Pets and Animals

An Australian zoo celebrated their pygmy hippo's fifth birthday with cake and colorful balls.

The 12-year-old said he had recently watched a video on how to behave if you run into a bear.

Hoping to gain superpowers like Spider-Man, three young brothers poked a black widow with a stick until it bit them.

A Kentucky school surprised one of their students by including a picture of her service dog next to her picture in their yearbook.

These adorable fur babies were gifted hundreds of tennis balls and they went nuts.

Little Kitoko was bitten on the head, likely by accident when another gorilla tried to bite his mother, animal experts say.

The Tampa Police department welcomed K9 Sly to the team this week.

Newly released footage shows the last-known view of the extinct Tasmanian tiger.

A two-faced kitten named Biscuits and Gravy passed away after living for nearly four days.

A Maryland family's dog jumped out of their second story window seemingly unharmed.

A chimpanzee recognized a former zoo volunteer decades later and the heartwarming reunion was captured on video.

A Citrus County couple were surprised by a black bear in their Citrus Springs backyard Friday evening.

An adorable panda cub kept himself cool by splashing around in a paddling pool at Berlin Zoo recently.

Wildlife officials say a bald eagle died last year in Maine after being stabbed through the heart by a loon. The evidence showed no gun residue but indicated that the big bird had been stabbed through the heart by the beak of a loon.

An unlikely friendship has blossomed during this isolation between a North Texas woman and a goose.

As humans deal with the devastation of the novel coronavirus, an outbreak among wildlife has occurred in the U.S. which threatens the wild and domestic rabbit population along with their environments. 

There's a llama delivering groceries to the elderly in the Welsh countryside and it's amazing.

While most art galleries and museums are still closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, one Kansas City art museum made an exception for some special guests: penguins from the Kansas City Zoo. 

The San Diego Zoo has announced the first successful birth of an endangered pygmy hippopotamus at the zoo in more than three decades.