Category: Rescue Animals

This is the amazing moment a bald eagle attempts to steal a fisherman’s catch before the kind trawlerman decides to share. In the video, a colleague can be heard laughing as the bird of prey pesters Mathias with a second eagle standing nearby. The man asks: ‘What does he want, your fish, man?’ The man…

When people find them alone, they often make the mistake of believing they need to be rescued, when in fact, it’s more than likely the fawn’s mother will return for him or her. Since fawns are too weak to keep up with their mothers for the first few weeks of their lives, they typically wait…

This is the adorable moment a baby elephant and its family walk through an area cleared by lumberjacks. Phantom the elephant was filmed struggling to cross a fallen tree trunk in Chowkham village, in north east India, on Monday afternoon The elephant family are regulars in the village and a local tends to them and uses…

When Monika Melichar received a call about an abandoned baby deer, she hoped the mom would return. But several hours later, the people spotted the fawn and heard the little one crying for help again. The baby deer could barely walk, but she knew she could trust the family at the nearby cottage. “She knew…

Footage from Olare Motorogi Conservancy in south-west Kenya shows a calf being darted by a veterinary team with a tranquiliser after it was injured by a poacher’s snare on his hind leg. The distressed mother tries to protect her unconscious baby after the animal was caught in a poacher’s snare Heartbreaking footage shows the mother…

This lifeless fox cub was found lying near a factory in Oldham, England. The workers tried to stir her but she wouldn’t move, so they called Paul McDonald, a local fox specialist, for help. “Upon picking her up and seeing the condition she was in, I didn’t think she was going to survive,” McDonald told…

Lion Siblings Cling Together During Rescue From War-Torn Gaza Mona and Max became minor celebrities earlier this year when a Gaza resident purchased the 2-month-old cubs from Gaza’s Rafah Zoo, which had been damaged by airstrikes and was financially struggling. Animal welfare group Four Paws quickly noticed the situation was untenable. Raising lion cubs is…

This is the heart-breaking moment a tiny baby orangutan desperately clung to his mother moments after the starving ape had been tranquilized by rescue workers. The fearful baby orangutan hugs its mother after she was tranquilized by animal rescue workers Scared to leave its mother’s side, the baby ape clings on to her unconscious carer…

It could be straight out of Disney hit The Lion King but this lion cub and meerkat cuddling up to each other is real. Meet the real-life Simba and Timon. The loveable duo have been best chums since new-born lioness Zinzi was rescued by being taken into the home of zoo and safari ranch owner…

When some local rescuers in Thailand discovered an otter living in a tiny wooden box, they were shocked. He’d been kept alone in the box for years, where he survived on things like noodles and meatballs — instead of a healthy diet of shellfish. The otter, later named Thung Ngern, was transferred to a temporary…