Animals

Cows aren’t the most likely TikTok stars. But Max Kruemcke has made the cows in his care, including Gouda, Mirabella, and Nutmeg, TikTok famous through his hilarious videos that showcase the personalities of his animals and the moments that make day-to-day farm life funny.

Millions on TikTok are fascinated by a Sheepadoodle named Bunny, who is using a soundboard to “talk.” Bunny’s owner, Alexis Devine, joined LX News to share how her 15-month-old pup became involved in budding research into animal cognition and what she has discovered along the way.

The National Zoo’s giant panda cub has been named Xiao Qi Ji, meaning “little miracle” in Mandarin Chinese. It was one of four names offered for a public online vote to help the Smithsonian choose a moniker for the baby panda.

An adaptation of the beloved 19th-century novel “Black Beauty” drops on Disney Plus over the Thanksgiving weekend, with Kate Winslet as the voice of the titular horse. Stars Mackenzie Foy and Calam Lynch joined LX News to talk about the modern retelling of the classic story.

Lynea Lattanzio is a self-identified “crazy cat lady.” She has turned her own home and 12 acres of property over to abandoned cats to keep them happy and healthy while she tries to find homes for those that are adoptable. Over the past 28 years, she has saved more than 38,000. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories travels to Parlier,...

The musk ox survived two ice ages and came back from near extinction. But their greatest threat to date might come from the unstable temperatures of climate change. Today, a musk ox farm in Alaska is working to preserve these ice age throwbacks.

Directed & Produced by: Matt Dworzańczyk
Production by: Etherium Sky Media

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The shift to the new site just up the road from Manhattan will mark the first time since 1920 that best in show at Westminster hasn’t been awarded at Madison Square Garden

A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued a distressed deer who had been caught in a current over the weekend in Clarence Strait, Alaska.

If you’re young and hungry, the place to go is New York City — even if you weigh 25 tons and have a blowhole. Whale watch captains and scientists around America’s most populous city say recent years have seen a tremendous surge in the number of whales observed in the waters around the Big Apple. Many of the whales are…

A man was seen dumping eels into the Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn by a witness who tried to confront him.

A rat has for the first time won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia

An organization in Lebanon has been helping reunite owners and pets after a large explosion decimated Beirut, killing at least 170 people and making over 300,000 homeless

Connecticut’s Kid Governor, Myra Stanfield, speaks about the importance of the Clear the Shelters Campaign to her platform.

With the coronavirus keeping many people at home and in need of some companionship, animal shelters have been seeing a boom in pet adoptions. NBCLX’s Eric Rodriguez explains why this may be the perfect time to add a furry friend to your family — and how shelters are keeping the adoption process safe.

Matt Beisner, host of National Geographic’s “Dog: Impossible” and founder of The Zen Dog, believes there’s no such thing as a bad dog — but it’s important to establish an atmosphere of trust and safety when you first bring home your new friend from the shelter. Here are Matt’s five tips to starting off on the right foot and giving...

Julie Sinaw was on vacation in Puerto Rico when she first became aware of the island’s large population of stray dogs. That’s when the seed was planted to form Animal Lighthouse Rescue, a nonprofit organization that rescues stray dogs in Puerto Rico and brings them to New York for adoption.

Arnold Guevara started with his Huntington Beach, California-based horse therapy program two weeks after losing his dad in a work accident. “Where I grew up there was sometimes shooting and fires and things like that,” he told NBCLX. “And it gets me worried because I feel like… that’s going to happen to my family.” On one of his first...

Fostering pets can be a great way to help an animal in need while bringing joy into your life. NBCLX producer Sara Sanchez, who has cared for about 40 animals, joined LX News to discuss how fostering has improved her anxiety and her life overall.

An animal therapy program in California is using rescue horses to help at-risk children in Los Angeles overcome their trauma. The Huntington Beach, Calif.-based program, called Free Rein, uses formerly wild horses that might otherwise be destined for a slaughterhouse to connect with children struggling with violence, abuse and grief.