Category: Rescue Animals

A mother leopard looked contented as she gave her cub a hug in a series of heartwarming pictures of the cats in the wild. A mother leopard appeared to beam from ear to ear as she and her cub snuggled together after waking up from a nap in Kenya Wildlife photographer Leighton Lum captured the…

This is the heartwarming moment a mother elephant was reunited with her calf after it was trapped in a well. The baby elephant had fallen down a muddy hole in Kerala, India, during the night while the herd was passing a village. This baby elephant fell down a well in India during the night while…

A group of young fishermen have captured an incredible selfie with a whale after it swam up and seemed to ask them for help removing plastic bags caught in its mouth.   Michael Riggio, 17, (left) took selfies with the whale while his friend Ivan Iskenderian helped the creature Laughing while attempting to help the whale…

A mother raccoon pulled off a daring rescue after her son climbed up a brick wall. The baby animal appeared to be stuck up a wall in the clip, which prompted intervention from his mother. The baby animal appeared to be stuck up the side of a wall in the clip, which prompted quick intervention…

Two lobstermen in Maine earned a name for themselves as harbor heroes after a video was posted to social media showing the pair rescuing a baby seal tangled in a rope of plastic fishing nets. The men hauled the pup aboard the boat shortly after, where they began cutting apart the nets with a knife.…

Life had just been turned upside down for this little calf. Wandering near a river in Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park, 1-year-old Mukkoka was all alone, and his mother or other elephants were nowhere in sight. He was tired, lonely and scared. Thankfully, rescuers from David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT), which saves and rehabilitates orphaned…

Wandering near a Florida suburb, an expectant mother deer gazed around a front yard, unsure of what to do. The deer had gotten stuck in a trash can lid and was now having a lot of trouble getting around. When animal advocates from Wild Florida Rescue saw the deer, they knew they had to help…

This is the tear-jerking moment a bear saw snow for the first time after spending 20 years of his life in a cage. But three weeks ago Buri was rescued from captivity by a team in Ukraine. Until recently there was very little regulation in Ukraine surrounding keeping animals in captivity. Buri was taken as…

An emaciated orphaned elephant calf was rescued from the wild in Kenya after tourists spotted him struggling to survive after a jackal attack- and is now thriving in a wildlife orphanage. The baby elephant, who was three or four months old at the time, was found wandering and struggling to survive outside Tsavo East National Park…

An elephant was saved from nearly dying of dehydration after it got stuck in a muddy well in Isiolo, Kenya overnight. It took a team four hours to free the terrified mammal who was then given 100 litres of water. An elephant was saved from nearly dying of dehydration after it got stuck in a muddy…