Filmmaker Keith Scholey has a PhD in zoology and three decades of experience filming and photographing wildlife. Yet when it came to predicting the behavior of the lions and cheetahs of Kenya's Maasai Mara Nature Reserve, all that proved of little use.
A tiger swims in a pond to cool off on a hot Saturday morning. School children stroll under a canopy of trees and watch Kalimantan gibbons playfully swing on the branches.
Mortality rates may have fallen, but animals are still dying as authorities disagree over how to improve Surabaya Zoo.
In the UAE, big cats and other exotic animals are bought on the black market as symbol of status.
On a dusty day in the northern-most Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, 40-year-old Jasim Ali wrestles playfully with his four-legged friend Teymour over a chew toy. But Teymour is not a dog -- he's a fully-grown African lion.
Apple released Mountain Lion to developers last week, a new operating system that will make your desktop computer work more like your phone than ever before.
Wildlife researchers using hidden cameras have captured rare images of snow leopards in a remote mountainous region of Tajikistan -- including shots of a cub stealing one of the cameras.
It's normally a story of man versus beast -- but in this case the man is a three-year-old girl, and her wild encounter is thrilling online viewers around the world.
Three-year-old Sofia Walker comes face to face with a lion at a New Zealand zoo.
After 14 years of undernourishment and overcrowding, Elena, Kaitlyn and Alyssa heard the roar of other rescued African lions Wednesday at their spacious new home in Colorado.
He was one cool cat, trekking halfway across America before meeting an untimely death by car on a Connecticut parkway.
A "surprisingly healthy" population of rare snow leopards has been discovered in the remote northeastern stretches of Afghanistan, one of the few areas largely unaffected by the near decade-long war in the country.
A trio of rare Snow Leopard cubs have made their public debut at a zoo in Switzerland this week.
A mountain lion was killed in a car accident in Milford, Connecticut, on Saturday and authorities say the cat may have been the same one spotted this week in nearby Greenwich.
Authorities believe a large cat that has been spotted around the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, is a mountain lion that either escaped or was released from captivity.
Increase of tiger population and human sprawl has created human-tiger conflict. CNN's Mallika Kapur reports.
At 4.30 a.m., an hour before the sun rises over Bandhavgarh Nature Park in central India, a dozen elephants are prepared for the day ahead.
A young cheetah has been captured while wandering the streets of Abu Dhabi, an animal welfare activist said Sunday.
Zoologists were able to convince a female cheetah to act as a foster mom for an at-risk cheetah cub.
The young cheetahs chirped as a veterinarian gave them a quick but thorough checkup at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
Sitting at his office in Kathmandu, Maheswar Dhakal, a government ecologist, can tell exactly where in a jungle about 600 kilometres away, at what altitude and what temperature Namobuddha, a two and a half year old tiger, is at a given moment.
Dereck and Beverly Joubert talk about the plight of African lions and their movie "The Last of the Lions" at TEDWomen.
As you will see in our TED talk, Beverly and I have spent enough time in the bush with lions to understand that we have a problem -- rapidly declining big cat populations.
When a cheetah went walkabout in Sharjah earlier this month it caused widespread panic, reportedly surprising worshippers at a mosque before it was "arrested" and placed in an animal sanctuary.
Researchers have found new evidence on how tough survival can be for big predators such as tigers, lions, polar bears and leopards.
Two European-bred cheetahs are set to take part in a pioneering program to release their young back into the wild in an attempt boost their declining numbers.
CNN's Colleen McEdwards shows us a Russian tiger park helping to save the species.
DiCaprio was en route to the Tiger Summit when an engine blew and he emergency landed back in N.Y.
How much would it cost to save tigers from extinction in the wild? Thirty-five million more dollars a year.
Anderson Cooper tries to understand what animals think. Can they really communicate or are they parroting for a treat?
An elephant calf runs through a sprinkler, trunk held high with excitement. An orphan sea otter pup cries noisily until keepers join him in the pool for a swim. A tiny tiger cub sneaks up on its mother and pounces, only to be subjected to a thorough licking.
In 2010, the Year of the Tiger, about 3,600 of the majestic predators remain in the wild, their existence threatened by habitat-loss and poaching.
A Wisconsin man was recovering Friday after being bit by a 7-year-old Siberian tiger, the local sheriff's office said.
Rising numbers of captive tigers in the United States are putting citizens at risk and could be fueling illegal trade in animal parts, which threatens their survival in the wild, conservationists have warned.
MGM Resorts defended its safety practices Wednesday after amateur video surfaced showing a lion attacking its trainer inside its habitat at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, as horrified visitors to the hotel looked on.
A trainer needed stitches after a lion attacked him in front of horrified tourists at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
A live tiger cub hidden in a suitcase filled with stuffed toys was spotted as it went through a luggage X-ray at a major Thai airport, a wildlife trade monitoring network said.
A small Arizona restaurant found itself at the center of a nationwide backlash that included a bomb threat after it announced plans to offer lion burgers this week as part of a World Cup promotion.
Four cheetah cubs have been born at a nature reserve in the UAE -- the first cheetahs born in the wild in the region since the animal became extinct in the Arabian Peninsula in 1972.
The radio in the vehicle crackles. It's a fellow ranger telling our guide, O.T., that there has been a cheetah sighting. Visibly excited, O.T.'s lips form a huge smile as he turns to us, the tourists, in the back of his open-air vehicle to relate the good news.
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The Indonesian government is considering a controversial plan to place endangered tigers in private homes.
A male Sumatran tiger rears up against the bars of his cage, roaring. Even in captivity these creatures still remind us of their awesome power.
CNN' Ayesha Durgahee catches up with Ghanian ski racer who qualified for 2010 Winter Olympics.
Tigers could become extinct in the wild in less than a generation, the World Wildlife Fund warned Wednesday as it launched a campaign to save them.
The Cruise-Holmes family spends a day with tigers and jaguars and ponies
While the world remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, one frontier of the Cold War remains intact; the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea.
A camera crew from South Korea ventured into the Demilitarized Zone and discovered an accidental paradise for wildlife.
Before launching Zelli Shoes in 1996, Tom Mantzel was a Fort Worth oilman with a colorful side business: breeding exotic and endangered animals.
A rare white tiger mauls and kills a zookeeper in New Zealand. TVNZ's Melissa Stokes reports.
A white tiger mauled a zookeeper to death at a New Zealand wildlife park Wednesday as a group of tourists watched in horror, police say.
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