Felonious fox fancies footwear

New Brunswick has belatedly discovered that mixing foxes and shoes only leads to one conclusion

Of course, this fox has no identity crisis. Stealing shoes and golf balls is extremely natural for a fox. If it ignored them, then I'd be worried!

Arizona Game and Fish sued over death of jaguar Macho B

Jaguars were once found as far north as the Red River, but, like most North American predators, their fortunes in the last couple of centuries make for grim reading

Without passing judgement on precisely what happened in this instance, there is certainly a risk whenever wild animals are live-trapped, and the scientific community doesn't always seem very keen to talk about this aspect. Some researchers (including Paul Paquet, a Canadian wolf biologist) are now attempting to find less invasive ways of studying their movements.

Flying Turkmen leopards to bring species back to Caucasus

This is a WWF press release. The Persian leopard is another subspecies that often manages to slip under the media's radar, which is a shame because it is a beautiful cat