BLANTYRE (Reuters) – Seventeen black rhinos have been released into Malawi’s Liwonde national park after arriving from South Africa as part of conservation efforts aimed at keeping the local population of the endangered species healthy and safe. FILE PHOTO: A 33 month old black rhino is seen at a game …
The silver-backed chevrotain — a mysterious animal that’s the size of a rabbit but looks like a silver-splashed deer — has been photographed in the wild for the first time. The chevrotain is the world’s smallest hoofed mammal, or ungulate. Scientists say they have rediscovered a type of chevrotain that …
Police dogs spend all day working with handlers. They typically live together. But when law enforcement K-9s in Texas have retired, they haven’t always gone home with their handlers. Laws in the nation’s second-largest state treated the dogs as surplus public property that, like firearms or police cars taken out …
The behavior is so consistent across species and in the wild that some scientists think it must be intentional. Polly wants a cracker. Polly gets chopped vegetables, because parrots need a diverse array of nutrients. Polly eats one bite and flings the rest onto the floor. This is a common …
Oct. 3 (UPI) — When raised in captivity, Chimpanzees live an average of 40 years, according to a new study by researchers in Japan. Most surveys of the chimpanzee lifespans have focused on wild apes, but many chimps live the majority of their lives in captivity. For the study, published Thursday in …
Erin Shibley and Chirag Rathod are parents to Miko the cat. “Miko Angelo. Miko Angelo’s his full name. Miko for short,” Rathod says. It’s dinner time, and the smell of paninis is wafting from the kitchen of their apartment in Blacksburg, Va. It smells delicious, especially to Miko, who takes …
Corgi cafes are all the rage, so what’s behind the global phenomenon transforming the fortunes of this once overlooked dog breed? Corgi cafes are especially popular in Asia, with businesses thriving in Thailand, Japan and China. Source: Why thousands are flocking to corgi cafes – BBC News
The federal government is considered likely to approve a Michigan man’s application for the animal’s skin, skull and horns to come into the United States. A Michigan trophy hunter who paid $400,000 to kill a rare black rhinoceros in Africa in 2018 is seeking a federal permit to allow him …
NEW YORK — A scientist who collected DNA from Scotland’s Loch Ness suggests the lake’s fabled monster might be a giant eel. Neil Gemmell from the University of Otago in New Zealand says the project found a surprisingly high amount of eel DNA in the water. He cautioned that it’s …
CREMONA, Italy (AP) — Silvia Colleoni’s hand holding a syringe was trembling as she injected liquid into a micro pipette to facilitate the aspiration of sperm that had been removed and later frozen from one of the last then-living male northern white rhinos on Earth. Her nervousness in the Avantea …
Environmentalists in Romania are bringing back the European bison Curt the bison is not sure he wants to return to the wild. After 20 hours in a lorry from Germany to Romania, he takes a few hesitant steps down the ramp, chews at some leaves, then heads back inside. Two hours …
