The parents of a boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure, leading to the endangered animal's death, have opened up about their son's condition.

For the research, the scientists studied sparrows on the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel for a dozen years.

A one-footed penguin at Christchurch Antarctic Centre named Bagpipes has been fitted with a prototype 3D-printed foot after losing his own to a fishing line.

An eight-week-old puppy dumped on the side of a road has been found screaming for help inside a banana box in Masterton.

Captive gorillas, conservationists say, act like an insurance policy in case we "ruin the planet".

The parents of a Kiwi woman who was killed by a crocodile have arrived in Queensland to help with the search for her body.

Former president of Wanganui Federated Farmers says dairy farming is responsible for 80 per cent of the degradation of New Zealand waterways.

The parents of the boy who fell into a gorilla exhibit have been threatened, as records show the zoo was previously warned over a security breach.

A video shows the 1-year-old Auckland Zoo-born calf Zuri jump out of the custom-made box in which she was transported by road to Wellington yesterday, and do a small skid, before coming to a halt at her new home. Source: Facebook / Auckland Zoo

EXCLUSIVE: The parents of a New Zealander grabbed by a crocodile in Australia have spoken of their pain as authorities continue to search for the missing woman.

Zuri the giraffe has arrived in windy Wellington; ready to settle into her new home at the local zoo.

The mother of the boy who fell into the gorilla enclosure at a zoo has blasted those who called her out on social media as being neglectful.

An adorable baby elephant had to be rescued after it fell down an uncovered well in Sri Lanka.

A woman who is appealing her conviction over a horse's death has her sentence suspended pending the outcome.

We joked it was just our luck that after hiking through Brisbane's eucalypt woodland for an hour the only wild koala we saw was in the car park.

There is a big road trip ahead for a giraffe travelling down the North Island today.

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Zoo keepers shot and killed a 17-year-old gorilla that grabbed a four-year-old boy who fell into its enclosure.

The 2-year-old is thought to have survived by licking condensation off the well's brick walls and eating insects in mud at the bottom.

It's every man's worst nightmare.

Way below the water's surface north of the Hawaiian islands, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has spotted a massive creature hitherto unknown to science.

A man who caused "horrific pain" to a dog when he castrated it with a Stanley knife claimed he was unaware home castration was illegal.

Tauranga Senior Constable Kayne Cording and his colleagues in the police dog section are in mourning after his crime-fighting partner Yoda died - but his legacy will live on.

Yoda's legacy shows dogged determination.

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Some of the most basic questions in wildlife research were, for a long time, surprisingly hard to answer.

Passengers on a flight from Melbourne to Hobart got a big surprise when a turtle dropped out of an overhead compartment.

Three lucky hens have eggs-ited the cage and flown to freedom and a free-ranged life, thanks to a group of caring students.

Startling footage has emerged of the moment a keeper was caught up in a boxing match with an adult kangaroo.

One of the world's rarest cats -- a Lykoi or 'werewolf cat' -- has been found in public gardens in the centre of Cape Town. The partially hairless animal, name Eyona, is one of only 35 such animals recorded with the natural mutation around the world since 2011, according to animal rescue group Tears.