A family in Chalakudy, Kerala, South India, found a fully grown crocodile lounging in the veranda of their home on Wednesday. The 3m-long accidentally wandered from the Chalakudy river to say hello. T Ajit Kumar, Range Forest officer said it took forest officials and locals over two hours to secure the crocodile to safety.
Category: Animal Welfare
On Sunday a tribal girl Pasula Nirmala, was in a field in Mannewada hamlet when a tiger fatally attacked her in Kondapalli in Kumaran Bheem Asifabad district, just three days after the big cat was sighted near {eddavagu in Penchikalpet Mandal in the district. The girl’s two brothers had gone to fetch water from a…
Kaavan, the world’s loneliest elephant has entertained crowds for decades from his tiny half-acre enclosure barren patch of land in Marghazar zoo in Pakistan, is finally Free, transport five-and-a-half tonne Kaavan on an eight-hour flight to to Cambodia, thanks to the determination of coalition of determined volunteers including the American pop icon Cher. Kaavan may…
A lion fell unconscious after being bitten by a venomous black cobra in Masai Mara National Reserve stretched along the Tanzanian border adjacent to the Serengeti- a photographer’s and naturalist’s paradise- in Narok, Kenya, Africa. The forest officials rushed to the spot as soon as they knew about the incident. The rescue team included Dileep…
The University of Cambridge said mammals, birds and amphibians globally could lose 23 per cent of their natural habitat range due to climate change and land by 2100. The species have lost an average of 18 per cent of their natural habitat. The latest study analysed changes in. the geographical range of 16, 919 species…
An elephant Vallabhan purchased from Palakkad in2002 by local residents and gifted to Malayinkeezhy Sreekrishnaswamy temple in Kerala, south India, neither able to take food nor hold his head high literally after the tusks grew heavier and 1.5m extra-long. He is awaiting tusk trimming. The 26-year-old elephant while lying down, the tusks rub against the…
“ A herd of elephants from the Chattisgarh, in Uttar Pradesh, India, lost its way to the Jarha forest on Sunday night and inadvertently attacked a house, and trampled an 8-year-old girl” according to Mohammed Zaheer Mirza, a divisional forest officer.
Anton Nguyen an Australian from Brisbane, Queensland, was saved by his pet parrot who woke him up from his bed as his two-storey house caught fire on Wednesday. “ I heard a bang and Eric my parrot – he started to yell so I woke up and I smelled a bit of smoke. I grabbed…
Every year on 1st November Vegans around the world celebrate their vegan lifestyle, which is beneficial for the health of human beings and fosters environmental protection as well as the lives of animals. The movement decries all acts of cruelty and violence against our animal brethren. World Vegan Day was introduced in 1994 by Louise…
The octopuses are soft-bodied eight-limbed mollusc of the order of Octopoda with over 300 recognised species and grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. The global species from the Western Atlantic, eastern Atlantic extends from the Mediterranean Sea and the Southern coast of England to Senegal in Africa, including the Azores, Canary…