Speed Camera Catches Dog Driving Over The Limit In Slovakia, Driver Fined | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Imagine being a police officer and seeing the photo of a dog driver during your shift – yet that’s precisely what happened to Slovakian authorities October 3, 2023 at 21:01 <!––> <!– –> Police officers in the Trnava […]
Read MoreTag: Animals

Will a Dog Save a Life? 3 Owners Test to See If Their Pups Would Rush to the Rescue If They Were Drowning
There is nothing like the unconditional love one gets from their dog, but would that beloved canine be there for their owner if their life were in jeopardy? Inside Edition and Lisa Guerrero put three dogs to the test to see how they would react if their owners suddenly started to drown Also on hand […]
Read More
Same-Sex Behavior Evolved in Many Mammals to Reduce Conflict, Study Suggests
In more than 1,500 animal species, from crickets and sea urchins to bottlenose dolphins and bonobos, scientists have observed sexual encounters between members of the same sex. Some researchers have proposed that this behavior has existed since the dawn of the animal kingdom. But the authors of a new study of thousands of mammalian species […]
Read More
In the Big City, Wildlife Researchers Are On the Prowl
Early one morning last month, Laura Dudley Plimpton found herself in Forest Park, in Queens, staring at a pair of captured raccoons. It was not the first time that Ms. Plimpton, an ecologist at Columbia University, had caught two of them in a cage trap designed for one. But typically when that happened, she would […]
Read More
Dogs Get New Job After No Longer Being Used for Rescues
In Switzerland, St. Bernard dogs are one of its national symbols, known for rescuing people from avalanches. The size that made the St. Bernard a great avalanche dog has now become a disadvantage. Smaller breeds that are easily transported in helicopters to rescue sites are now preferred. Switzerland’s Barry Foundation has helped train St. Bernards […]
Read More
Hunting Contest Reveals Rifts Over Invasive Species in New Zealand
The pickup trucks rolled up one by one, ferrying a stream of animal carcasses into the show grounds. Pigs, deer, possums, even feral cats — all would be weighed and showcased, the bigger animals strung on racks, the smaller ones laid out in rows that became heaps as the day went on. The event, a […]
Read More
A Statue Draped With Snakes? In Italy, It Happens Every Year.
It was the morning of May 1, and the Italian village of Cocullo was almost unrecognizable. The typical placidity of its quiet alleys and muted central square had given way to several thousand people: religious travelers, musicians, young women in ornate costumes, tourists from the far corners of the country and beyond. A group of […]
Read More
Arsenic Preserved the Animals, But Killed the Museum
Usually, you go to the zoo to look at live animals. But at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, people also went to see the dead ones. The attraction, called the Delbridge Museum of Natural History, hosted one of the most impressive taxidermy collections in the country, with some 150 animals from […]
Read More
The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean?
Reiss’s research on dolphin cognition is one of a handful of projects on animal communication that dates back to the 1980s, when there were widespread funding cuts in the field, after a top researcher retracted his much-hyped claim that a chimpanzee could be trained to use sign language to converse with humans. In a study […]
Read More
You May Have This Blobby Animal to Thank for Your Nervous System
For hundreds of millions of years, pancake-shaped animals the size of a needle tip have been roving the seas with an appetite for tasty microbes and algae. They’re called placozoans, and are among the simplest of the major animal lineages. As simple as they are, a team of researchers has found compelling evidence of neuron-like […]
Read More
Florida Gator Missing Half its Jaw Rescued by 2 Trappers and Is ‘Resting Safely’
A Florida alligator that got national attention for missing half its jaw has been rescued. Katrina Shadix took to Facebook in late August to ask if anyone could help the poor gator. Luckily, on Thursday night Bear Warriors United, a non-profit organization focused on saving bears, posted an update saying that the gator had been […]
Read More
Study decodes surprising approach mice take in learning
Neuroscience discoveries ranging from the nature of memory to treatments for disease have depended on reading the minds of mice, so researchers need to truly understand what the rodents’ behavior is telling them during experiments. In a new study that examines learning from reward, MIT researchers deciphered some initially mystifying mouse behavior, yielding new ideas […]
Read More
14-Foot Alligator Gets a Little Too Close to 3 Girl Scouts Swimming in Lake
A terrifying moment between an alligator and a Girl Scouts troop was caught on camera. The three scouts, Wren, Delilah, and Kylee, were all swimming in a lake when the 14-foot reptile approached them. Witnesses described the alligator as being in “attack mode”. “I was really scared,” Wren tells Inside Edition. Delilah’s mother, Nichole Glenn, the […]
Read More
How Yoda, the K9, Helped Capture Escaped Pennsylvania Prisoner Danelo Cavalcante
Yoda, the K9 who subdued escaped Pennsylvania convict Danelo Cavalcante, is being hailed a hero. The K9 is trained to “bite and hold.” Released photos show Yoda pinning Cavalcante by the legs after biting his scalp. “Yoda’s ability to smell that person from a distance, it’s so essential,” authorities say. Yoda is a Belgian Malinois, […]
Read More
SeaLife Center sends off seals at Kenai beach
Under a slate gray sky and relentless rainfall, two 45-pound harbor seals hopped from the shores of Kenai North Beach into Cook Inlet on Thursday morning. While 40 or so people wearing rain jackets in every color of the rainbow looked on, harbor seals Tuber and Darth Tater were released from the care of the […]
Read More
Paris Turns ‘Little Belt’ of Train Tracks Into Green Spaces
Across the street from a block of dense office buildings in western Paris, Bernard Sokler was surrounded by trees, weeds and crickets, as he tended to a bush of purple wildflowers in a largely forgotten strip of land. Mr. Sokler, 60, and his team look after the greenery around a set of disused train tracks […]
Read More
Whose Cat Is It? Fierce Custody Battle Over Feline Named Bob, AKA Maui
Carol Holmes lives in Kansas and says her cat, Bob, disappeared 10 years ago. She was notified over the weekend by a vet in North Carolina that her pet had miraculously been found, thanks to his microchip. Alex Streight lives in North Carolina and says the feline’s name is Maui, and that she has been […]
Read More
Alligator With Missing Upper Jaw Discovered in Florida
A Florida woman found an alligator with the top half of its jaw missing. The Seminole County woman took to Facebook to ask if anyone could help the poor gator. “I think an image like this, missing the whole part of your face, is very shocking,” licensed wildlife rehabilitator Kim Titterington told WESH. Titterington told the […]
Read More