animals

More than 500 people in a village in Peru’s Amazon have been bitten by rabid vampire bats in attacks that have left four children dead. Deforestation has been blamed for the attacks, in and around the village of Urakusa – as the bats have been brought into closer proximity...

Pit bulls have a pretty fearsome reputation that is not totally undeserved. They are a fighting dog, bred for the type of vicious canine-canine combat that put a blossoming NFL career on hold and earned Michael Vick a short stay behind four walls. They are not all bad, and...

When a three-meter great white washed up onto Hungry Head Beach in front of Andrew Eckersley, he could have been forgiven for keeping a safe, respectful distance. Instead, he and an anonymous wetsuit-clad surfer rushed to its aid and rescued it by hand. Eckersley explained: It was pretty scary...

A Northern Territory woman was stalked near the Honeymoon Ranges by a well-endowed two-meter kangaroo with love on his mind. Natasha Civitarese, a 23-year-old school teacher, told the NT News that she came face to face with the animal while in the middle of a 5km walk on the...

A family fishing trip went unexpectedly badly for 14-year-old Kora Wira when a 42-inch barracuda jumped into their boat and bit her on the arm. Dad promptly dispatched the fish with a filleting knife, staunched the flow of blood on his daughter’s arm with a Red Sox shirt and...

Apparently the mob of hungry alligators in this video numbers around 300. While I am not in a position to confirm or deny the accuracy of the count, it is pretty safe to say that you don’t want to be swimming anywhere in Stephen C. Foster State Park. The...

A 17-month-old tiger is loose in South Africa after it escaped from the back of a pick-up truck on the way to see a vet. The pick-up truck was reportedly heading to the town of Springs east of Johannesburg when the 140 kg cat made its break for freedom....

A couple was lucky to escape with their lives after a whale landed on their sailboat. The pair were watching a southern right whale off Cape Town, South Africa – when the encounter suddenly went dangerously wrong as breached then crashed down onto their boat, snapping the mast. Fortunately...

In theory, sure, a donkey forced to parasail above stunned onlookers sounds like a good plan, but in reality, not so much. A group of Russian entrepreneurs, in an effort to attract people to their private beach, attached the frightened animal to a parachute, then had the animal lifted...