Category: Rescue Animals

Not only are they tasked with manipulating heavy-duty electrical currents, cables, and wires, but they often have to climb to great heights on utility poles in all kinds of inclement weather. While these struggles are common with this type of job, most of them never have to deal with the difficulties that come from working…

An elephant has been rescued following a 14-hour operation after it fell down a well in India. Video footage shows rescue staff and villagers in southern India hoisting the elephant out from the bottom of a 55ft-deep well on November 20. A team of 50 lifted it out and placed it safely on the ground…

The most recent remarkable snippet of animal behaviour comes to us from Minnesota. It shows a wolf mother carefully relocating her seven pups one by one from a den that was beginning to flood. The camera trap was put in place by the Voyageurs Wolf Project, a collaboration between the University of Minnesota and Voyageurs…

When John Barnett went out to the barn at Blowing Oaks Ranch in Batesville, Arkansas to check on their alpaca herd, he was alarmed to discover that 6-week-old Cinco had broken his leg while playing. Since animals sometimes keep running on broken limbs, the alpaca had damaged his leg so badly that it had to…

Not only are they tasked with manipulating heavy-duty electrical currents, cables, and wires, but they often have to climb to great heights on utility poles in all kinds of inclement weather. While these struggles are common with this type of job, most of them never have to deal with the difficulties that come from working…

As waves crashed along Florida’s Santa Lucea Beach earlier this week, beachgoers noticed something unusual on shore. The jagged rocks along the beach’s perimeter appeared fuller than usual, with an extra boulder seemingly wedged between one of the cracks. The Good Samaritans soon realized that they’d discovered a beached sea turtle. Sadly, the poor girl…

A few months back, a determined turtle named Bubbles was slowly ambling across a busy street in Orchard Park, New York, when disaster struck. A car hit Bubbles and drove away, leaving the turtle injured and vulnerable. Safe at the wildlife care center, Bubbles received necessary treatment and slowly recuperated. A veterinarian began the slow…

This past June, a Good Samaritan was walking near Mountcharles Pier in Donegal, Ireland, when they noticed a bright orange traffic cone poking out from the marshy water along the coast. The passerby soon realized the heartbreaking truth. The baby was an orphaned seal pup, only a few days old, and she was clinging to…

Bear naturalist Phil Timpany tells a story of one his favourite grizzlies. Bernice is 27 years old and Phil has known her since she was a cub. Phil explains the nursing sequence and relationship between mother and cub. Fishing Branch bears live in an unscathed ecosystem with little impact from humans. The bears have become…

Sadly, it’s fairly common for small animals like frogs, snakes and spiders to wind up in pool filters. But when the party guests lifted the lid, they were shocked by the sight of a huge red-shouldered hawk. As if that weren’t scary enough for the hawk, while he was in the pool, he got sucked…