Animals

Did We Really Once Have Animal Trials?

When animals attack, there is no formal prosecution, no court, or even a defense attorney appointed. However, this was not always the case. During the Middle Ages, animals were charged with crimes (usually murder) and were brought to court. They were appointed a lawyer and tried, just as if they were people; so yes, there ...

Troy Oakes

Boy Who Fell Into the Enclosure of Harambe, the Cincinnati Zoo Gorilla

The gorilla, named Harambe, only had 10 more minutes to live after a boy climbed over the barrier of his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and dropped down five meters into Harambe’s shallow water pit in 2016. Harambe, a silverback gorilla, was shot dead in order to save the 4-year-old boy after he had managed to climb ...

Hermann Rohr

Small Carnivorous Marsupial Back From Extinction

The small carnivorous marsupial, known only from fossilized bone fragments called a crest-tailed mulgara, (Dasycercus cristicauda) has been extinct in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, for more than a century. Well, that’s before discovering it in the Sturt National Park, northwest of Tibooburra. The unexpected discovery was made by a team from the University of New South ...

Troy Oakes

A Crest-tailed Mulgara.

Guandong Man Built Eco-Lake, Attracting nearly 10,000 Herons

He used his hard-earned money, which he had saved up over the past 20 years, to buy more than 1,000 acres of swampy land to create an eco-lake that has turned into an incredible habitat for fish. Liang Huanlin from Guangdong Province, China, took it upon himself to create this unique natural habitat. His eco-lake attracts around ...

Hermann Rohr

Meet the Tame Tiger Cub Breast-Fed by a Sow

The influence mothers can have on their young ones is quite profound. This does not only apply to human beings, but as the following story shows, it applies to animals like this tiger cub as well. This is how the story began. In a Thailand zoo, there was a little tiger born that, just after ...

Hermann Rohr

the sow and the tiger cub