For more than a month, Rajeshwari, a 42-year-old temple elephant in India, lay desultorily on a patch of sand, her forelimb and femur broken and her body ravaged by sores. An animal lover went […]
Chhattisgarh forest department officials have confirmed the presence of a black panther at the Udanti-Sitanadi tiger reserve in Gariyaband district. Forest officials believe this is the first time footage of the rare beast has […]
An Indian court has granted bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, two days after he was jailed for poaching rare antelope back in 1998. The defence had questioned the testing of the animals and […]
A young Indian woman was lucky to survive, doctors say, after she fought off a tiger which attacked her goat. Rupali Meshram, 23, said when she heard the goat scream she ran out of […]
A Jodhpur court on Thursday convicted Bollywood actor Salman Khan in the infamous blackbuck poaching case of 1998. The other accused – actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre – were acquitted by the […]
A snake charmer nearly died after his python tried to strangle him during a live performance in Mau, a town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The man, whose name is not […]
Nagammal was just fourteen years old when she started working. Pushed by family circumstances, she joined the zoo as a teenager, which wasn’t yet the Aringar Anna Zoological Park as we know it today. […]
The bodies of 7 spinner dolphins were washed ashore at fishing hamlets in Tamil Nadu’s coasts on Tuesday. On Monday, 5 spinner dolphins were found dead in the same area. In total, about 14 […]
Four elephants were killed in Assam’s Nagaon district on Saturday after being hit by a speeding train. The accident took place when a herd of elephants was in the area, as the Guwahati-Silchar passenger […]
Palanichamy Sarathkumar, 28, has been inundated with messages of support since news of the rescue in Tamil Nadu state emerged at the weekend. Many wanted to know how he carried the animal, which weighs […]
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