Category: Animal Welfare
A swan mourning another swan’s death on a high-speed railway line in Germany led to 23 trains being delayed. The swan had apparently got caught in an overhead power cable and died instantly. The officials had to wait 50 minutes before lifting the dead swan and its mourning partner was released into a nearby river.
Rescuers saved a wild elephant that had fallen into a 50-foot well in Kerala’s Kozhikode district after a 12-hour rescue operation on Friday. “there was no major injuries to the elephant which was later released into the forest in Anakampoli” a forest official said. The rescuers using earthmovers to break the well and make a…
Rescuers scrambled to the scene after a baby elephant was hit by a motorbike on a road in Thailand. Thailand’s paramedic Mana Srivate who had performed dozens of resuscitations administered Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), to which a small elephant responded by recovering fully by standing on its feet. Mana was called into action while off duty…
Organised crime is exploiting the run-up to Christmas by smuggling puppies from abroad and stealing dogs and puppies in the UK. Dog and puppies are stolen for immediate sale and adults taken for forced breeding on puppy farms. Experts are claiming the demand for dogs during pandemic lockdown has led to a significant increase in…
Seven orphaned puppies are found sheltering adjacent to their mother’s dead body in -20ºc weather at Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia. The whining puppies had been rescued after three days, from the Yermelyanovo settlement. Rescuers fear their mother could have been poisoned by locals seeking to get rid of strays. The puppies were taken to a…
Apparently, some has shipped live crab – decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura) in a baggage hold as countless crabs invaded a luggage carousel at the Kingston Airport in Jamaica, a spectacular scene for lots of passengers. Most of these fragile and helpless creatures got stuck on the moving metal belt despite their sturdy shell…
Forest officials rescued a trapped leopard in Fatehpur village in Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh, in North India on Tuesday. An official said: ” The leopard was trapped by a noose and was set free by officials here. We face about 10 to 12 such cases every year”. The leopard will be released in a zoo following…