Critter Crimes

Captive wild alligator abandoned in Brooklyn lake dies despite efforts of Bronx Zoo to save it

April 30, 2023

An American alligator dumped in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in near freezing temperatures has died from a myriad of serious health problems, including a bathtub…

Four chimpanzees confined indoors at roadside zoo in Ohio now safe at Florida sanctuary

April 22, 2023

April, Anna, Lucy and Cash knew nothing but being trapped indoors at a roadside zoo run by a convicted fraudster in Ohio, but now…

Baby fox wearing dog harness found wandering around Toronto suburb

April 16, 2023

A fox kit fitted with a dog harness and discovered walking through a residential neighbourhood in a Toronto suburb is now in the care…

Australian man charged after kidnapping platypus and wrapping it in a paper towel

April 7, 2023

An Australian man has been charged after allegedly stealing a platypus from the wild, taking it on a train and then showing it off…

“Cocaine Cat” on mend and now on way to becoming Cincinnati Zoo “cat ambassador”

March 13, 2023

Like a sad sequel to Cocaine Bar, a drug-fuelled serval is making headlines for its wild, albeit brief, escape from police in Ohio. Amiry,…

“Finch-smuggling kingpin” sentenced to year in jail for trafficking songbirds into United States

February 12, 2023

A man considered by prosecutors one of “New York’s finch-smuggling kingpins” has been sentenced to prison for repeatedly, illegally bringing in songbirds from Guyana….

Domestic pigeon dyed pink, possibly for elaborate gender reveal party, has died

February 8, 2023

The very-ill and very-pink pigeon rescued in a New York City park last week has died, according to the non-profit group that tried to…

Domestic pigeon dyed pink and released into the wild rescued in New York City

February 2, 2023

Someone completely submerged a domestic king pigeon in pink dye and released it in New York City where it surely would have died if…

FOUND! Stolen tamarin monkeys from Dallas Zoo have been recovered alive in abandoned home

January 31, 2023

More than day after the Dallas Zoo said its two emperor tamarin monkeys had vanished under suspicious circumstances, the tiny primates have been located…

Pair of tamarin monkeys believed stolen after their Dallas Zoo enclosure “intentionally compromised”

January 30, 2023

Police are investigating the possible theft of two Emperor tamarin monkeys after a break-in at the Dallas Zoo in the latest in a string…