Tag: Animals
Chicago fire crew rescues parrot from office building ledge
<p>CHICAGO — The Chicago Fire Department didn’t have to raise a ladder to rescue a cat from a tree over the weekend, but firefighters...
Dubai police warn ‘wild cat’ stalks residential neighborhood
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai police Tuesday warned inhabitants of a residential neighborhood in the skyscraper-studded city that a “wild cat" was loose...
Russia’s northernmost base projects its power across Arctic
<p>NAGURSKOYE, Russia — During the Cold War, Russia's Nagurskoye airbase was little more than a runway, a weather station and a communications outpost in...
Tiny bats put kibosh on power line tree-cutting for 2 months
<p>PORTLAND, Maine — Tree-cutting on a key stretch of a power line in western Maine is going to stop almost as soon as it...
Trapped cat rescued from undercarriage of Isaac Yiadom’s car
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Firefighters in Florida were called to rescue a cat — not out of a tree, but from the undercarriage of...
Endangered red wolves born at North Carolina Zoo, doing well
ASHEBORO, N.C. — Three litters of American red wolves, which are critically endangered and number less than two dozen in the wild, have been...
Endangered red wolves born at North Carolina Zoo, doing well
<p>ASHEBORO, N.C. — Three litters of American red wolves, which are critically endangered and number less than two dozen in the wild, have been...
Trapped cat rescued from undercarriage of Isaac Yiadom’s car
<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Firefighters in Florida were called to rescue a cat — not out of a tree, but from the undercarriage of...
Sharks use Earth’s magnetic field as a GPS, scientists say
PORTLAND, Maine — Sharks use the Earth's magnetic field as a sort of natural GPS to navigate journeys that take them great distances across...
DNR: Dead swans at NW Indiana lake died from parasitic worms
HAMMOND, Ind. — Wild swans found dead last winter along a lake that straddles the Indiana-Illinois border succumbed to infections caused by parasitic worms,...