Zoo time for owl-kicking footballer
A footballer who kicked a rival team’s owl to death has been ordered to do community work in a zoo and heavily fined. Read More »
Monkey brain scans reveal dirty sex secrets
Male capuchin and howler monkeys have discovered an unconventional cologne to drive their lady monkeys wild with lust: the smell of their own urine. Read More »
Colombian cops bust drug-smuggling pigeon plot
Colombian police have captured a pigeon they say was being used to smuggle drugs into a prison. Read More »
Surfing alpaca makes waves in Peru
Alpacas are usually found high in the South American Andes — but one of the woolly creatures appears to prefer the beach to the mountains.
Extinction plight of world’s rarest primates revealed
Almost half of all primate species are at risk of extinction with several reduced to barely a few dozen surviving animals, according to a new conservation report. Read More »
The newfound species facing instant extinction threat
A treasure trove of previously undiscovered biodiversity including a slug-sucking snake and 30 species of rain frog has been found in an unusual region of Ecuadorian rainforest – but scientists fear the creatures may become extinct before they have even been properly studied and described. Read More »
Death sentence reprieve for drug lord’s fugitive hippo
Colombia has lifted a “death sentence” on a fugitive hippopotamus and her calf once owned by notorious cocaine baron Pablo Escobar – but the reprieve came too late for another of the animals, shot dead by bounty hunters (pictured above). Read More »
Giant tortoise threat from reptile blood-drinking insects
The iconic giant tortoises of the Galapagos islands face a new threat to their precarious existence with local mosquitoes developing a taste for reptile blood. Read More »