Category: Rescue Animals

When baby screech owls come through the doors of Austin Wildlife Rescue, animal advocates always attempt to re-nest the babies with their original families. If they can’t be re-nested, these owlets don’t have to worry — they’ll soon be safe with new loved ones. “We always combine babies [who are] the same age,” Kathryn Mattison,…

They were reunited this week in their new home in Longleat Safari Park and welcomed each other with open arms – followed by  shoulder squeezes, handshakes and the odd bit of brotherly rough and tumble. Embrace: Gorillas Kesho and Alf embrace give each other a hug after being reunited at Longleat Safari Park He proved…

These heroes have dedicated their lives to rescuing circus animals. They work for the animal rights group Animal Defenders International and their intention is to give poorly cared for animals a new life. While on a rescue mission at a circus in Peru, they managed to save 3 lions. Unfortunately, they had to leave behind…

Waddling as fast as their little legs can carry them, these excited penguins have good reason to be happy. Their delighted fɩіɡһt towards the sealine on Mount Maunganui beach in Tauranga, New Zealand, follows almost two months in humane captivity. When the hatches to their yellow and blue transport cases were opened by a mixture…

Karaya, a western lowland gorilla, has given birth to her first child at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC. This is the first time in nine years that a gorilla has given birth at the zoo. A video of that special moment was released on the official website. I picked up my newborn baby…

Raccoon nurse working at a Russian veterinary hospital Doctors must be extremely busy and work hard, as they must provide appropriate treatment to patients one after another every day. What’s more, the other person is an animal. I think they probably want one or two assistants, or one or two animals. But it seems Yasha…

The cheetah is a proud predator of the Carnivora order, the cat family, and has a supple body, beautiful fur, and one of the fastest legs in the animal world. Cheetahs have the image of being “too cool and hard to get close to,” but they are actually very sensitive and anxious. Cheetahs are naturally…

When cow herders in the remote Ndoto Mountains of northern Kenya headed home after grazing their herds for the day, they noticed an unfamiliar charge among the ranks — a newborn baby elephant, only a few hours old and still attached to his umbilical cord. He finally contacted the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, which quickly…

An East Tennessee-based wildlife photographer сарtᴜгed images of something you don’t see every day: a mama black bear with five — count ’em — five cubs. One of the photos shows the cubs horsing around and climbing a tree. Another shows them with their noses in the grass, not far away from their mother. Cellphone videos taken by…

A trip to the hardware store turned into a lesson on the mігасɩe of life for some Alaska shoppers this week after a moose gave birth in the parking lot. Customers who planned to shop at Lowe’s or the nearby tагɡet at the Tikahtnu Commons in Anchorage instead sat and watched for hours as the…