Dogs have been used in the police force and in the armed forces from centuries. They are smart and loyal and braver than a lot of people. But at times they will have to go to places that may not be the safest. At times, the air can have toxic gases and other pollutants that can harm the animal. This...

Here is something quite strange. Not everybody can look at a lizard and think of how tasty they can be but in the pictures you see a man catching a lizard to do just that. Their population is large enough for people to hunt them down for food. Desert is their habitat and it is quite common to hunt them...

It sounds like an odd gift to you or me – but for a polar bear, it’s just perfect. At least, that’s what Willy the polar bear seemed to think as he played with the two and a half tons of ice cubes partially covered in maple syrup. The ice cubes were trucked into Willy’s enclosure...

The colossal mammal is being ruthlessly slaughtered to extinction by ivory poachers with the population – currently 600,000 – diminishing by 38,000 a year. These figures, calculated using the annual number of illegal tusk seizures, significantly exceed elephant birth rates meaning...

Some animal fathers have taken other paths–shaped by such factors as severe living conditions that require effort from both parents for the young to survive. Or unusual reproductive techniques like external fertilization (used by fish) that leave males the last ones present–and therefore...

Nothing can give you the most thrilling minute of your life than a amazing ride with some of these wonderful animals. Elephant  Rides Elephants, the largest land animals in the world, inspire a feeling of awe and respect in most people. Weighing up to 6 tons (11 000lb) and reaching speeds of up to...

A simmering sea of pink, they are one of the marvels of the natural world. This astonishing picture taken by specialist aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand shows flamingos on Lake Nakuru in Kenya’s Rift Valley, where up to 1.5 million have been seen at a time. Widely regarded as the greatest...

You know you would generally think that people don’t care about animals but then you go an show them pictures like that and it seems that you open up a window of compassion that for a moment makes everyone happy… Koopa is the world’s first internationally collected, professional turtle...

A young girl found herself in a prickly situation when she tried to rescue an echidna from a drain outside a Moe fast-food restaurant last night. The girl, aged about 12, saw the echidna dart down a stormwater drain at McDonald’s on the Princes Freeway about 6.30pm and became concerned for its...