A collection of pictures, videos, news and facts about animals and their habitats.
Posts are those which are submitted or found on external sites as noted.
REMARKABLE killer whale displays attract tens of thousands of British tourists to marine parks across North America and southern Europe.
But, according to research, the spectacles mask the grim secret that the animals have killed four people and tried to kill or injure dozens more in recent years.
New research lends weight to claims that the huge predatory mammals are so traumatised by years spent in tiny pools, rather than roaming the ocean, that they turn on their human captors.
Four newborn meekats play at the Twycross Zoo in front of their mother
Picture: Twycross Zoo/PA
Critically endangered Maui’s dolphins swim off the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. The dolphin, found only in shallow waters off the North Island’s west coast, is listed as critically endangered, with just 55 adults remaining. Experts fear it will disappear by 2030 unless urgent action is taken
Photograph: Department Of Conservation/AFP/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
Galápagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki) in Galápagos, Ecuador.
Photograph: Jose Jacome/EPA
(Source: Guardian)
Fleeing from the flood, two deer swim in the flooded water of the Danube River to look for shelter in the Gemenc Forest, Hungary.
Photograph: Peter Kohalmi/AFP/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
Endangered Asiatic lions at the Gir lion sanctuary at Sasan in Junagadh district of Gujarat state, India.
Photograph: Ajit Solanki/AP
(Source: Guardian)
A sea lion dramatically emerges from the water in an attempt to steal an eagles catch.
Picture: CATERS
These lucky sea lions escaped the jaws of death by inches after a pod of killer whales risked beaching themselves as they chased them up the shore. The young South American sea lion pups had spotted the predatory mammals as they cruised along the coast of Patagonia off the tip of South America
Picture: Pablo Cersosimo/Solent News & Photo
Two angry squirrels went head-to-head in a spectacular fight over food.
Picture: Caters
A lemur at Isalo national park in the Ihorombe region, south-western Madagascar
Photograph: He Xianfeng/Corbis
(Source: Guardian)
A family of cheetah taking a drink in the Masai Mara, Kenya
Photograph: Paul Goldstein / Rex Features/Paul Goldstein / Rex Features
(Source: Guardian)
Seeing Eye Dogs Australia (SEDA) have a new litter of new puppies in Melbourne
Picture: Alex Coppel/Rex Features
An unlucky antelope is caught by a Nile crocodile while it was trying to cross the Mara River in Kenya
Picture: Michel and Christine Denis-Huot/HotSpot Media
Rejecting bullfighting is about more than revenue: it’s about rejecting torture. Stop funding cruelty with our taxes.
Across the EU many cows suffer from painful and debilitating illnesses. Urge the EU to protect them.
