One day after an orca at Sea World in Orlando dragged a female trainer into his tank by her ponytail, causing her death, a crack appeared in a huge aquarium in a Dubai mall filled with hundreds of sharks.
Dubai’s Gulf News reported that witnesses saw water leaking from the mall’s massive fish tank, which holds [...]

SeaWorld said Thursday that despite calls to free or destroy the killer whale that drowned its trainer, it will keep the animal but suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths.
Also, privileged visitors who occasionally were invited to pet the killer whales will no longer be [...]

A virus that may weaken the immune system of koalas, similar to HIV in humans, is a new “wild card” among threats facing the species and nearly all koalas in Queensland could already be infected.
Read more at Australian Geographic…
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/koala-aids-virus.htm

A killer whale who killed a trainer in front of a live audience at SeaWorld Orlando on Wednesday has been involved in two other deaths, including one in Victoria, B.C., almost 20 years ago.
Officials say the whale, called Tillikum, grabbed Dawn Brancheau, 40, in its jaw and thrashed her around underwater as the horrified Florida [...]

A herd of 33 starving horses have been rescued from an acreage near Bonnyville, and charges are pending against the owner, the Alberta SPCA says.
Four horses were also found dead on the property, which was searched Friday by the agency after it received a complaint.
The surviving animals, several of which are pregnant, were taken to [...]

CALGARY – Two snakes are missing at the Calgary Zoo after slithering down a drain in their enclosure.
But zoo officials say there's no way the creatures have made their way into the city's sewer system.
They say it's likely the Malagasy Giant Hognose snakes, which are not venomous, are hiding in the building's plumbing system.
Zookeepers are [...]

A sled dog belonging to an Alaskan musher has died — likely of a heart condition — while competing in this year's Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, the race's first dog death in three years.
Bags, an eight-year-old male dog belonging to Terry Williams of Fairbanks, Alaska, collapsed and died on the trail between the [...]

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Pets travelling by air belong in the cargo hold, not the cabin, where their dander could irritate passengers' allergies, states an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) released Tuesday.
Three top doctors — deputy editor Matthew B. Stanbrook, editor-in-chief Paul C. Hébert, and Thomas Kovesi, a pediatrician at the University of Ottawa — put [...]

A Siberian tiger that killed its owner near London, Ont., last month has been transported unharmed to an undisclosed location, provincial police say.
The 300-kilogram tiger fatally mauled 66-year-old Norman Buwalda on Jan. 13 at his exotic animal sanctuary in Southwold Township, about 30 kilometres southwest of London.
The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to [...]