Animals

What's behind those cute selfies with wild animals?

Every year at a Rochester hospital, the mother duck chooses one of the enclosed courtyards to lay her eggs. And when it's time to go, she leads a parade of ducklings down the hall and out the door.

The full impact of this potentially fatal disease is unknown. A new report calculates the places where animals and people are at risk.

A crew working on a building in San Diego found five kittens in a 60-foot steel column that had traveled from hundreds of miles away. The Humane Society says the kittens will be up for adoption soon.

New Hampshire wildlife officials relocated a black bear with a penchant for doughnuts more than 100 miles north — close to the Canadian border. A year later, she has traveled a long and winding route.

There's a type of spider that can slowly stretch its web taut and then release it, causing the web to catapult forward and entangle unsuspecting prey in its strands.

In Antarctica, researchers have found patches of life, sustained in large part by droppings from seals and penguins. Changes in those populations could have ripple effects down the ecosystem.

The Laos government and conservationists estimate there are only about 800 elephants left in all of Laos, just half of them living in the wild.

Two-humped Bactrian camels were domesticated thousands of years ago to carry goods and people across Asia. Every year, herders come to one Gobi Desert town to celebrate this gentle giant.

This week, the U.N. issued the summary of a report warning of unprecedented declines in biodiversity. Scott Simon makes the case for humankind to assume responsibility for protecting the vulnerable.

Chronic wasting disease is an illness that's spreading in deer, elk and moose and there are at least three bills being considered at the national level to provide funds to research and fight it.

Drew Inman saw a deer run across the sand and sprint into the water. Then it started to struggle. Inman grabbed his phone and started filming as the surfers carried the deer to shore.