Annual turkey pardon draws laughter, gobbles at White House ahead of Thanksgiving

November 22, 2022

Chocolate and Chip will live to gobble another day. They are the turkeys U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned at the White House this week…

Rangers rescue baby elephant stuck in waterhole in South Africa’s Addo Park

November 21, 2022

A plucky little elephant recently found itself “proper stuck” in a waterhole in Addo Elephant National Park, but was luckily pulled to safety by…

Would you eat meat grown in a lab using cultured animal cells?

November 16, 2022

Imagine a way to produce meat without slaughtering animals. Instead of raising livestock on farms, Uma Valeti, a cardiologist, and co-founder of Upside Foods, dreamt…

Puppy found abandoned in a crate on roadside finds new life as a police sniffer dog

November 15, 2022

It’s a true rags to riches story of the furry kind. A puppy dumped on the roadside in a cage has been trained as…

“Best friends” companion rats that survived fire now looking for forever home — together

November 13, 2022

Back in August, more than a dozen rats were found in two abandoned rabbit hutches that had ben set on fire and left in…

“Late bloomer” bison calf born in Iowa’s Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge

November 7, 2022

It’s not often bison baby announcements are made in the fall at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, but the park in Iowa unexpectently has…

India PM Modi heralds “great news” as cheetahs released in India exploring bigger habitat

November 6, 2022

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared an exciting update that two of the eight cheetahs brought to India from Namibia for a new life in…

Mother monkeys separated from their newborns get comfort from plush toys: new study

November 6, 2022

Mother monkeys permanently separated from their newborns sometimes find comfort in plush toys: this recent finding from Harvard experiments has set off intense controversy among scientists…

University cats? New study show they may be more useful on campus than dog visitations

October 31, 2022

Post secondary education is always stressful for students and in recent years, campuses have been organizing visits with dogs to help alleviate some of…

HOWL-oween and other animal jokes to make you hoot this Halloween

October 30, 2022

What’s better than a dad joke? How about animal-style Halloween humdingers? May we present you with the internet’s best round of of some howl-ers…