Animals

The concept of service dogs is by no means new. Millennia ago, dogs were helping early humans hunt and protect their shelters. Later, humans developed various breeds of dogs that helped them herd cattle, protect strategic locations, search and rescue lost persons, and do many other specific tasks. This honorable …

Have you ever gone to the hairdresser’s and got a slightly bigger makeover than you were expecting? It’s no secret that a haircut can really transform a person’s appearance, and it turns out this also applies to our most loyal furry friends. The cute dogs in the photos below were …

Nature has given animals a wide variety of distinctive colors that we can all immediately recognize. Many of these colors and patterns have become iconic in their own right, and have even influenced human fashion and design. However, with nature being nature, it occasionally throws us a surprise. Rare genetic …

The bonding between a human and an animal can at times be so incredibly pure! It might be the love you share with your adorable pet or some other animal you might know. But these animal-human friendships can show what true love really is. In these pictures, you will get …

Christmas, as the saying goes, is ‘the most wonderful time of the year’. However, if you think that it’s only us humans who get excited about Christmas then it’s time to think again, as here are 18 photos which show that cats enjoy Christmas (especially Christmas Trees) just as much …

We all love our pets and will be the first to say that all pets are beautiful angels who make us smile every day. However, our pets do not always meet the high expectations we have of them, and when boredom and stubbornness strike, they, too, are known to be …

Helle Løvevild Golman and Uri Løvevild Golman are both National Geographic photographers and explorers. The husband and wife team have traveled around the globe, from the Arctic to Africa, in order to capture positive images of endangered animals. Both Helle and Uri recall being fascinated by nature and its beauty …

At first, everyone thought this was a screenplay but did not expect it to be a true story. As we’ve read so many stories of people who decide to give it up – comfort, luxury apartments, a high-paying job in order to run away with the aspiration of a “real” …

The sloth Bradypus tridactylus deserves the title of “lazy king” in the animal kingdom because they are so lazy that they are always dead like dead bodies that predators cannot recognize them. In the animal kingdom, sloths with personality names are arguably the laziest. But among the sloths, there is …