Author: Hei

Mammoth hunters probe permafrost for ‘ethical ivory’ With the sale of elephant tusks under close scrutiny, “ethical ivory” from the extinct woolly mammoth is now feeding an insatiable market in China. This rush on mammoth ivory is luring a fresh breed of miner – the tusker – into the Russian wilderness and creating millionaires in…

If you’ve ever been comforted by your dog, then you do not doubt that dogs are empathetic beings that seem to know when they are needed most. Since their first domestication, they have been beside humans in times of sadness, sickness, and pain. They form deep bonds with people and will stick by when the…

Random acts of kindness make a huge difference in the world and this young boy is delivering them to the stray dogs of Grozny, Chechnya. Ibrahim wants to make the world a happier place, so he takes it upon himself to make a difference, even when he thinks no one is watching. One day when…

It is not every day that you get a chance to see a majestic black panther let alone get to see one playing with a big dog. Luna the black panther was rescued by a woman named Victoria after her mother abandoned her when she was only a week old. The mother lived at a…

Good God, people… It should go without saying, but that’s why you don’t get close to bison. For like the 10,000th time, they’re not cows and you’re not at a petting zoo… you’re at Yellowstone National Park, home to arguably the United States’ most lethal collection of animals. Bison, wolves, elk, bears, and plenty more,…

Bear drills! Armenian vets fly in British DENTIST to remove brown bear’s teeth after rescuing it from captivity and finding beast in agonising pain Unless you’re a 30-stone bear with a sore head, that is – and then the dentist comes to you… very carefully. In this case the patient was General, a brown bear…

Russian scientists are poring over the uniquely well-preserved bones of a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth after completing the operation to pull them from the bottom of a Siberian lake. Experts spent five days scouring the silt of Lake Pechenelava-To in the remote Yamal peninsula for the remains, which include tendons, skin and even excrement, after they…

When her legs were broken, a mother stray dog was heroically striving to protect her babies, demonstrating extraordinary determination to keep them safe. Ahmed Abdelhamid stumbled across a defenseless mother dog in the vicinity of Mustafa Kamel St. in Egypt, who was plainly in a troubled situation. The mother dog had a variety of severe…

Mau was about two years old when he was discovered in a cemetery by a good samaritan. He was bone-thin, exhausted, dehydrated, and his breathing was so weak that he lay helpless on the side of the road. Many people passed by, but everyone was silent and assumed the boy had died. Looking at Mau,…

A girl with epilepsy is cared for by Jerry, a dog that no one wanted. Keanna, a 3-year-old with uncontrolled epilepsy, must learn to detect the signals of an imminent seizure, so he saves her life every day. Jerry alerts the rest of the family 30 minutes before Keanna is due to have a seizure.…