Mammals

The elephant, known as Mundi, was orphaned at a young age and later captured from the wild. She was then sold to a zoo where she lived in isolation for decades.

"Some may view her as a celebrity, to others, she is a nuisance," an official at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Anchorage told Newsweek.

Stuart Hall, who lives in San Luis Obispo, California, told Newsweek that he was "amazed the animal came right up to our front door."

Some elephants have made their home in this African desert—probably the toughest place on Earth to survive for these animals.

Known relatives have ended up on different sides of the conflict between two factions that once made up the same group—the largest chimp society ever recorded.

"It's playtime, and these little lions want to show you how much fun they have," wrote Bandelier National Monument.

The dead animals in the truck were collected in the Curecanti National Recreation Area in western Colorado.

Can an AI system keep a cat happy? An unusual art experiment based in a specially designed cat environment is attempting to find out.

While colleges battle it out on the court to win the NCAA tournament, there is a March Mammal Madness competition that pitches animals in hypothetical fights.

The bizarre animal, found in eastern North America, has a strange body part that helps make it one of the fastest foragers in the animal kingdom.

In a world first, the three grizzly bears were found to have a form of highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as bird flu.

"I never thought I could feel so deeply connected to a deer, but there I was, sobbing in below-zero temperatures," Tina Williams told Newsweek.

"We first became concerned when we realized the width of the tail was more than the width of our [16-foot] boat," Tamanui Uerata said.

"The specimens in this subspecies are one of the smallest common bottlenose dolphins found," marine researcher Ana Costa said.

A study of virus spillover from bats to other animals in Australia could have significant implications for the prevention of future pandemics.

Australian fisherman Trapman Bermagui, who filmed the encounter, said he could hear the attack from over 300 feet away.

Everything you never knew about hippos, including how they are closely related to whales.

James Corden attended the premiere of his new Amazon Prime Video TV show "Mammals" after facing joke plagiarism claims and backlash over a restaurant visit.

The virus that causes the disease is highly infectious and can spread easily among rabbits and hares.

A viral clip of the winged mammals flying from the Cueva de Los Murciélagos near Monterrey, Mexico, was shared to Reddit, having been filmed in 2020.

Mario Alberto Canales Najjar was gored by the buffalo weighing more than a ton during a hunting trip with three friends in the Argentine province of Entre Ríos.

Colossal Biosciences is working on the development of a vaccine designed to protect endangered Asian elephants from a highly fatal disease.

The killer whale, Kiska, has been held in captivity for more than four decades, during which time she has had five children, all of whom died.

Marine mammal expert Luke Rendell told Newsweek that interactions are "entirely common" as orcas often hunt humpback whales for food.

The critically endangered species is so rare there now only around 20 roaming North Carolina.

The elk was spotted in the middle of a busy intersection in Colorado, with around 30 feet of fencing tangled in its antlers.

"He was staring at him like he was dinner. He looked thin and hungry," Nidah Barber-Raymond told Newsweek.

"I stepped out of my house when I heard the neighbours screaming, and that's when I came face to face with the beast," the victim said.

The attack in the city of Medford involved a bear estimated to weigh 150 to 200 pounds, which "rushed" and attacked the woman.

During the bison mating season, which runs from mid-July through September, males can be aggravated easily, the National Park Service says.