What do you do when you have an intruder in your home that won't budge?

A group of Buddhist monks from Canada have saved the lives of a large number of lobsters, buying them from various vendors and returning them to the ocean.

This hapless man learnt the hard way when he attempted to hand out snacks to local primates.

A wildlife photographer has captured the dramatic moment a pride of lions bolted up a tree after they were spooked by a herd of elephants.

Academics fear for New Zealand's falling sea lion population after discovering a breed of sea lion was "rapidly" driven to extinction after human contact on the Chatham Islands in the 17th century.

New research into the complex links of the food chain suggest that the lovable mammals play a key role in managing carbon dioxide levels.

Source: Facebook/NRL A black cat appeared on the pitch during an NRL game between the Panthers and the Sharks.

Auckland sailor Paul Thompson can't always hear everything around him. That's where his cat comes in.

Everybody likes to rug up in winter - for some of us, the colder months make it much harder to leave the house and stay active. This

An exhibition in the Japanese capital is reinventing traditional aquariums of the Edo period

A Florida man has spotted what he believes to be an alligator in a tree.

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Hamilton Zoo has welcomed a male white rhino calf following his mother's 16-month pregnancy.

A male southern white rhinoceros calf has been born at Hamilton Zoo. Arriving in late June after his mother's 16-month pregnancy, the calf brings the total number of white rhinos at Hamilton Zoo to six. The male calf joins his mother Kito, father Kruger, and females Imani, Moesha and her daughter Jamila.

Source: Facebook/Rojas Montecinos Evy While walking through Naples, Italy, a girl came across a snake that was attacking a mother rat and her baby, but in an act of love, the mother rat vehemently attacked back at the snake until it retreated away.

Rat takes on snake - and wins.

A puppy found abandoned in a rubbish bin in central Auckland has been put down today.

He was missing for 15 days, but he was determined to find his way home.

They may fight like cat and dog, but adventurous pets Luigi and Bandito share a love of the great outdoors.

Dogs can cause sepsis in humans just by licking them, doctors have warned after an elderly British woman became critically ill.

A Huntly woman has been banned from owning animals for five years after a small wound on her cat's back grew to the "size of a palm" because she didn't take it to the vet for months.

When a notoriously irritable reptile with a mouthful of jagged teeth and a vicious underbite needs medical care, caution is definitely in order.

A petrified peacock runner has been immortalised in a series of hilarious memes.

Pet owners are being warned to watch out for gin traps in the area after a cat suffered serious injuries when it became trapped in one.

The zoo has had hundreds of emails, tweets and Facebook comments, with a great range of names, resulting in the team having a tough job to pick only two of them.

She's a valued staff member at the funeral home where she works, and Lulu is always on hand to offer a paw to hold.

Not just any turtle could help these scientists determine why loggerhead sea turtles are dying. They recruited a dead one.

A petition to save Chip the puppy from being put down has more than 10,000 signatures, but Council claim the dog is sick.

River, the puppy saved by a Bay primary school student last year, has settled in with her rescuer's family and grown into a lovable, large dog.