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The owner of the pig that you see in the image to your left calls her Zhu Janqiang (strong-willed) – a look at the video below explains why. Had Wang Xihai let nature take its course with his little piglet, her missing hind legs might have been a death...
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In what was clearly a slow day in LA, two turtle smugglers were arrested after customs officers found over 50 live turtles hidden in snack food boxes. Atsushi Yamagami and Norihide Ushirozako were placed under arrest on Friday at the LA International Airport. Both are charged with illegally importing...
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In what at first seemed like the plot of an old Mel Brooks comedy, Saudi officials have caught, then later released a vulture that was tagged with a University of Tel-Aviv GPS. Later the whole affair took a more serious turn, when Saudi officials, began accusing the Israelis, of...
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A crocodile farm owner believes that the sound of Israeli air force planes breaking the sound barrier near his farm has been causing his animals to get all worked up. The males have begun sounding their mating calls, David Golan from the Hamat Gadar crocodile farm in the Golan...
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Irish veterinarians are experiencing an undesirable side effect of the falling price of potatoes – drunk bulls. County Meath-based veterinarian Peadar O’Scanaill explained: The rumen of a bull is a large fermentation vat where the starch of the potatoes mixed with its sugars, turns into alcohol. In the first...
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In this video two crows prove that brains can mean a lot more than brawn. The birds work as a team, perform flanking maneuvers and provoke the cats into fighting each other… and when the cats are all fought out and wanting to leave, they subject them to a...
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In this video, a cat protects its human subjects from two seemingly hungry alligators. One gets the distinct impression that the cat in question thinks that it is half mountain lion or something, but whatever it thinks, its mind game with the gators appears to work....
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If you find yourself as far down the marine food-chain as a tender little cephalopod you probably have to resign yourself to the fact that your days will end when you become lunch to a bigger fish – unless you get creative. The mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) uses its...
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When Bill Warren found an unusual pelt at a garage sale, he thought it might be interesting – it turned out that it was. The pelt belonged to a thylacine, or as it is more commonly known, a Tasmanian tiger. The price on the pelt was $5, a fraction...
In what at first seemed like the plot of an old Mel Brooks comedy, Saudi officials have caught, then later released a vulture that was tagged with a University of Tel-Aviv GPS. Later the whole affair took a more serious turn, when Saudi officials, began accusing the Israelis, of...
In this video two crows prove that brains can mean a lot more than brawn. The birds work as a team, perform flanking maneuvers and provoke the cats into fighting each other… and when the cats are all fought out and wanting to leave, they subject them to a...
In this video, a cat protects its human subjects from two seemingly hungry alligators. One gets the distinct impression that the cat in question thinks that it is half mountain lion or something, but whatever it thinks, its mind game with the gators appears to work....
If you find yourself as far down the marine food-chain as a tender little cephalopod you probably have to resign yourself to the fact that your days will end when you become lunch to a bigger fish – unless you get creative. The mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) uses its...