Animals

Don’t take injured badgers home, say police

Pleased as Punch: Orphaned monkey receives 2,500 birthday cards

Golden Retriever gets stuck in a tree – and firefighters have the best reaction!

Dorset puffin colony welcomes chick for first time in 30 years

Salmon returning to the stream where they hatched are not following a map anyone drew for them: they are reading the chemical signature of their birth water on the final stretch, a scent memory formed before they ever reached the ocean

For decades a single whale has called at a frequency no other whale answers, and no one can say whether it is truly alone or simply speaking a language the rest of the ocean cannot hear

Roaring Royalty: Fascinating Secrets Behind The Real Life Of Lions In The Wild

Dogs often get sudden "zoomies" at home—A vet explains when it's a red flag

Sea eagles will be tracked to stop attacks on lambs

Dogs lie down in the middle of a busy road – when rescuers learn more, their hearts ache

Prairie dogs don’t just warn their colony that a predator is near. Their alarm calls seem to encode what kind of animal is coming, and in some experiments its colour, size, and how fast it moves — all from a rodent’s squeak

Dogs do not see the world in black and white: they see much as a red-green colourblind person does, in blues and yellows — reds and greens simply fade to murky browns and grey, but colour is very much there

These two orphaned mountain lion cubs have a new home at Zoo New York

California wolves are eating much more cattle than wild prey, study finds

The truth about cats chewing that vets and behaviorists want owners to know

Matted dog is finally shaved after rescue – and her stunning features are revealed!

Formerly endangered ospreys bounce back in record numbers in Pennsylvania

Cat on a walk solves a two-month-old mystery!

Cats sleep between 12 and 16 hours a day not because they are lazy but because their hunting strategy requires explosive short-burst energy — and a body that can sprint at nearly 50 kilometres per hour needs most of the day to prepare for a few seconds of effort

When elephants play, they rapidly copy one another’s trunk and head movements — a form of bodily mimicry resembling the contagious smiles and laughter seen in humans