Although the gift may have seemed like an appropriate gesture, it has been criticised by animal rights campaigners.

There's more to protecting yourself than wearing an ice cream bucket on your head.

There are believed to be only around 100 white moose in Sweden.

​The world's largest nesting spot for endangered green sea turtles will be made over to stop baby turtles drowning and adults dying from heat exhaustion.

A new generation of poultry breeders is reviving interest a dying art as age-old practices raises animal cruelty concerns.

Chickens have helped Mark Killen change the way he lives. They have made the grass greener, both on his property and in the way he has viewed his world as a farmer.

Papua New Guinea may be one of the last refuges for amphibians as a fungal disease decimates populations worldwide, a Queensland academic believes.

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More than 25 million hens, plus millions of male chicks, are used by the Australian egg industry every year.

KISS frontman Gene Simmons is thrilled by a newborn calf born with strikingly similar black-and-white markings to the face paint he wears on stage.

More than 200 sheep have died after they hurtled over the edge of a cliff in the French Pyrenees.

The BBC reports the arachnid was the "size of a guinea pig", causing one of the men to flee in fright.

The world's first test-tube rhinos could be born from animals at a British safari park.

Officials said Xanda, who was 6 and had several cubs, was shot several days ago by a trophy hunter.

The shy joey has emerged from its mother's pouch at a nature refuge in south-west Queensland.

Luke Hunter, president and chief conservation officer of the global wild cat organisation Panthera, received an email last week from one of his group's partners in Tanzania. When he opened the attached photos, Hunter said, "My jaw just dropped."

It was meant to be a harmless selfie, designed to highlight the plight of the endangered crested black macaque.

Incredible video has emerged of an elephant being rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy, 16 kilometres off the Sri Lankan coast.

Plants can't run or hide, but they have powerful ways to alter the minds of herbivores that try to eat them.

About 100 activists took part in the rescue in Guangzhou, confronting the driver and stopping the truck.

More than 30,000 whales will head north this year.

Cane toads could become even deadlier because of their exposure to a common weedkiller, scientists say.

Chemicals flushed down household drains have caused around 20 per cent of male river fish to have female characteristics, according to research.

Julie Saunderson sees her family's pets, a pug and two French bulldogs, as members of the family.

A Ballarat breeder is boasting the largest Dalmatian litter in Australian history.

The slate and red palm cockatoo with its striking crest looks rock star, but has musical talent too.

Matty Smith positioned himself beside a football-sized orange octopus but the creature was having none of it.

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Canberra region egg producers have some of the most spacious free range farms.

In a competition annually dominated by the old, the tiny, and the hairless, the three-year-old Neapolitan Mastiff used her lollygagging youth to win the 29th annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest.

The grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park has been protected for more than four decades. But no more.

Three a day – that is the brutal average for rhino deaths in South Africa, and 2017 will be a crucial year for the remaining rhinos in the wild in the African nation.