Animal Stories

Simone Giertz, originally of Sweden and now living in L.A., built a selfie booth for her three-legged rescue dog, Scraps.

Azizi, the giraffe calf whose birth was watched on a YouTube livestream by hundreds of thousands of people in 2019, died of an “unexpected and unpreventable” condition at the East Texas Zoo and Gator Park, the zoo said.

It’s a boy — a big boy.

The gay penguins strike again, NBC News reports.

In a new docuseries, a child who uses a walker meets a dog with its own version of wheels. Inmates find solace in training canines for adoption, and pigs strut their stuff in a “body positivity” celebration.

San Francisco police say they arrested a man suspected in the abduction of a ring-tailed lemur from the city’s zoo, where officials rewarded a 5-year-old boy who helped recapture the endangered primate with a lifetime membership

A British zoo removed five African gray parrots from public view after the birds kept saying curse words. “People are swearing to try and encourage the parrots,” the park CEO said.

After losing Charlie to lymphoma earlier this month, Sallie Gregory Hammett cried for about four days straight. Then she decided to do something different with her grief: write his obituary.

A rat has for the first time won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia

A Malaysian student whose cellphone was stolen has tracked down the culprit: a monkey who took photo and video selfies with the device before abandoning it

St. Louis Zoo officials are trying to solve the mystery of how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs without being around a male python for at least two decades.

An animal welfare group says that Kaavan the elephant, who has become a cause celebre for animal activists around the world, will be allowed to leave his Pakistani zoo and transferred to better conditions

A new study shows that teenage male elephants aren’t as anti-social as once thought