When her parents told her she couldn’t get a horse, German teenager Regina Mayer refused to give up her dream of becoming a showjumper, grabbing the bull by the horns and training Luna, the family cow, to leap fences.
Berlin Zoo is mourning the sudden death of “Cute Knut”, the iconic polar bear who shot to fame when he was abandoned by his mother as a cub and ended up on the cover of Vanity Fair. Read More »
A German actor has defended teaching a dog to perform the Nazi saltute for a TV show after criticism from animal welfare campaigners. Read More »
A German zoo’s tiger has undergone a daring three-hour operation to be fitted with a titanium artificial hip. Read More »
A German man has admitted smuggling hundreds of live tarantulas into the United States and elsewhere in the world through the post. Read More »
A visually-impaired opossum called Heidi has become Germany’s latest animal star after gaining 82,000 Facebook fans.
German officials attempted to bring a Finnish chemist to trial at the height of World War Two for training his dog to raise his paw in a mocking Nazi salute whenever Hitler’s name was mentioned, newly found German Foreign Ministry documents have revealed. Read More »
A pair of gay penguins at a German zoo have fathered a chick after successfully adopting an abandoned egg. Read More »