Animals

Speckles is the first piebald dolphin to be documented in Australia.

With pet blood products in constant short supply, donations from dogs such as Rugar are the difference between life and death at busy veterinary hospitals.

In the dry outback town of Leonora there is a bovine invasion happening! Cattle including rogue bulls are wandering into the Goldfields town looking for a drink and some vegetation to munch on. The problem has become so bad that the town are considering fencing themselves off to keep the beasts out and save local asparagus gardens.

Staff based at Jindabyne have been the subject of "escalating social media campaigns", as well as a firebomb threat and the dumping of a decapitated horse head, according to evidence shared during a NSW Upper House inquiry.

A man has pleaded not guilty to allegedly removing a live silky bantam chicken, called Betty White, from a wildlife park enclosure and throwing it into a nearby alligator enclosure.

Usually snakes are unwelcome visitors on farms, but research suggests the benefits of their presence on agricultural land far outweighs the potential costs to farmers and graziers.

Experts say it's not all bad news for the WA native numbats, with recent monitoring suggesting the ant-eater is doing well in other areas after decades of decline.

As wildlife handlers set up in the common room of a South Australian aged care home, eyes trace the crates and cages with intrigue — and a little apprehension.

Chris Tippett says he has helped small birds and even pelicans before but a large eagle presented a bigger challenge. With no trained specialists available, he called on people power.

Wildlife tour operator David White has been feeding the cattle stuck in the Daintree Rainforest's mangroves after TC Jasper hit far north Queensland.

People power is fighting to save the few that remain along almost 555km of rabbit-proof fence in southern Queensland.

The escaped snow monkey was in a member of the public's garden when it was caught.

It turns out the pigeon was an open-water racing bird from Taiwan which had escaped and made its way to India.

Little penguins living on Phillip Island, off Australia's southern coast, are having so much sex there are now over 40,000 of them – and it's all thanks to climate change.

The owners of an award-winning farm helping to preserve the world's dwindling number of Clydesdale horses claim council red tape is jeopardising their Central Victorian business.

The Australian government says the exporter responsible for a shipment of more than 15,000 Australian sheep and cattle that have been stranded off the WA coast delayed its application to re-export the animals.

Koalas are one of the world's most beloved animal species, but Australians haven't always felt this way, writes Ruby Ekkel.

Michelle McKenzie realised she was not alone in the waist-deep water that was rising through her Laidley chook pen, counting 16 snakes trying to escape the water around her home.

A breed once used to manage livestock at London markets has all but become extinct in the UK but is thriving as a working dog and pet in Tasmania.

The two-month vehicle ban on Broome's famous beach is hailed a success with no reports of turtles injured by vehicles and more than 70 nests identified.

Some of the animals on board the controversy-plagued live export ship MV Bahijah will be offloaded in Western Australia and the rest sent back to the Middle East, under a plan put forward by the export company.

When Indian mynas move into an area they force native birds out of their wood hollows and kill their chicks, leading to a decline in native bird numbers.

The situation has put into stark focus the live export industry, with one federal MP saying it's a marginal trade and exposes animals to intolerable conditions.

Questions are being raised on the safety of swimming in Sydney Harbour after a woman was attacked by a bull shark on Monday evening. Calls to stay out of the water have been made by local councillors, but what do experts say?

A king penguin seen on a beach in the Coorong area of South Australia.