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How to treat a wound? For humans, the first instinct would be to disinfect it and then cover it with a bandage. But chimpanzees have invented a more creative method: catching insects and applying them directly to the open wound.

When SA photographer Jackie spotted a hippo laying belly up, she thought something was wrong. Little did she know, he was sunbathing!

A same-sex New York penguin couple have just become foster parents to a little chick and are reportedly doing a stellar job!

Five lions and one tiger, all born in Ukraine, were rescued from captivity and released at a sanctuary in South Africa.

Ain’t no business like monkey business in SA! Rare pics show a troop of vervet monkeys swim across a crocodile-infested river in KZN.

Hong Kong will cull hundreds of hamsters after some tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said Tuesday, as the city pushes to maintain its strict “zero-Covid” strategy.

The two thieves who brutally robbed 27-year-old Marieke Bayens at gunpoint on a California street were not after her purse – or her. They wanted the little dog at the end of her leash: Merlyn, a French bulldog.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved its first treatment to control pain associated with osteoarthritis in cats, which is also the first monoclonal antibody drug approved for any animal species.

Russian animal rescuers said Wednesday they were fighting for the life of an Amur tiger cub who had been found dying from exhaustion and frostbite in the country’s far east.

Goldfish may have short memories but, according to an Israeli university study, they might be able to drive.

The intenet is going gaga for an adorable cat bearing a ‘striking resemblance’ to the late Freddie Mercury. Take a look…

In the case of a divorce, who keeps the family cat or dog? Spain has ruled that, as with children, parents should in some cases share custody.

It took a group of volunteers five days to rescue a horse stranded on a Vaal River island in the Northern Cape.

People cannot get enough of a new film that follows the trials and tribulations of an adorable fluffy chick living in the Antarctic.

Bengal tiger Charly and Bornean orangutan Sandai, both members of endangered species, have received coronavirus vaccines at a Chilean zoo in a Latin American first.

An endangered leopard captured in Iraq’s mountainous north had its hind leg amputated on Friday following a trap-inflicted wound, an AFP photographer said.

Watch a compilation of the best wildlife sightings that took place in and around the Kruger throughout 2021.

A US animal shelter in has been ‘gifted’ with 800 parakeets after the son of an animal hoarder dropped them off in two batches.

A stray dog has won the hearts of many after she found a newborn baby and took care of her like one of her own little puppies.

Danish health authorities said Thursday they had discovered an illegal mink farm, a practice banned after the country controversially culled farmed minks nationwide last year over fears of a new coronavirus strain.

In Papua New Guinea’s isolated Star Mountains, Indigenous people say the tree kangaroo is king and the bird of paradise is queen. But both have a price on their heads.

A two-tonne rubber whale can take on a life of its own in the frigid shallows of a windswept New Zealand beach, particularly when a bedraggled group of would-be rescuers is trying to wrestle it into a harness

In the pale winter darkness of northern Norway, a huge flock of seagulls circles above an Arctic fjord, signifying the presence of a group of unusual predators in the water below.

Zodwa Wabantu shared a clip in which she holds two live chickens…and left many at a loss for words. The good sis is fearless!