Jim and Jamie Dutcher spent six years living with the wolves in order to observe and document the behavior of these wild animals. The couple lived in a tent with no running water or electricity within the world’s largest wolves enclosure located in Idaho.
Springer spaniel Jess is a great helper for her owner on a farm in the UK. Three times a day the dog brings milk to orphaned young lambs—and then feeds them with a bottle. Jess has been trained to nurture lambs from an early age and her owner says that it would be hard without Jess' help on a farm with 270 sheep.
A guy raised a ring-necked dove and took a picture of the bird every day from the moment of hatching till it reached adulthood.
...but the habits remain the same.
Velga Vitola from Latvia found this bear abandoned in the forest and brought her to her shack in the thick woods of Ligatne National Park. The cub called Ilzite has grown up as a member of Vitola’s family and treats the woman as her mother.
A couple from Bloemfontein, South Africa, bought this cheetah cub at the auction. Today the big cat called Jolie is treated like the member of their family. She eats from the kitchen table, sleeps on the sofa and plays with the family's other pet, a German Shepherd called Franky.
"Saturday Night Fever" at the Arctic Circle!
A family of animal handlers from Vancouver keeps an 18-year-old grizzly bear cub Billy. The 113 kg (250 lb.) animal, whose favorite food is jam, swims in the backyard pool, plays on the carpet in the living room and even watches TV.
A 27-year-old horse had spent several hours trapped up to his neck in a muddy pond before his owner found him and called for help.
Hot pursuit and a boxing match - finding a mate for a hare is the task not for the faint-hearted.
In Africa photographers captured a dramatic moment of an impala narrowly escaping certain death…
A cat called Tiny was left in a box at an animal shelter in Canada. The cat was extremely fat – he weighed about 13.7 kg (30.2 lb). The veterinarians at the shelter prescribed the feline a special diet to fight his obesity...
Wildlife photographers sometimes go to great lengths to take an impressive picture.
This fascinating scene happened in Kenya when a herd of gazelles came to cross a river where hungry crocodiles were lurking. One of the gazelles did an incredible thing to escape the predators…
These guys are so overweight that they can barely move…
These pictures are hard to believe – a 31-year-old bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee) Kanzi makes fire and cooks food as easily as an experienced camper.
Hippopotamuses at Shanghai Zoo have their teeth brushed three times a week – and the animals seem to enjoy that!
A new on Tumblr called “Dog Shaming” collects the pictures of bad dogs being shamed by posing with a sign that describes their wrongdoings. Here are some of the best pictures from it.
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