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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 [...]