Category: Rescue Animals

Johannesburg Zoo, where Lammie has lived for the entire 39 years of her life, believes it can help Lammie by getting another captive elephant to be her friend. Yet animal welfare advocates believe this could do more harm than good — for both Lammie and the newcomer. While Lammie has only known life at Johannesburg…

Nalakite was everything to her three calves. Not only had the elephant matriarch given birth to them, but she’d raised them and guided them through life. So when Nalakite became terminally ill, her children were understandably distressed. The rangers, who work for Elephant Aware Masai Mara, an organization that monitors and protects elephants in the…

rescue stories of creatures that get stuck in walls, fences, fences, and nets built by Humans and become unable to move . Every once in a while, I see or hear about animals that get stuck in fences, fences, ditches, etc. made by human beings and are a nuisance… Today I’d like to introduce you…

Just like an amusement park… You wouldn’t believe something like this unless you saw it. White-tailed deer are one of the most known and beloved creatures to roam North America. Hunters and non-hunters can all agree they are a beautiful and majestic animal. White-tailed deer are large animals, with bucks weighing up to 300 pounds…

A baby red squirrel which was found close to death has been nursed back to health by rescuers who even fashioned a pintsize hammock for the animal. The ‘almost-lifeless’ animal was discovered in a woodland ‘shivering, soaked and sodden’ after it was thought to had been blown out of a tree during high winds last…

Fred Leak, a dentist from British Columbia, proved that not all dentists are bad when he saved a bald eagle who had been shot and left for dead by a truck driver.  It all started when residents of Tofino, British Columbia heard a loud gunshot one afternoon and witnesses noticed a truck driving away shortly…

A male Sumatran orangutan has defied the “absent father” role of his wild counterpart by stepping up to care for his 2-year-old daughter after her mother died unexpectedly in a zoo in Colorado. “In the wild, orangutan males are not involved with their offspring,” Denver Zoo posted on Facebook nearly a month after Nias passed away. “To…

I am sure many of us have actually encountered with a deer before. They can be seen around the nation, especially when driving in the evening on wooded area roads. Yet, in spite of their abundance these adorable animals are extremely shy. Therefore it is pretty uncommon to find upon a lovely fawn, without running…

When a wild fox cub decided to explore a construction site in his neighborhood in 2012, he didn’t realize that he was putting himself in danger. Luckily, a group of kind construction workers discovered the mud-covered animal. They could’ve left him to die. They could’ve made fun of him for looking more like a rabbit…

It’s not uncommon these days for our fellow humans to say they prefer animals to people. Some of us may even feel compelled to personally come to the aid of struggling animals that we may find in our midst. The woman explained to staff at Lower Moss Wood Nature Reserve & Wildlife Hospital that she…