11+ hour, 22+ min ago   (319+ words) Police are looking for witnesses after a two-week-old miniature donkey was found mutilated and dead at an animal sanctuary in the Netherlands. The baby donkey named Pleun was found dead in a field at Het Ezelpaleis, a donkey sanctuary in…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (440+ words) Three beluga whales have died in just eight days at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, United States. Two of them had arrived only weeks earlier from the closed Marineland park in Canada. Rain, a 20-year-old female from Marineland, and Beethoven, a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (160+ words) A dead minke whale has washed up on the Dutch island of Vlieland, the first known stranding of the species on the island in 26 years. The whale was found on the western side of Vlieland, one of the Wadden Islands…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (394+ words) A 23-year-old python at Chester Zoo in the UK is cancer-free after vets used a treatment normally used in humans to fight a tumor that was destroying part of her jaw. Jodie Foster, a 4.5-metre-long reticulated python weighing around 50 kilograms,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (312+ words) Toñi, the oldest known Iberian orca, has not been seen since she was found with around 10 shotgun wounds in her dorsal fin last week. With fewer than 30 Iberian orcas believed to remain, her disappearance is especially worrying. The injuries on…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (276+ words) Around 1,500 pigs have died after a large fire destroyed a barn near Pansy in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Firefighters were called to the farm on Friday evening, August 7, after the pig barn caught fire. Hanover Fire Chief Paul Wiebe…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (318+ words) An adult southern right whale and a newborn calf have been found dead near Dyer Island, off South Africa’s coast. Researchers believe the adult whale may have been struck by a ship and are investigating whether she was the calf’s…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (313+ words) Three lions have died at Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo, Japan, after several animals became seriously ill during the recent heatwave. The first signs of illness appeared on 18 July, when two of the zoo’s 16 lions lost their appetite and became…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (522+ words) Fifteen elephants have died after suspected cyanide poisoning near Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. Wildlife officials are investigating how the animals came into contact with the highly toxic chemical. The elephants died between 24 June and 24 July in the Amboseli ecosystem in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (500+ words) Plans to build a commercial octopus farm in Gran Canaria, part of Spain’s Canary Islands, have been withdrawn. Spanish seafood company Nueva Pescanova wanted to produce around one million octopuses each year for human consumption. The project first came to…...