Category: Rescue Animals

The koala joey was brought to the Werribee Open Range Zoo by a wildlife carer three weeks ago, after she fell from a tree in a Blue-gum plantation logging area. Zoos Victoria In perhaps the most adorable news ever, pictures have surfaced of a baby koala wearing a tiny little arm cast after the mini…

A sea turtle was discovered struggling to escape a hole in rocks less than a meter from the sea on a Hawaiian island. Footage shows him clambering across the rocks to approach the lapping water before kneeling down to help the turtle. Marine Scientist Tommy Cutt saved a sea turtle which was trapped between rocks on…

This whale was literally jumping for joy after a rescue crew saved her friend from drowning. These extraordinary photos show a humpback whale ‘celebrating’ after another female was cut free from stray ropes attached to old lobster pots. The incredible moment was captured by Christine Callaghan, 62, a guide with a whale-watching cruiser in the…

That’s one piece of advice a pair of fighting eagles could have put to good use last weekend when Pennsylvania resident Rebecca Weaver found them in quite an odd predicament: stuck floating atop the frigid waters of the Susquehanna River with their talons sunk into one another. “The eagles’ talons were actually latched onto each…

Sandy Irwin and friend Lee Cockrum were driving near Sandy’s home, in Dorintosh, Saskatchewan, when she spotted the mother and calf cross the road 80 yards in front of them. As the pair got closer, Sandy noticed the mother moose had jumped a fence, but the calf had immediately become tangled, flipping on its back…

An Alaska man and two police officers rescued a baby moose from what police described as “a sure demise” after it fell into a lake and got stuck in a narrow space between a floatplane and a dock. He quickly spotted the moose calf stuck between the floats of the plane and the dock at…

A poor fox cub spent five hours with his head stuck in a concrete garden trap after he tried to get to a piece of cake.   Wendy Bradmore and Keith Collins found the stricken canine in what appeared a large concrete mosquito trap in their garden in Littlehampton, West Sussex. The female fox managed…

A villager in Colombia who thought he had rescued a small kitten from the side of the road was stunned to discover it was actually a baby PUMA. Elmer Guzmán was riding his motorcycle in Alvarado, a rural town in the center-west province of Tolima, when he found the small animal on the side of…

The distressed bird was in such a state it was initially mistaken for a chicken A barn owl has been rescued after it got trapped in a ‘sticky’ bucket near Totnes. The animal, which was believed to have hatched this year, was discovered after it fell into a molasses bucket, a sugary mixture used to…

Much like human mothers, mama bears are very protective of their young, however for them, it’s a much more intense world out there in the wild. They have to protect their cubs from everything. There’s certainly no denying every mother’s connection to their children, regardless of the species, and it’s fascinating to witness in the…