Category: Rescue Animals

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. Female orangutan Nias, who lived at Colorado’s Denver Zoo for fifteen years, passed away on Dec. 17, 2020, at the age of 32.…

Most people would probably keep a comfortable distance from a large buck and if there were two in the area, they might even give them more space. That isn’t the case, however, for some farmers who found two deer stuck together by their antlers in some barbed wire. They knew they had to do something.…

Most people would probably keep a comfortable distance from a large buck and if there were two in the area, they might even give them more space. That isn’t the case, however, for some farmers who found two deer stuck together by their antlers in some barbed wire. They knew they had to do something.…

Going out of one’s way to lend a helping hand is what it means to be a good neighbor – and there could be no better way of describing Krzysztof Wlodarczyk. While out for a run with his son in the woods close to their home in Konin, Poland, Wlodarczyk encountered a wild sheep in…

This is the incredible moment a huge gray whale gives birth in front of a lucky group of whale watchers. The passengers on the boat, which is operated by Capt. Dave’s Dolphin & Whale Safari, looked on in shock and astonishment while watching Southern California whale watchers witnessed the birth of a gray whale just…

A wild horse that got stuck between rocks is alive thanks to some Good Samaritans. The wild horses that live on the grasslands of Aktau, Kazakhstan, are free to roam the veldt but this particular horse somehow managed to get trapped in a terrible place.   The poor horse was lying on his back with…

An unlikely friendship started between a baby zebra and a baby rhino at Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary A baby rhino and a baby zebra were both found orphaned in the wild, becoming the best of friends in the sanctuary which took them in. Care for Wild is the largest orphan rhino sanctuary in the…

Officials in Spain earlier this month were able to rescue a massive 4,000-pound sunfish that had been caught in a fisherman’s net, the University of Seville says.   According to Reuters, the fish was snagged in the net of a tuna fishing boat on Oct. 4 in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Ceuta…

As an amateur professional photographer and wіɩd animals specialist, it was not a surprise that when Laurie Wolf discovered an Eastern Shriek Owl nesting in her Florida yard, she started taking photos to document the scene. The brownish-gray owl had actually made a nest in a bird Ьox that was located in her yard. The…