Category: animals

‘Gorgeous’ Rare Female Black Jaguar Cub Is Born at England’s Big Cat Sanctuary

A rare female black jaguar cub, with a coloration seen in only 10 percent of wild jaguars, was born at The Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent, England. Keepers were “over the moon” at the new arrival of the feline on April 6, Briony Smith, curator at the sanctuary, said in a statement. “I cannot believe how…


Hand-Reared Baby Gorilla Gets Surrogate Mom After Birth Mother Struggles to Care For Him

An infant gorilla, hand-reared by keepers after his mother struggled to care for him, has been adopted by a surrogate mom. Western lowland gorilla Hasani was born at Bristol Zoo Gardens in western England in August 2020. Yet keepers quickly realized that his birth mother, Kala, couldn’t manage him. They designed a hand-rearing program, with six…


Safari-Goer Spots Incredibly Rare Melanistic Serval Wildcat, and the Photos Are Amazing

One of the world’s most elusive species of wildcat with a rare genetic trait has been snapped by a lucky photographer at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. Brahmanand Kori, 21, was able to photograph the melanistic serval while visiting Amboseli National Park in Kenya earlier this month. Melanism is a trait in animals characterized by an…


‘I Should Have Been Bit’: Loyal Dog Takes Rattlesnake Bite for Her Owner, Is Recovering

A loyal dog is recovering after being bitten by a rattlesnake in an encounter where she took a venomous bite in place of her owner. Earlier this month, Megan Montano stopped by her home off Vandegrift Boulevard in Oceanside, California, during her lunch break. She let her dogs out into the backyard patio. Montano came…


Feds Seize 68 Lions, Tigers and Other Animals From ‘Tiger King Park’ in Oklahoma

THACKERVILLE, Okla.—Federal authorities have seized 68 animals from an animal park in Oklahoma featured in Netflix’s “Tiger King.” The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that the seizure of the federally protected lions, tigers, lion-tiger hybrids, and a jaguar as part of a court-approved agreement to resolve a DOJ complaint against Jeffrey and Lauren Lowe…


10 Seconds of Terror: Alaska Man Survives Brown Bear Mauling

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Allen Minish was alone and surveying land for a real estate agent in a wooded, remote part of Alaska, putting some numbers into his GPS unit when he looked up and saw a large brown bear walking about 30 feet away. “I saw him and he saw me at the same time, and it’s…


Surfer Killed in Shark Attack on Australia’s East Coast

SYDNEY—A man has been killed in a suspected shark attack on Tuesday off a popular beach on the mid-north coast of Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state, rescuers and police said. Emergency services were called to Tuncurry beach, more than 300 kms (186 miles) north of Sydney, after reports of the shark attack, NSW police…


Herds of Goats Help Protect City From Fire Season

The city of Yorba Linda, California, has commissioned herds of goats to help mow down weeds in preparation for the upcoming fire season. The bearded mammals will patrol the city’s West Bastanchury site from May 19 to May 30 under a $13,000 pilot program approved by the city council on May 4. The goats come…


Premature Baby Gorilla Rejected by Mom Is Hand-Reared, Then Adopted by Her Own Great-Grandma

After being born six weeks prematurely, a baby gorilla was rejected by her mother. However, keepers at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent, England, stepped in, hand-rearing the infant, who weighed little more than a kilogram. Then, something miraculous happened—the infant, Yaoundé, was adopted by her own great-grandmother. Yaoundé was born in June 2019. In…


Courier Companies in China Deliver Live Animals in Sealed Boxes

The case of “live pet blind boxes” in China’s Sichuan province recently sparked public concern in the country, with even the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official media reporting on it. The matter involves not only the legal issue of delivering animals via a postal service, but also the just-implemented “Animal Epidemic Prevention Law” related to…