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TripAdvisor will no longer sell tickets to businesses that breed captive dolphins and whales

Ocean animals like whales and dolphins have long been used in live shows as entertainment, making popular businesses and tourist attractions out of aquatic parks like Sea World. But the ethics of keeping these animals ...

Woman inexplicably jumps zoo fence to get up close with African lion

Zoos can be a great place to see animals. Their displays rely on a careful balance between letting visitors see animals up-close and unobstructed, and keeping enough of a safe distance to protect both the ...

Brave man throws himself into the water to save a drowning bear

Bears have an incredible sense of smell, so when they smell food there isn’t a lot you can do to stop them from getting what they want. When a couple from Alligator Point, Florida, looked ...

The pet turtles from ‘Rocky’ are still alive and living with Sylvester Stallone

Unlike many movie pets, Cuff and Link don’t steal the show or do any tricks, but they still made a memorable impression on the iconic film. They’re the turtles Rocky has in his apartment, and ...

Girls make a newspaper for their cat so he has something to read on the litter box

The funny viral photos first spread in November 2017. According to The Dodo, two girls, then 10 and 12 years old, noticed how their cat Baba Ganoush would stare at the blank wall while using the ...

Neglected cat freed after having two pounds of matted fur removed

Animal Rescue League Shelter & Wildlife Center After the cat’s owner, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, was taken to a nursing home, they spotted Hidey and called Animal Rescue League Shelter and Wildlife Center, in Pittsburgh. Animal ...

Rare spotted baby zebra caught on camera – now the image is being shared around the world

The zebra foal, at Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, was captured by photographer Frank Liu who wasn’t sure if he was photographing a zebra at first. “At first glance he looked like a different species ...

Zoos around the world face ban on buying wild elephants after 46 countries backed new rules

A proposal put forward by the Convention on International Trade to restrict the sale of wild elephants into captivity was supported by 46 member countries. Iris Ho, senior policy specialist at the Humane Society International described the ...

After special needs boy goes missing in woods, police bloodhounds track him down in 28 minutes

On September 15, deputies from the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office received an emergency call that’s every parent’s worst nightmare: a three-year-old boy named Aedric Hughs, who has special needs got out of the house ...

Villagers left stunned after calf is born with human face

The calf was born in the village of Villa Ana, in Argentina, and the cow had a tough birth. But nobody could have prepared those assisting the birth for what the calf would look like. ...