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Pushed towards extinction
18 January 2026, 02:50 AM
Police believe thieves steal Venezuela zoo animals to eat them
Venezuela authorities investigate the theft of animals from a zoo in western state of Zulia that were likely snatched to be eaten, a further sign of hunger in a country struggling with chronic food shortages.
19 August 2017, 06:53 AM
Mama monkey of Dhaka
In pictures taken from her Gulshan home, NB Mansoor tells the story of how she made friends with a mama monkey.
17 August 2017, 08:41 AM
Missing 115-year-old tortoise returns to New Mexico owner
A 115-year-old desert tortoise that disappeared from its garden at a New Mexico senior living community returns.
30 July 2017, 05:33 AM
First-ever photos show wild lion nursing leopard cub in Tanzania
While African lions have a habit of killing leopards, it is quite surprising to see a five-year-old lioness nursing a weeks-old leopard cub recently in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
15 July 2017, 12:06 PM
World's 'oldest' hippo dies at Philippine zoo
Bertha, believed to be the world's oldest hippopotamus, dies aged 65, the Manila zoo says, having beaten the typical lifespan for the mostly herbivorous mammals by decades.
10 July 2017, 10:24 AM
Asian water monitor released after rescue in Kushtia
An Asian water monitor lizard is rescued and later released in Kushtia.
24 June 2017, 08:22 AM
Call for more electric fences to stop elephants destroying Gabon crops
For several months, electric fences have been put up in Gabon, a country in Central Africa, as part of a new programme to stop the country's 40,000 forest elephants from destroying crops.
17 June 2017, 07:32 AM
Giant flying turkey once roamed Australia
A giant, flying turkey as tall as a kangaroo once roamed Australia, palaeontologists said Wednesday, after an analysis of fossils and bones from around the country revealed five extinct bird species.
15 June 2017, 14:06 PM
Japan zoo celebrates birth of panda cub
A Japanese zoo celebrates the first birth of a baby panda in five years, with the tiny cub small enough to fit in the palm of a human hand.
12 June 2017, 11:38 AM
Endangered vaquita marina porpoise could be extinct by 2018
The vaquita marina, a tiny porpoise native to Mexico, could be extinct by next year if urgent action including a ban on gillnets is not taken, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature warns.
12 June 2017, 08:58 AM
Humans pose ever-bigger extinction risk to animals: review
Facing the highest level of threat are more than 360 species of large mammals in Africa, Asia and South America -- the most biodiverse regions of the world, said a review published in the journal Nature Insight.
5 June 2017, 07:49 AM
Elephant blocks road playing football
Hilarious footage from Assam, India, captures the moment a young elephant decides to block a public road for nearly THIRTY minutes to practice football.
25 May 2017, 07:00 AM
Dramatic video shows sea lion dragging girl underwater
A college student shares a startling video of a sea lion snatching a girl off a dock and yanking her into the water on Canada’s West Coast.
22 May 2017, 06:02 AM
Thill bamboo is supremely delicious, you can tell by checking out this panda
Adorable panda in Taipei Zoo can't get enough thill bamboo.
Taiwan's first native-born panda cub Yuan Zai has been enjoying a new item on its menu.
17 May 2017, 06:51 AM
Watch these crabs make yearly journey from forest to sea in Cuba
Cuba's Bay of Pigs has been invaded again, this time not by US-backed anti-Castro forces, but by millions of red, yellow and black landcrabs.
3 May 2017, 06:06 AM
Nepal's rhinos on road to recovery with cross-country move
All hell breaks loose as the one-horned rhino steps out of the crate, the powerful male charging elephant-mounted mahouts relocating him to a new home in Nepal's far west in the hope of shoring up the vulnerable species.
10 April 2017, 04:54 AM
'selfie monkey' threatened for its meat
The crested black macaque rises to fame when one of the monkeys snapped grinning selfies and becomes embroiled in a US court battle -- but the tussle over copyright is the least of the rare animal's worries.
3 April 2017, 06:54 AM
Thousands of saker falcons die from electrocution in Mongolia
Due to inefficient solutions in power lines, over 4000 saker falcons worth Mongolian Tugrik 64 billion ($26 million) die annually in Mongolia. This number increases by two times in some years.
19 March 2017, 05:11 AM
1st fluorescent frog found in Argentina
The first naturally fluorescent frog is discovered recently in Argentina -- almost by chance, a member of the team of researchers tells AFP.
17 March 2017, 06:36 AM
[WATCH] A century of tragic extinctions
Animals on the Earth are now in grave danger as we are entering an era where the number of species becoming extinct is increasing rapidly.
1 March 2017, 13:13 PM