Turtles blasted into space aboard Iranian rocket
A pair of turtles, a rat and some worms have been launched into space aboard an Iranian rocket, according to Iranian news agencies. Read More »
Lesbian albatrosses raise chick together
A pair of lesbian albatrosses have amazed birdwatchers in New Zealand by successfully incubating, hatching and raising a chick together. Read More »
Visitors sickened by Kurdish zoo animals’ plight
Visitors to a zoo in the Iraqi-Kurd city of Erbil have complained of sickening conditions and called for the animals, including a smuggled baby lion, to be relocated. Read More »
Kyrgyzstan to issue passports to sheep
Millions of sheep in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan are to be issued with passports in a bid to monitor and control disease among the animals. Read More »
Legal guinea pigs: Swiss to vote on lawyers for animals
Switzerland could become the first country to give animals – including goldfish and guinea pigs – the right to be represented by lawyers in cruelty cases if voters back the plan in a March referendum. Read More »
White rhinos to be dehorned in bid to beat poachers
Four northern white rhinos – believed to among just eight of the species left in the world – are to be dehorned in an effort to protect them from poachers. Read More »
Two years with the same bird too much for flighty swans
A pair of swans at an English wildfowl centre have baffled bird watchers by getting “divorced” and pairing up with new mates. Read More »
Thames eels prove slippery customers
Eels, once a slippery mainstay of Cockney cuisine, appear to be abandoning the River Thames. Scientists from the Zoological Society of London have recorded a 98 percent drop in the number of European eels in the river in the past five years and say that triggers alarm bells for the future health of other Thames-dwelling species too. Read More »
