laura Schulte • May 21, 2024 Tucker Carlson stated on May 9, 2024 in an Instagram post: Lyme disease became endemic because of U.S. government bioweapons labs. May 16, 2024 Facebook posts stated on April 16, 2024 in a post on Facebook: Video shows dolphins saving a mother whale and newborn from sharks. May 13, 2024 Facebook posts stated on May 5, 2024 in Facebook posts: Image shows orangutan “stretching out his hand to help a geologist who fell into a mud pool.” May 10, 2024 Brad Holyman-Sigal stated on February 26, 2024 in a press release: “Nearly a quarter million birds in New York City, and more than one billion across the country, die each year from collisions with buildings.” By Jefrey Canova, Ciaran Conneely • March 24, 2024 Instagram posts stated on February 26, 2024 in an Instagram post: Chicken and cows have high levels of estrogen, which leads men who eat them to bald, develop man boobs and be unable to grow muscle mass. March 1, 2024 Instagram posts stated on February 14, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram: Video muestra vacas muriendo “en extrañas circunstancias” para reemplazarlas por “carne sintética”. By Maria Briceño • February 16, 2024 Instagram posts stated on January 31, 2024 in an Instagram post: The presence of soft tissue and carbon-14 in dinosaur bones proves they lived “only a few thousand years” ago, not millions of years ago. February 8, 2024 Instagram posts stated on July 4, 2023 in a post: Protestors in France have released animals from the zoo. By Samantha Putterman • July 7, 2023 Facebook posts stated on June 28, 2023 in a Facebook post: The World Economic Forum "wants to slaughter millions of pet cats and dogs to fight climate change." July 6, 2023 Facebook posts stated on June 23, 2023 in a reel: More than “200 dogs showed up and lined up around the block” for a man’s 100th birthday celebration. By Samantha Putterman • July 6, 2023 Facebook posts stated on April 25, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook: En China se están fabricando huevos artificiales para el consumo humano. 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