From caring for household pets to wild animals, a Purdue-University educated veterinarian takes her skills beyond central ...

COLUMN. According to a study conducted in 11 South African reserves between 2017 and 2023, dehorning reduced poaching by 78%.

The whales use quick body movements to tear pieces of bull kelp for use as tools, perhaps the first known toolmaking by a marine mammal.

But in a 3,400-kilometer (2,100-mile) journey that involved crates, cranes, trucks, and a Boeing 747, 70 captive bred southern white rhinos were moved from South Africa to Rwanda’s Akagera National ...

When Marais approaches the unconscious rhino, he covers its eyes to protect them and then uses a chainsaw to cut off its ...

Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save the iconic endangered species from ...

Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save the iconic endangered species from ...

The dehorning of rhinos resulted in a nearly 80-percent reduction in the poaching of the animals during a seven-year study.

Taking the relatively simple step of trimming the horns of wild rhinoceroses is enough to dramatically reduce the rate at which the animals are killed by poachers.

By contrast, dehorning 2,284 rhinos cut poaching by 78 percent at just 1.2 percent of ... driven by demand in Asia where the horns are used in traditional medicine. Rhino horn is highly sought after ...

A rhino, front, recovers from a tranquilizer, after a hole was drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, in Limpopo, South Africa, June, 25, 2024 "Pandora's box": Russia issues new ...