Backpack edges past Dancing Queen to win the Fat Bear Week title | Alaska
A chunky ursine called Backpack has out gobbled a challenge from an outsized female nicknamed the Dancing Queen…
Botswana condemned for slaughtering elephants for independence celebrations
Elephant meat is common in some wildlife-rich communities, particularly when meat from legal hunts is distributed locally, but…
South Korea: Lost shark draws over half a million visitors
A shark stranded in a canal in the northern port city of Busan has become South Korea‘s latest…
Surgery could give Cornish seal chance to experience sight
The charity said the proposed surgery was a “complex specialist procedure” and the cost of surgery, specialist veterinary…
Who is poisoning Kenya’s elephants? – The Irish Times
The vultures feasting on an elephant carcass fly away and perch on a nearby tree as I approach…
Why monkeys handle conflicts better than we do
Léa suggests postponing the launch by a week. The data speaks for itself, and the recommendation seems reasonable.…
‘Backpack’ declared Alaska’s Fat Bear Week winner
A brown bear known as 89 Backpack has won the annual Fat Bear Week competition, after what the…
Fat Bear Week finalists Bear 910 and Backpack face off for the crown
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Five-month-old orphaned hippo Bumpy found beside dead mother in Kenya finds new family at sanctuary after difficult rescue; bonds with keepers, elephants and buffaloes; to eventually return to the wild
The five-month-old hippo has formed a close bond with his keepers. (Photo: Sheldrick Wildlife Trust) A baby hippo…
Onlookers left stunned as rare humpback whale sighting made off Pembrokeshire
‘This really is some of the best that nature has to offer’Rare humpback whale stuns crew off the…
Barn owl rescued at sea released after recovery in Norfolk
The bird, named Reg, was found 70 miles out at sea by soldiers taking part in the Round…
Rick Wakeman Performs For 150 Rescued Moon Bears
Things are generally quite difficult for the Asiatic black bear, sometimes known as the moon bear. The moon…