This adorable baby gorilla is learning some of the basics of being a gorilla, like how to pound his chest. But he underestimates his own strength. Watch what happens when he practices his chest thumping and takes an unexpected tumble! Although there’s no reference as to where this video from 8 years ago was filmed,…
Kiko the baby giraffe was found was found wandering alone in Meru National Park in Kenya by people traveling through the park. They knew the newborn animal needed immediate aid if he was to survive. After coordinating with the Meru Mobile Veterinary Unit, a rescue team from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) was mobilized…
One of Norway’s best-known hunters, Halvor Sveen, has adopted two orphaned fawns after their mother died. The fawns’ mother accidentally broke her neck after she got spooked and ran into a fence. Sveen noticed she was lactating, which led him to finding the two fawns. He knew he couldn’t leave them to fend for themselves…
Bruiser the Syrian Brown Bear knows how to have fun in the sun! The Syrian Brown bear is taking a dip in the swimming pool at the Single Vision Wildlife Sanctuary in Florida, and he doesn’t just climb in, he belly flops! Bruiser loves diving in and making a big splash. The brown bear also…
In Tarangire National Park in Tanzania there lives a very rare animal named Omo. Omo is a young white giraffe. White giraffes DO exist! Meet Omo, the white giraffe from #Tanzania's #TarangireNationalPark who's taking social media by storm! Posted by The Africa Channel on Monday, January 25, 2016 She is leucistic, says Dr. Derek Lee, the…
Here’s a close up of a male Anna’s Hummingbird that shows its beautiful iridescent crimson-red head and gorget feathers shining in the sunlight. Wait until you see 0:23…gorgeous! Filmed in Ventura, California, this beautiful bird feeds on nectar and insects. California is this hummingbird’s native range and in the early 20th century, Anna’s hummingbird bred…
I’ve always wanted to witness the Northern Lights in person, but like most people I’m not far enough north to see nature’s most spectacular light show. But this filmmaker not only captured the aurora borealis as it hasn’t appeared in over 10 years, he also filmed something extra special. Apparently, the Northern Lights are measured…
This is not something you see every day … a beautiful orca was helplessly stranded in a pile of rocks and crying out for help. Just off of the coast of Hartley Bay, British Columbia, Canada, one man spotted the desperate orca and made a call for help that saved her life. A group of…
Tom Mabe was visiting friends near Boulder, Colorado, when he saw a once-in-a-lifetime cat-vs-cat encounter. In this case, a house cat versus a Mountain Lion! Looking out the window, Tom sees a gigantic cougar staring down the house cat indoors. The brave house cat holds his ground and isn’t phased one bit by the cougar…
Emily was an orphaned elephant who arrived at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust after she fell down a disused pit latrine when she was just an infant back in 1993. When she grew up she went on to a normal wild life amongst the wild elephant community of the Trust’s Tsavo East Voi rehabilitation facility. As…
A young girl who was kidnapped by a group of men trying to force her to marry was reportedly rescued by a group of fearsome predators. The 12-year-old Ethiopian girl was abducted by seven men who wanted her force her to marry one of them. According to the UN, over 70% of the marriages in…
In the old fishing harbor of Vueltas located on La Gomera, an island in the Canary Islands, sting rays, eagle rays and Butterfly rays regularly come to visit the port. Over the centuries, fishermen in the harbor have thrown their bycatch into the port by the landing stairs, which has lead to the rays foraging…
This wildlife rescue story is absolutely heartbreaking, but it comes with a glimmer of hope. When a rescue team from International Animal Rescue found Gito the baby orangutan in West Borneo, they feared they were too late. They found the baby dumped in a filthy cardboard box and left to die. Gito’s mother had been…
It’s mom! A newborn baby koala joey is properly meeting her mom for the very first time and it’s so adorable! The tender moment was captured on camera at Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh, Australia. The tiny bundle of joy looks up in wonder at her mother while contentedly nestled in her pouch. She’s so,…
Every year, the largest gathering of brown bears in the world occurs in Alaska’s McNeil River State Game Sanctuary. Between June and August the bears arrive at the river’s falls to fish for salmon. For many years, people have been visiting this same spot, behaving in a consistent, predictable, manner so as to not spook…
Now this is a wild fishing trip! These boaters were traveling down a flooded river in Illinois when the waters started churning and suddenly come alive! “My brother, nephews and a friend go “fishing” down a small drainage ditch sometime during the summer of ’10 near the flooded Spoon River in West Central Illinois, USA,”…
It’s always fascinating when scientists discover new species we have never seen before! Recently, researchers embarked on an underwater expedition to the Puerto Rico Trench. It is the deepest underwater trench in the Atlantic Ocean and plummets down to a depth of 28,373 feet! Using remote vehicles, oceonographers explored to a depth of nearly 20,000…
They didn’t think anything could live in an active volcano, but they were so wrong. Scientists were shocked to discover sharks living in an “uninhabitable” underwater volcano named Kavachi, which is located near the Solomon Islands. Their discovery came as a complete surprise given the animals could “die at any minute” because the volcano regularly…
Pancake the cheetah is being raised by humans after her mother could not produce enough milk for her. She needed a companion to be her friend and keep her company and Wildlife Safari in Winston, Oregon thought a puppy would be the best choice. As it turns out, Dayo the Rhodesian Ridgeback was born on…
A woman traveling in South Africa was delighted when she heard a noise coming from her room’s balcony and discovered a herd of elephants drinking water from her pool! Carefully opening the door and peeking out, she sees six elephants of all sizes dunking their trunks into the water and spraying the water into their…
When Charlene Fritz was visiting Snow Hill Island in Antarctica, she wasn’t expecting to snuggle up with a 200 pound baby. But while on the beach, a curious young elephant seal approached her and cozied up on her lap and snuggled. Charlene, who recorded the footage in December 2011, made sure not to directly touch…
When Florida wildlife officers were called to deal with a black bear, they weren’t expecting to have to rescue him like this! An officer arrived in the Alligator Point neighborhood where the black bear was seen wandering. He decided the best course of action was to tranquilize the bear before safely relocating it. But after…
Rhinos are one of earth’s most ancient species but all species are critically endangered and only a generation away from becoming extinct because of illegal hunting and poaching. Rhinos like Sudan the world’s last white Rhino are under 24-hour armed guard. With such a race against the clock, conservationists are taking drastic measures to to…
It’s a heartbreaking and horrifying image of cruelty. A young wild orangutan desperately clings to her dying mother. They were captured and tortured by villagers when they wandered too close in their desperate hunt for food. Orangutans in West Borneo are suffering starvation and human persecution as palm oil production continues to destroy their natural…
Charter boat captain Eric Rue was the first to notice a pink dolphin in the waters of Lake Calcasieu in Louisiana eight years ago. Since then, he’s seen “Pinky” hundreds of times and watched her grow from a calf with her mother to more recently with her pod. He believes he saw Pinky mating, which…
Brad Rich was boating off the coast of Seward, Alaska when he and his friends noticed some humpback whales in the distance. He began filming the seagulls in the distance hoping to get a glimpse of the whales feeding. That’s when he heard sounds at the stern of the boat and got the surprise of…
If you think baby sloths are cute when they are dry, wait until you see them when they are wet. The Aviarios Del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica rescues orphaned sloths and nurtures the little ones and take care of their every need. Wednesdays are “bath days” for the babies, during which time their…
Jules the French bulldog just weighs 20 pounds. But she’s 20 pounds of no fear! When a Monrovia, California family were reviewing their security camera footage, they were surprised to discover that Jules defended their home by telling two young brown bears to get off her property! Recent wildfires in the area are believed to…
A West Australian man made a surprising discovery when he went to check on his pet duck’s eggs before they hatched. Cuddled among the clutch was a baby marsupial known as a bandicoot. The mother duck did not seem to be overly bothered so the man named Rex let the little guy sleep among her…
It’s amazing how much we still have to learn about aquatic animals! This incredible video reveals how clever octopuses can be! Scientists noticed the tentacled creature crawling on the ocean floor holding a coconut shell. They followed it and discovered the reason it carries around the awkward husk…it uses the coconut as a clever camouflage…
One thing that distinguishes humans from other animals is that we recognize our own reflection in the mirror. But perhaps there are other animals that could recognize their reflection? Innovative French photographer Xavier Hubert Brierre travelled to Gabon with his wife and set up a giant mirror in several locations in order to capture animals…
It’s a case of “karma-dillo” after a Texas man tried to shoot an armadillo only to have the bullet ricochet back at him. The man told authorities that he “felt compelled to shoot at the armadillo” after seeing the animal on the side of a highway around 3 a.m. in the morning, the KLTV 7…
Contrary to various media reports, the brother of Cecil the lion is alive and well according to a researcher monitoring the pride. News had broken earlier today that Cecil’s brother, Jericho, had been shot by poachers. But according to Brent Stapelkamp, who spoke with Reuters, “He looks alive and well to me as far as…
Amur, a Siberian tiger usually eats goats. That is, until he met one now named Timur. Amur lives at the Primorye Safari Park in Russia and is fed live food twice a week (usually goats and rabbits). But when Timur was put in the enclosure (the goat did not have a name back then), the zookeepers…
The Netherlands has joined the list of European countries that have banned wild animals from their circuses. In circuses, the animals often suffer mental and physical stress from being transported all the time and living in extremely small enclosures. There are also numerous accounts of abuse not to mention that the animals are forced into…
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