Animal News
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Dozens of orcas and beluga whales captured for sale to oceanariums have brought Russia's murky trade into the spotlight, but efforts to free them are blocked by government infighting.
|
|
By AFP
Quito -
Conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have found a giant tortoise from a species thought to have become extinct more than a century ago.
|
|
By AFP
New Delhi -
India's first semi-high speed train broke down Saturday after colliding with a cow on the tracks, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new passenger service.
|
|
By AFP
Fpo -
Two men carrying at least 24 severed rhino horns were arrested in Hong Kong airport by customs officers who said it was their largest ever seizure of rhino contraband smuggled by air passengers.
|
|
By AFP
Lusaka -
Zambia plans to slaughter 2,000 hippopotamuses to control overpopulation, officials said Wednesday, as conservationists lashed the scheme as a ploy to make money from trophy hunters.
|
|
By AFP
Madrid -
Spanish police said Tuesday they had seized more than 200 stuffed endangered animals, including giraffes, rhinos, lions and tigers, from an illegal taxidermy workshop that was selling them online.
|
|
By AFP
London -
London Zoo on Monday denied it was responsible for the death of an endangered Sumatran tiger mauled by a potential mate brought in as part of a breeding programme.
|
|
By AFP
Malm -
With a grin spreading across his face, a man bends down to take a photo of a miniature rubbish bin and street sign at the foot of a building in the southern Swedish town of Malmo.Lost items from a dollhouse?
|
|
By AFP
Rani -
On the edge of the Indian desert, Lakshman Raika boils tea with fresh milk from one of his camels, gently stirring the brew his tribal herdsman have consumed for generations.
|
|
By AFP
Sydney -
A lone duck named Trevor that lived on the tiny Pacific island nation of Niue has died, officials say, sparking an outpouring of grief from as far away as New Zealand.
|
|
By AFP
Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord.Their favourite meal, herring, abounds, but climate change means both predator and prey must increasingly migrate further north.
|
|
By AFP
Strechov Nad Sazavou -
Only half of the 100 mushers who braved one of Europe's toughest sled dog races, the Czech Long Trail, finished the competition which ended on Saturday.
|
|
By AFP
Madrid -
Spanish police said Monday they had arrested 182 people who took part in a "national" cockfighting competition, an ancient sport that continues in some regions despite being banned.
|
|
By AFP
Warsaw -
During World War II, Wojciech Narebski and his fellow Polish servicemen had to lift crate after heavy metal crate of artillery. Fortunately for them, one of the soldiers had superhuman strength: Corporal Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear.
|
|
By AFP
Sydney -
A woman and a child were bitten by a shark in the popular Whitsunday Islands near Australia's Great Barrier Reef on Thursday in the latest of a string of such attacks, reports and officials said.
|
|
By AFP
Buenos Aires -
The well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric deer has been discovered just to the north of Buenos Aires, the La Matanza University revealed on Monday.
|
|
By AFP
Kolkata -
Wildlife authorities in eastern India have deployed drones, trained elephants and set up traps with live bait to find a leopard who escaped from a safari park, officials said Friday.
|
|
By AFP
Yakutsk -
Crouching near a wooden shed in his snowy backyard, Prokopy Nogovitsyn lifts up a grey tarpaulin and takes out a vertebra the size of a saucer: part of a mammoth skeleton.
|
|
By AFP
Hanoi -
Six men were arrested in central Vietnam for killing and eating an endangered monkey while livestreaming it on a social media site, police said Friday.
|
|
By AFP
Toulouse -
The release of additional bears into the Pyrenees mountains straddling France and Spain is needed to ensure the fledgling population's survival, the activist group charged with the bears' protection said Wednesday.
|
|
By AFP
Jakarta -
The world’s only known albino orangutan has been released back into the jungle more than a year after she was found emaciated and bloody in a remote corner of Borneo, an Indonesian NGO said Friday.
|
|
By AFP
Lelystad -
Dutch ranger Andre Donker sighs as he looks out at the rippling grey waters of the Markermeer, one of Europe's largest freshwater lakes. "Once upon a time it was teeming with fish here," he says.
|
|
By AFP
New Delhi -
A Buddhist monk has been killed by a leopard while meditating in a protected forest for the big cats, the fifth such attack in the area this month, Indian police said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
New Delhi -
India's only dedicated "cow minister" has been dumped in state elections, ending a controversial tenure that saw hundreds of the sacred animals starve to death and poisoned on his watch.
|
|
By AFP
Pariaman -
A viral video showing a gigantic python wrapping itself around an Indonesian villager has secured more than a million views, after locals wrestled with the serpent before successfully caging it.
|
|
By AFP
Mexico -
In a dimly lit corner of a bustling market in Mexico City, vendors of amulets, voodoo dolls and other mystical objects sell tiny, taxidermied hummingbirds as charms to bring luck in love.
|
|
By AFP
Quito -
Galapagos giant tortoises possess genetic variants linked to DNA repair, immune response and cancer suppression -- providing clues into their longevity, according to a study published Monday.
|
|
By AFP
Wellington -
More than 50 beached pilot whales perished in New Zealand Friday, the latest in a spate of mass strandings this week that experts have linked to rising ocean temperatures.
|
|
By AFP
Sydney -
Australia's unique platypus population is shrinking under pressure from agriculture and pollution, putting the egg-laying mammals' future in doubt, researchers said in a report published Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Geneva -
Swiss voters on Sunday approved a law that gives insurance companies broad leeway to spy on suspected welfare cheats despite concerns raised about right to privacy.
|
apis-388796 apis-388784 apis-388381 apis-388275 apis-388131 apis-388038 apis-387947 apis-387788 apis-387421 apis-386827 apis-386814 apis-386715 apis-385763 apis-385669 apis-385478 apis-385262 apis-385044 apis-385021 apis-384595 apis-384485 apis-384219 apis-383849 apis-383663 apis-383596 apis-383508 apis-383287 apis-382991 apis-382715 apis-382631 apis-382349
Animal Image
A flying squirrel in flight jeanieforever
Just a few shots of my best friends, more to come
A California Grunion in a fish tank San Diego Shooter
A baby baboon safely rests on his mothers back as she forages for food for both of them. Wikipedia
Just a few shots of my best friends, more to come
A Hydrothermal Worm captured by a powerful magnifying photograph Courtesy FEI
Make milk, not war Robin.Elaine
Just a few shots of my best friends, more to come
An artistic hand painting by Guido Daniele, depicting a dog From Guido Daniele
Bureau of Land Management
Pifas reaches the shore of Lake Michigan with the help of Dave Kehnast Screen Capture
|
|
