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Thirsty work: Adorable moment orphaned baby elephant gets to grips with holding its own feeding bottle Bondeni tries to hold onto the bottle of warm formula milk with tip of his trunk Baby elephant loses his grip on the bottle and allows keeper to offer him a hand The footage was captured at the Sheldrick … Read more
And he would SWIM 500 miles! Orphaned seal pup is found in Southend river after making epic journey along coast from DUNDEE Garlic swam 500 miles down the coast in just a month after losing his parents He was found by Clare Smith while she was walking her dog near the River Roach The pup … Read more
Mrs Ainsworth was a plumpish, pleasant-faced woman in her 40s and the kind of client veterinary surgeons dream of: well-off, generous, and the owner of three cosseted Basset Hounds. It only needed the habitually mournful expressions of one of the dogs to deepen a little and I was round there post-haste. One autumn morning, one … Read more
Otterly heartmelting: Orphaned sea otter Joey chomps on ice cubes at Canadian rescue centre where he has become a livestream sensation Joey was taken in as a newborn by Ocean Wise Marine Mammal Rescue Centre In absence of a mother, he’s learning how to be an otter at Vancouver Aquarium The species came close to … Read more
Orphaned chimpanzees are found to face lifelong setbacks, as mothers teach foraging and social skills, study reveals Orphaned male chimps have fewer offspring and are less competitive as adults Chimps stay with mothers until they’re teens but feed themselves by age 4 or 5 Researchers think mothers continue to teach juveniles foraging and social skills … Read more
British child is repatriated to the UK from Syria after being orphaned when its ISIS-backing parents died during the collapse of the caliphate An orphaned British child has been repatriated in the first case since November Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced the repatriation news on Twitter The child is the first to be repatriated from … Read more
Best friends: Adorable moment an orphaned elephant gives two dogs a ride on her back in Thailand Six-year-old elephant Valentine allows two rescue dog friend to ride on her back The elephant carefully walks through sanctuary as her passengers enjoy the ride Footage was filmed at the Tiemchan Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai in Thailand By … Read more
Two British girls who witnessed their parents being shot dead by a mystery killer in the French Alps are to be reinterviewed – eight years after the horrific murders. Zainab and Zeena Al-Hilli were just seven and four when their father Saad, 50, and mother Iqbal, 47, were gunned down in front of them close … Read more
Tragedy as two girls, aged 10 and 18 months, are orphaned after losing both their ‘utterly devoted’ parents in head-on crash with ‘drug’ driver Robert Bateman, 36, and his wife Paula, 35, died following a head-on collision Their daughters Lexi, 10, and Elizabeth, 18 months, were also in the car The Ford Focus was in … Read more
Cat’s best friend! Abandoned German Shepherd-mix cares for orphaned litter of kittens like they are her own after being left ‘frantic’ when her puppies died German Shepherd-mix Georgia was found in July by volunteers in Arizona She was pregnant when she was taken in by Sunshine Dog Rescue of Phoenix But on August 13 her puppies … Read more