Woman savaged by celebrity chimpanzee
A pet chimpanzee who starred in commercials for Coca-Cola has been shot dead by police after reportedly biting off a woman’s hands in a frenzied attack. Read More »
African wildlife stars in stunning photo collections
Image: Readers who have visited the current BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum will already be familiar with the work of Andy Biggs, whose stunning landscape shot of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast won the “Wild Places” category in this year’s competition. Read More »
Monkeys lay siege to Taj Mahal city
Image: Marauding monkeys are running riot in the Indian city of Agra, the home of the Taj Mahal, mugging passers-by for food and causing at least two people to fall to their deaths. Read More »
Hold the anchovies and help penguins in peril
One of the world’s largest colony of penguins is facing a battle for survival because global warming is forcing the birds to swim up to 50 miles further in search of food. Read More »
Help toads cross roads in real-life ‘Frogger’
Image: Remember Frogger, the classic 1980s computer game in which you were tasked with helping a plucky amphibian find his way home across a perilous busy road? Well, now wildlife enthusiasts can take part in a real-life version of the game after a conservation group used Google Earth to map hundreds of “toad crossings” across the UK. Read More »
UK’s red squirrels facing ‘painful, lingering death’
Conservationists in Scotland have launched a last-ditch campaign to save the native red squirrel from extinction and halt the invading grey squirrel’s conquest of Britain in its tracks. Read More »
Gun-toting Turks declare war on bears
Alarming news from northeastern Turkey where shotgun-wielding beekeepers have declared war on the region’s thriving brown bear population following a spate of honey thefts. Read More »
Charting the elephant superhighways
Elephants are the subject of the latest episode in the BBC’s stunning “Natural World” series – and one man’s quest to chart the extraordinary migratory patterns of these gigantic, graceful creatures. Read More »