OLDSMAR, Fla. - And some people get jittery about mice in the kitchen.
Sandra Frosti, a 69-year-old central Floridian, found an 8-foot long alligator prowling in her kitchen late Monday night, authorities said.
Frosti said the gator must have pushed through the back porch screen door and then went inside through an open sliding glass door at […]

BUCHAREST, Romania - A news agency says a man was rearing a lion in his back garden in Romania until neighbors decided they had heard enough roaring and called police.
Rompres state news agency says police found a caged 3-year-old lioness, as well as two deer, a stag and two peacocks roaming the garden of the […]

CLEVELAND - Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam — a find that carries great scientific and cultural significance. Swinhoe’s soft-shell turtle was previously thought to be extinct in the wild. Three other turtles of the species are in captivity, said experts from the Zoo’s Asian turtle […]

WELLINGTON, Fla. - The owner of a wildlife sanctuary was attacked by two cheetahs and hospitalized with about 40 puncture wounds to her extremities and back, authorities said.
Judy Berens was airlifted Saturday to Delray Medical Center, but it appears her injuries are not life-threatening, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.
Berens owns and […]

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Zoo workers should have believed two brothers who said a tiger was loose and had mauled their friend, but overall reacted well to the fatal Christmas Day attacks, according to a new report.
Inspectors from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the organization that accredits the nation’s zoos, called the actions […]

VIENNA, Austria - A chimpanzee cannot be declared a person, Austria’s Supreme Court has ruled, activists said Tuesday.
An animal rights group had sought to have the chimp, Matthew Hiasl Pan, declared a person in hopes of gaining guardianship of the animal.
The shelter where Matthew has lived for 25 years is going bankrupt, threatening to leave […]

The massive fracture that ripped the Beaufort sea ice from the west coast of Banks Island in the Northwest Territories over the past few weeks could not have been better timed if nature had planned it.
The dramatic event was “absolutely” the result of climate change, according to David Barber of the Circumpolar Flaw Lead […]

The director of the San Francisco Zoo where a deadly tiger attack happened has admitted that the walls of their tiger enclosure were well below national standards. The walls were just twelve and a half feet high, several feet below what an accreditation group recommends.
Friday, zoos nationwide have been re-examining the walls of their tiger […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Two days after an escaped tiger killed a teenager at the San Francisco Zoo, the zoo director acknowledged Thursday that the wall around the animal’s enclosure was 12 1/2 feet — well below the height recommended by the main accrediting agency for the nation’s zoos.
According to the Association of Zoos […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (CBS4/AP) ― It wasn’t quite as mysterious as a Loch Ness Monster or sasquatch sighting. But rumors of a young Bengal tiger, first reported in late November by a motorist who used a cell phone to snap photos of it being ferried around town in an SUV, turned out to be true.
Colorado Division […]