Animals

Workers are shown holding a nearly 16-foot long Burmese Python that was captured and killed in Everglades National Park, Fla., in October 2011. (AP Photo/South Florida Water Management District)

Washington Secrets

Critics say Obama caving to ‘snake lobby’ in allowing sales of killer reptiles

Paul Bedard · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

The carcass of Marius, a male giraffe, is eaten by lions after he was put down in Copenhagen Zoo on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014. Copenhagen Zoo turned down offers from other zoos and 500,000 euros ($680,000) from a private individual to save the life of a healthy giraffe before killing and slaughtering it Sunday to follow inbreeding recommendations made by a European association. The 2-year-old male giraffe, named Marius, was put down using a bolt pistol and its meat will be fed to carnivores at the zoo, spokesman Tobias Stenbaek Bro said. Visitors, including children, were invited to watch while the giraffe was dissected. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Rasmus Flindt Pedersen) DENMARK OUT

Thousands of zoo animals killed in Europe yearly

Malin Rising · February 14, 2014 7:01 pm

In this Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 photo, a local villager carries a sickle as a measure of safety as he ventures near the spot where a tiger attacked and killed a young man recently at Maniawala, northern India. The tiger stalking the villages has killed at least nine people so far traveling over 120 miles of villages, small towns and even a highway, spreading fear amongst the villagers many of whom are either farmers or laborers working the large swathes of sugarcane fields which need harvesting now. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

Indian villages fear man-eating tiger on the prowl

Tim Sullivan · February 14, 2014 3:03 pm

Md. deer hunt tally up 10 percent from last year

Md. deer hunt tally up 10 percent from last year

Washington Examiner · February 13, 2014 8:51 pm

Coast Guard reduces use of live animal training

Coast Guard reduces use of live animal training

Brock Vergakis · February 13, 2014 4:00 pm

Chick-fil-A to use chicken without antibiotics

Chick-fil-A to use chicken without antibiotics

Candice Choi · February 12, 2014 3:48 am

FILE - This Nov. 14, 2013 file photo shows confiscated decorative ivory piled together in preparation to be destroyed during an event at the National Wildlife Property Repository at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo. The US is cracking down on the sale and purchase of ivory in hopes of curbing illicit poaching that's threatening to wipe out elephants and other species in Africa. The ivory ban is a key component of a new, national strategy for combating wildlife trafficking, unveiled Tuesday by the White House, seven months after President Barack Obama issued a call to action during a visit to Tanzania. In addition to the ivory ban, the U.S. will seek to strengthen global enforcement and international cooperation to fight an illicit trade estimated to total about $10 billion per year. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

US to crack down on ivory to protect elephants

Josh Lederman · February 11, 2014 10:40 pm

FILE - In this photo taken Wednesday April 25, 2012, chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall holds a monkey doll she carries with her wherever she travels, in Pasadena, Calif. Jane Goodall, who turns 80 in 2014, knows how to work a crowd. In a packed auditorium, the elegant primatologist from Britain whooped like the chimpanzees she first studied in Tanzania in the early 1960s. She hugged an academic just like, she said, chimps do. She talked about her crush, as a "romantic little 10-year-old," on Tarzan, the fictional figure raised by apes. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Jane Goodall, primatologist and frequent flyer

Christopher Torchia · February 10, 2014 2:09 pm

FILE - This undated file photo released by Corbett Tiger Reserve, shows a tiger at the reserve in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Forest officials said another tiger who strayed from the park killed its 10th human victim in six weeks Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014. Deputy Director Saket Badola of the national park said the female tiger was outside its normal territory and prowling near villages on the border between Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Corbett Tiger Reserve, File)

Tiger evades hunters, kills 10th person in India

Biswajeet Banerjee · February 10, 2014 1:49 pm

Carriage driver Christina Hansen returns Star to a stall in New York's Clinton Stables. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Energy and Environment

Horses’ future uncertain if NYC carriage rides end

David Caruso · February 10, 2014 5:00 am

Cardin bill favors orioles, other migratory birds

Energy and Environment

Cardin bill favors orioles, other migratory birds

Washington Examiner · February 7, 2014 9:46 am

Afghan Taliban say they captured NATO military dog

Afghan Taliban say they captured NATO military dog

Amir Shah · February 7, 2014 8:10 am