4+ hour, 44+ min ago   (449+ words) Although best known for the powerful smell they use as a defence mechanism, skunks are still seen as potential pets for some people. And despite being native to Canada, the United States or Central and South America, one skunk was…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago   (260+ words) Staff are facing redundancies at two animal parks because of "rising operating costs". Howletts Wild Animal Park, near Canterbury, and Port Lympne Reserve, in Folkestone, both in Kent, employ more than 550 staff, plus another 100 seasonal workers. The parks, run by…...

8+ hour, 48+ min ago   (147+ words) Jersey Zoo has named one of its latest arrivals after letting the public decide. Waffle was named after a potato treat - in keeping with her half-siblings Hashbrown and Dauphinoise. The zoo announced the new arrivals in June, with keepers naming…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago   (311+ words) A "very soggy moggy" was rescued after falling in a canal on a nighttime misadventure in Leeds. Ronnie the cat was found stranded in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on Sunday morning near his home in Leeds and was rescued…...

5+ hour, 9+ min ago   (339+ words) Warmer weather is leading to an increase in "vulnerable and fragile" seahorses being disturbed, conservationists have said. The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) said it was stepping up efforts to inform people of the law after an increase in reported incidents,…...

7+ hour, 24+ min ago   (997+ words) Humans have become one of the world's greatest evolutionary forces. To survive our cities, animals from urban foxes to glass-climbing lizards are responding with extreme adaptation. Cities have become the planet's newest ecosystem, and many of the animals residing in…...

8+ hour, 36+ min ago   (623+ words) Dog owners are being warned about venomous adders after a terrier was bitten on the face, leaving her owners fearing she would not make it through the night. Jet was on holiday with owners Jonathan and Anita Matthews in Ravenscar,…...

9+ hour, 40+ min ago   (291+ words) A coat owned by French actress, model and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is to be auctioned to raise money for a dog rescue charity. Bardot, who died in December, aged 91, rose to fame during her teen modelling career, later…...

12+ hour, 1+ min ago   (326+ words) A parrot that has lost almost all his feathers and is unable to fly is on the road to recovery in an animal sanctuary. Steve - as he has been named by carers at Hopefield Animal Sanctuary in Brentwood, Essex - joined…...

15+ hour, 45+ min ago   (626+ words) Marmots - chubby, ground-dwelling squirrels - are the latest stars on the adult platform OnlyFans. That's thanks to the efforts of Colorado-based biologist Dr Daniel Blumstein, the head of a long-running field study on marmots, who was worried about its financial future…...