Melbourne Zoo's newborn elephant cannot stand, which leaves her future uncertain.

A woman in her 40s has suffered multiple bite wounds after being attacked by a dog in Hunterville, in the Rangitikei district.

A family got a little closer to nature than they bargained for when a bear opened their car door at Yellowstone National Park.

A Chinese village is overrun with monkeys after a plan to increase tourism in the area spectacularly backfired.

The body of toddler snatched by alligator at Disney resort has been found, says a source close to the investigation.

Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings says some 50 people are now "working on recovering the body" of a 2-year-old boy snatched by an alligator at Walt Disney World.

This image of Diggy the dog went viral. Then his owner was visited by police and told if he didn't get rid of Diggy, he could be put down.

There were plenty of high-pitched squeals from Auckland zoo-goers as two cute new-born capybaras drew crowds.

Kiwi pop star Jamie McDell has written a song to bring to people's attention that only 55 of the protected species remain.

Woman shares security footage of boy sneaking into her garage every day to cuddle her dog ... and then finds out the boy's own dog died from old age last year.

People have been trying to understand how living things know where they're going for more than 100 years.

Emergency Services have successfully rescued a horse trapped by dangerously rising floodwaters in the Otaki River.

Husar, a 400-kilogram male manatee, arrived at his new home in the Paris Zoo Thursday morning after travelling from Italy. Source: AFP

And it smelt delicious, according to his rescuers.

A woman reviewing security camera footage at her home was surprised to notice a little boy sneaking into her garage. The footage revealed a boy riding past Hollie Breaux Mallet's home in Louisiana before jumping off his bike and running into her garage. But rather than being up to no good, he was captured playing with the woman's pet dog, Duchess. The footage then shows him leaving the garage and riding away.

COMMENT: Pigs with human organs may sound "yuck" but is just another case of swapping DNA, writes John Harris.

Bretagne responded to multiple natural disasters across the country, including Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

The policeman who jumped out of a second-storey window to escape a gunman during the Porirua seige has spoken about how he feared for his life.

Attempts are being made to capture a flock of kea in Haast, after one was found to be suffering from lead poisoning.

New staff appointments at hotels are rarely of any interest to guests, except in the very exceptional case of this very exceptional worker.

Animal rights activists have called for the release of an orca whale filmed deliberately beaching herself and lying motionless at the side of the pool for several minutes after a show at Tenerife's Loro Parque zoo.

Heartbreaking footage shows a captive killer whale appearing to beach itself on a concrete slab following a show for tourists at a theme park.

Kiwi researchers have used drones to capture stunning footage of Bryde's whales foraging off Auckland's coast.

WATCH: Kiwi researchers have used drones to capture stunning footage of critically threatened Bryde's whales foraging off Auckland's coast.

Source: WOOD TV8 The parents of a 45-year-old who was fatally shot at home in the United State said they think his talking pet continues to relive the slaying.

Source: Youtube.com/indvdos The bizarre moment a monkey robbed a jewellery store for 10,000 rupees.

A false killer whale that had stranded north of New Brighton in Christchurch has now disappeared from sight - giving rescuers high hopes it will survive and rejoin its pod.

Mainland New Zealand's largest yellow-eyed penguin colony is in "dire'' need of protection from crowds of tourists

COMMENT: How do toddlers end up in gorilla cages? Probably the same way they end up behind cars in driveways.