True Heroes
In a war-torn region, three stories of people fostering life in the midst of death.
Ridiculously Cute
Light relief – a break from our usual fare! . . . Baby rhino and baby goat do their thing. (More below)
Elephant Destroys House, Rescues Baby
On Monday night in India, an angry elephant walked into the village of Olgara from the forest and smashed a house to pieces. This kind of…
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
Meet the Thai Elephant Orchestra. They’re all retired elephants who spent their lives serving the timber industry of Thailand until logging was brought to an end…
Mother Carries Shot Pit Bull to Safety
It started out as the same hike that Andi Davis does every day to the top of one of the mountains near where she lives in…
Teddy Bear’s Halloween Special
The chatty porcupine is back with his latest tell-all on pumpkins. (From Zooniversity.)
Ridiculously Cute Sloth Photos
These latest great photos were taken by graduate student Rebecca Cliffe, who used them to raise funds to help reintroduce orphan sloths into the wild in…
‘The End of Antibiotics – Period.’
For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about “The end of antibiotics? (question mark)” Well, now I would…
The Dogs Who Wouldn’t Be Separated
Why would Ben, a 4-year-old mutt who’d found the perfect forever home, run away and go all the way back to the shelter? The answer: He…
The Great Lion Hug
Don’t try this at home – or on your next trip to Africa. But zoologist Kevin Richardson has a new video promoting his work with lions.
Rescuing Foggy the Humpback Whale
Foggy and Grommet are well known to whale-watching boats off the coast of Nova Scotia. The two humpback whales are rarely seen apart from each other.…
How Elephants Say Goodbye
Most of us have seen photos of videos of elephant herds gathering around one of their own who’s passed away and for whom they’re grieving. This…
The Great Dachshund Dash
Ninety-six dachshunds made a run for it, last weekend, in Washington D.C.’s Federal Triangle, raising $2,000 for the Washington Humane Society. It was the 2nd Annual…
Chickens Flying High – Literally!
They’ve spent their whole lives in tiny cages, unable even to spread their wings. But now thousands of them are flying high – to sanctuaries all…
Heroic Beavers Have New Life
Five months ago, when a diesel pipe broke near a wildlife preserve in Utah, a family of beavers saved the day by building a dam. By…
How to Get Your Green Card?
This little sweetheart stowed away inside a freight container for the 6,400-mile, three-week voyage from the Philippines to Los Angeles. [readon] As you can imagine, when…
Porcupines – the Nice and the Naughty
The ridiculously cute and chatty porcupine Kemosabe in his tree fort at the Animal Wonders sanctuary in Montana: [readon] Animal Wonders cares for animals who have…
Julia Rescues a Bee
Julia rescued Lemon, a carpenter bee, five years ago, when she was eight years old. Lemon couldn’t fly, but, as Julia writes: He lived for 3…