Polar bear triplets! Go ahead, say ahhhhh

February 26, 2014

Thomas Kokta was among a handful of people this winter to witness the motherlode of photogenic polar bears. The German-born photographer and wilderness tour…

Polar bear in Argentina misses snow, yearns for Canada

February 25, 2014

Poor Arturo the polar bear living in a zoo in Argentina is still stuck in South America. The Assiniboine Park Conservancy has tried to…

Totes MaGoats! Actual goats balancing on a springy sheet of metal

February 19, 2014

This popped up on YouTube this week under the title: “Chèvres en équilibre – goats balancing on a flexible steel ribbon.” And, it is…

Horse-drawn and dog-drawn ski racing. An Olympic sport?

February 18, 2014

How is it that we at Critter Files have never heard of skijoring before? It’s a Norwegian word which roughly translates into driving by…

Farting, burping cows cause fire at German dairy farm (and giggles everywhere)

January 29, 2014

We badly need to see the police report on this one – or meet the officer who took it without bursting into laughter. But…

Endangered eagle killed by branch in conservation cage

January 28, 2014

The Phillippine Eagle is the country’s national bird and there are fewer than 250 of them left. Now there’s one less. One of the…

Elephant seal vs hagfish: trust us, this is unusual

January 24, 2014

The elephant seal is not the most attractive creature out there. It’s large proboscis resembles an elephant’s trunk, hence its name. Perhaps even more…

The way to a chimps’ heart is through their stomachs

January 21, 2014

Why do we as critters of the human kind like companionship with other human critters? Human critters have had biological success because we have…

Wolverines making a home in an unusual place: B.C. Great Bear Rainforest

January 15, 2014

Most of the 3,000 to 4,000 wolverines in British Columbia are known to keep to themselves in the backcountry of the Interior of the…

Stowaway scorpion hitches ride to Manitoba

January 14, 2014

A Manitoba woman now has an unusual kind of visitor from South Africa holed up in her home. Theresa Arnott told CBC she spotted a little…