Category: Animals

Animal lovers from around the world have been sharing the adorable snaps of the unlikely furry friends who will melt your һeагt. From an ostrich napping with a baby elephant in Kenya to a raccoon and a Chihuahua hugging, Bored Panda have collated the cutest pictures of the pairings in an online gallery. In one snap, taken…

The incredible moment a pod of killer orcas helped free a trapped humpback has been caught on video. The remarkable nature encounter was captured off the Western Australian south coast near Bremer Bay on January 10. It was a ‘rescue’ that stunned onlookers because orcas often feast on humpbacks in the ocean – injured or…

Remarkable pictures have captured an extremely rare battle between a caiman and an anaconda in Brazil. The snake wrapped itself around the caiman in what turned out to be a dramatic 40-minute fight for survival on the banks of the Cuiabá River. Shocking photos captured the moment a vicious caiman sunk its teeth into an anaconda…

A giant anaconda was spotted crushing a caiman to death, coiling itself around the predator in a ‘fatal hug’. The huge snake tightly wraps itself around the caiman as the beast seems to helplessly groan in pain. The reptiles are intertwined, half submerged in the water, as the snake strangles its victim The anaconda coils…

THIS lion is flipped several metres into the air by a charging buffalo trying to save the life of another herd member. Two young lions had been silently stalking the buffalo for about 45 minutes when one finally made its move – but the predator was so focused on bringing down his prey that he…

In a real-life version of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, this calf had been splashing around in the shallow end of a watering hole in the African bush, when the crocodile launched out of the water and clamped down on his trunk. Ready to strike: A baby elephant drinks at a watering hole in the…

An adorable bear cub was found ɩoѕt in the wilderness without his mother by a Turkish гeѕсᴜe centre in Hakkari, a nearby province on the Turkish border with Iraq. The baby bear, called ‘Hakvan’, is pictured guzzling from a milk bottle after his гeѕсᴜe. Photos show him being nursed back to health after his solo…

A sequence of mesmerising photographs show the buffalo scarpering as one of the lionesses flips through the air trying to sink its teeth into the beast. Another shows her clinging on to the buffalo’s front legs with her claws digging in but the Cape Buffalo, which can weigh between 500 to 1,000kg, manages to flee…

A couple exploring Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula found themselves in just the right place, at just the right time. The pair саme across a little two-toed sloth who had managed to survive the high tide and was ѕtᴜсk on the beach, clinging to a rock and crying oᴜt in confusion. Fortunately, he was saved before…

The footage shows the heart-stopping moment the two jackals arrive at the scene and begin menacingly circling the unsuspecting baby wildebeest as it takes a nap. The mother desperately tries to fend off the predators from getting close to her baby and in the process runs into her youngster sending it flying The jackals plan…