A sickly piglet who was saved from death by an animal rescue charity has befriended six dogs who helped raise her. The real-life Babe the pig, who was born a runt, was due to be shot by owners until staff […]
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When people meet each other, they shake hands, slap five, smile, salute, bow, embrace, say, Yo. Hello. How are you? Good morning. Good evening. What’s up? What’s new? They may be happy to see each other. They may not care […]
One type eats small fish and lives in closely-related pods, the other eats marine mammals such as dolphins and is related to the Antarctic killer whale. If the two continue on the same trajectory, they could evolve into two different […]
Blackbirds, Thrushes and Robins are among the birds relying on Britain’s army of animal lovers for food once autumn berries have been eaten and insects become scarce due to the cold. Gavin Warburton, senior pet food buyer at Tesco, said: […]
With their formidable six-feet wingspan and hefty undercarriage, a swan looks as reliably airborne as anything else around Heathrow. But every autumn and winter on the M25, crash-landing juvenile swans cause as much traffic congestion as car accidents. The worst […]
Cats and dogs, usually enemies in the game of survival, here in Garden of Good Hope they sleep, eat and play together. Among Siberia husky puppies grows baby black panther, which was rejected by her mother. Baby panther obviously doesn’t […]
Solitary magpies are supposed to bring bad luck, but birdspotters have not been put off flocking to see the rare albino specemin. The odd-looking bird had been spotted in the grounds of Dover Castle in Kent and being fed by […]
BUTTERFLY sex is not as elegant an affair as you might think. It seems that male monarch butterflies conduct an all-out sperm war based on a crude measure of how much sperm is stored inside a female from a previous […]
The German Shepherd Dog originated in 1899 at Karlsruhe, Germany due to the efforts of Captain Max von Stephanitz and others. Derived from the old breeds of herding and farm dogs, the first German Shepherd Dog exhibited in America was […]
With his piercing blue eyes and pale skin this rare alligator stands out like a sore thumb. Weighing over 500 pounds, Bouya Blan is one of only 12 white alligators in the world. The 22-year-old, whose name means white fog, […]