By: Sarah V Schweig/The Dodo There are just about 113 Mexican gray wolves in the wild — and the U.S. government just shot and killed one of them. It’s the first time in a decade the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has killed a Mexican gray wolf, which is one of the most endangered kinds of wolves…
Animal Sanctuary Flooded By Hurricane Rushes To Save Everyone
By: Sarah V Schweig/The Dodo “When you’re faced with circumstances like that you’re stronger than you think.” Renee King-Sonnen is the kind of person who has made a habit of overcoming the impossible. She married a cattle rancher — and now the ranch is a sanctuary. All the cows that were being raised for slaughter were saved, transformed…
Young Tiger Killed After Escaping From Ringling Bros. Truck
By: Sarah V Schweig/The Dodo She was a former circus tiger — and just 6 years old. Suzy, a 6-year-old Bengal tiger who spent her life performing circus tricks, was shot and killed by police on Wednesday after she was found wandering loose along a highway in Atlanta, Georgia. Upon examination of her body, a microchip revealed that she…
People Forced To Surgically ‘Debark’ Their Dogs Because They’re Too Loud
By: Arin Greenwood/The Dodo “Whittling down a dog’s vocal cords for barking makes no more sense than punishing a cow for mooing or a rooster for crowing.” In a move animal lovers say is cruel as well as unusual, last week an Oregon appellate court upheld a lower court’s ruling that a couple must get their noisy…
Fisherman Catches A Rare ‘Ghost’ Lobster — And Sends Her Back Home
By: Lily Feinn/The Dodo “I wouldn’t have sold or cooked it either way.” Mythical sea creatures are the stuff social media trends are made of, so it came as no surprise when pictures of an incredibly rare “ghost” lobster quickly went viral over the weekend. Thankfully, the iridescent crustacean was back home in Maine waters by the time she…
Zoo Impregnates Elephant With Baby They Know She Can’t Raise
By: Elizabeth Claire Alberts/The Dodo “They were under a lot of business pressure … they were willing to do anything.” The elephant never should have been taken out of Africa, and she definitely shouldn’t have been forced to have another baby. That’s what animal welfare advocates say about Seeni, a 23-year-old elephant who tragically lost…
Guy Drives Toward Hurricane To Rescue Animals In Its Path
By: Mary Schwager/The Dodo “I didn’t really think — I just figured someone needed to help them.” When a young man named Connor woke up last Thursday morning, he had no idea he was about to be a lifeline for two lab mixes, Thelma and Hercules, stuck in the oncoming path of Hurricane Harvey. The 22-year-old…
Mutant Apes Discovered In Uganda
By: Tom Hale/IFL Science Something very strange is going on with the chimps and baboons in Uganda. For several years, researchers working in Kibale National Park in Western Uganda have noticed a growing number of primates suffering from bizarre deformities, such as missing limbs, patchy fur, cleft lips, concave faces, or flattened noses. In a new…
People Are Breeding ‘Monster’ Foxes So They Can Sell More Fur
By: Elizabeth Claire Alberts/The Dodo “Most people have seen the horrible conditions on fur farms, like the tiny, barren cages that the animals live in, but this was something new.” The Arctic foxes look dangerously obese. Dense rolls of skin cover their bodies like heavy blankets, making it difficult for them to move. Their tails are unusually…