Two orphaned sloths at a sanctuary in Costa Rica have been saved in the most unusual way. To save the babies from parasitic mites, they have been dressed in bandages that look like cute little ‘onesies’.
Passengers on board the Delta Airlines flight bound for New York were in for a pleasant surprise when two special passengers suddenly began strolling inside the aircraft mid-air. The two were none other than Sea World bound penguins Pete and Penny!
A Montana bear took a unique approach to hibernation this year – the bear is sleeping away the winter in a cabin. Molly Reynolds originally thought her Georgetown Lake cabin had been broken into. She was right – partially.
When baby animals are abandoned by their moms in nature, we often see them attach themselves to an unlikely surrogate.
Scientists have just discovered the world’s very first hybrid shark off the eastern coast of Australia– and it wasn’t created with science!
On New Year’s Eve, Montreal residents were graced with a surprise visitor – a lost harp seal. There he was, relaxing on a chunk of ice just west of the city in Lac-St-Louis.
It was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for that deer that crashed into the house. That was the case for the Keller family of Bountiful, Utah this past Christmas Eve as a deer fell through a basement window and into their bedroom.
Everyone has heard of Goldilocks trespassing into the bears’ home in the jungle but what seems like a complete role reversal, a 500 pound bear was found hibernating in a house basement in Hopatcong in Sussex County with the homeowner completely unaware of its presence!
What are the chances of a wild animal coming to your home and cuddling up on a couch? Most people will say none but for one Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, resident, Sunday night brought into her house an uninvited visitor in the form of a seal pup who found his way to the couch for a comfortable nap.
Photographer Felix Tchvertkin was caught off guard while visiting the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo when a lemur in the walk in enclosure grabbed his camera.
There is never a dull moment in the life of a police officer. Just ask the deputy from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in Florida who found a panther in a resident’s garage freezer. Police responding to a landlord-tenant dispute last month in Loxahatchee discovered one dead panther stuffed on the wall and one staring at them from the freezer.
‘Bear cleanup in the produce aisle. Bear cleanup in the produce aisle’. Not exactly what you hear over the speakers at a grocery store very often. Unless you shop in Ketchikan, Alaska, that is. Earlier this week a black bear cub strolled through the automatic doors at Tatsuda’s IGA and proceeded to do some produce shopping.
Snappy the crocodile is surely going to be snapped a lot in the coming days, because rather than the usual green color sported by crocodiles, this reptile is bright orange!
For a poor seal pup in Russia, it is not good to be born unique. A photographer spotted a seal in Tyuleniy Island, Russia which had ginger colored fur and blue eyes. Distinctly different from its black siblings, the pup was left alone and ignored by all other seals. The photographer Anatoly Strakhov said, “He [...]
