Category: Rescue Animals

For hundreds of years it’s been common knowledge that a dog is a man’s best friend. But that relationship may be in danger judging by the bond between this pet and an orphaned baby elephant. The African bull calf, named Ellie, was rejected by his herd and was then adopted by the Thula Thula Rhino…

The elephant had started refusing to work, shaking tourists off her back as they rode her through the forest in Chiang Mai, Thailand. To try and make her behave, the mahouts (people who work and ride elephants in Southeast Asia) would beat her with a sharp nail on a piece of bamboo, leaving huge welts…

A touching set of pictures taken in the Sabah region of Borneo show the calf getting into difficulty as it tried to clamber up the steep bank after crossing the river Kinabatangan with his mother. ‘The mother tried to push it but she couldn’t manage on her own so called on two members of her…

Two eastern screech owls were among the ninety-five animals admitted to the von Arx Wildlife һoѕріtаɩ at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida this past week. Other admissions include a black racer, a northern flicker, a wood stork, a great blue heron and two Brazilian free-tailed bats. A photo texted to the von Arx Wildlife һoѕріtаɩ…

And judging by these pictures, baby orang-utans are no different, insisting on being pushed around in a wheelbarrow by rescue workers instead of walking from their beds to a special ‘school’ where they are trained to survive in the wild. School run: Every morning these young orang-utans are taken from their sleeping quarters at a…

Orphaned at a very early age, the baby, named Joss, was kept illegally as a pet for two years in Ketapang, West Borneo, before being handed over to the International Animal Rescue and the Natural Resources Conservation Agency. Baby orangutan Joss misses her mother so much she hugs herself constantly, pictured, She was found in…

The young cub weighed only 3.75lbs and was badly burned on his paws. His whiskers were completely singed off and he had severe irritation to his eyes, Cal Fire captured the cub and contacted the Shasta County Sheriff’s Department, who then contacted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). ‘Partnerships like this are absolutely…

Video footage has captured the incredible moment a hiker finds two bald eagles tangled up in a tree. Kerr Will captured the jaw-dropping moment he discovered the two massive bald eagles locked in a potentially deadly embrace high up in an Alaskan tree. The stunned hiker was walking his dog in Kodiak on Super Bowl…

The other day, a man named Geoff was completing an errand, meandering through a grocery store parking lot in New South Wales, Australia, when he noticed a crowd forming around one particular car. Onlookers continued to crowd around and take photographs, causing the wallaby to become increasingly distressed. To help keep the wallaby calm and…

For hundreds of years it’s been common knowledge that a dog is a man’s best friend. But that relationship may be in danger judging by the bond between this pet and an orphaned baby elephant. The African bull calf, named Ellie, was rejected by his herd and was then adopted by the Thula Thula Rhino…