For the last six months, orangutans — those great, hairy, orange apes that go “ook” a lot — at Milwaukee zoo have been playing games and watching videos on Apple’s (seemingly ubiquitous) iPad, but now their keepers and the charity Orangutan Outreach want to go one step further and enable ape-to-ape video chat via Skype [...]
Samuel L. Jackson would probably be pretty angry with Karel Abelovsky, a Czech national who tried to smuggle 15 venomous vipers aboard an airplane in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He nearly succeeded in taking more than 200 mollusks on a plane to Madrid, Spain, in his checked luggage, but airport screeners discovered from an x-ray that [...]
A month-old polar bear cub who became an internet sensation has opened his eyes for the first time. Siku gained scores of fans around the world when images and video were shown of him on the website of the Scandinavian Wildlife Park in Kolind, Denmark. He is being raised by humans after his mother failed [...]
The rare encounter caught on camera shows Mr King sitting beside a trail when a family of wild mountain gorillas joined him. Intrigued by their fellow primate, three babies, a female and the silverback decide to sit down right behind him. Two of the gorillas then start touching the wildelife enthusiast’s hair and sniff him [...]
A dog had a miraculous escape after leaping off a roof and falling 50 feet on to a ledge at an apartment block. Kai, a two-year-old Shiba Inu, bounded over the side of the roof garden after his owner Tracy Aron took him up for his morning exercise.
Despite an aggressive campaign by animal rights activists to stop it, New Jersey’s black bear hunt has begun. More than 6,400 permits have been issued, allowing hunters to patrol 1,000 square miles of northern New Jersey, which, according to officials, has one of the densest black bear populations in the nation. The state Department of [...]
A Miami-Dade man was arrested Saturday on animal cruelty charges after police raided a Hialeah slaughterhouse where blood and other fluids seeped into the ground, potentially endangering the city’s water, authorities said. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said the accused slaughterhouse operator Rudesindo “Rudy” Acosta, 57, was caught on a video camera “brutally beating [...]
A female African elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park has died, possibly from injuries suffered in an attack by another elephant, zoo officials said Thursday. The 21-year-old elephant named Umoya was found lying on the ground Thursday morning with severe injuries and died before keepers could arrive to offer help. A post-mortem [...]
“Big Splash” aka Hong Dong- Most Expensive Dog In The World Genghis Khan had one, legend says. So did the Buddha. And now, the prized red Tibetan mastiff, thought to be one of the world’s oldest and most venerable breeds, has another distinction: One of the massive, fluffy dogs has become the most expensive [...]
The animals included 216 budgies, 300 white mice, 150 hamsters, 30 Japanese squirrels, six chameleons and more than 1,000 terrapins. Traffic Police made the discovery when they pulled the vehicle over for a routine car check. The officers were amazed to find the animals in stacked boxes when driver Francesco Lombardo opened the boot. Related [...]