The bunnies that hop around the University of Victoria campus may look like pets, but they're really a health hazard, university officials warn. Feral rabbits can spread disease, bite the hands that feed them and cause injuries to athletes

An eight-year dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing him safely alongside her own new puppies

BEIJING - Four giant panda cubs were born within 14 hours at a breeding center in southwest China, a mini baby boom for the rare animals, the Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.

Four rare African gorillas are on the last leg of an extraordinary journey home to central Africa after they were smuggled to south-east Asia five years ago.

Volunteers have built the $400,000 rehabilitation facility over 14 months. Aaron Machado, from the organisation Project Dolphin Safe, says it is important that the public knows about the centre.

Just outside Yellowstone National Park, where forest gives way to farmland, the debate over whether gray wolves should remain on the endangered species list takes a back seat to the brutal realities of nature. With the predators pushing down from the

Newquay Zoo in Cornwall had the Sulawesi crested black macaques put down by lethal injection because they kept fighting and could not be kept in the same cage.

CAT TRAPPER ACCUSED OF CRUELTY: Randall Filan holds up a vandalized part of the trap he bought to catch neighbourhood cats who dig in his garden. The Fernwood resident, who says he regularly has to clean up cat feces in his yard

Now, the tribal customs of Manneh and other West African immigrants have become the focus of an unusual criminal case charging her with meat smuggling, and touching on issues of religious freedom, infectious diseases and wildlife preservation.

German police are investigating a 29-year-old man suspected of shaving banned Nazi symbols into his dog's fur.