Pig Was a Monster, but He Wasn't Wild
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FRUITHURST, Ala. - The huge hog that became known as &quot;Monster Pig&quot; after being killed by an 11-year-old boy had another name: Fred.
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WEST POINT, Miss. - When pigs fly, indeed. Kevin Pugh, 20, of Cedar Bluff, has been fined $279 for tossing a pig over the counter at the Holiday Inn Express in West Point on Nov. 12. Pugh pleaded guilty Tuesday in city court to a charge of disturbing the peace.  West Point Police Lt.
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Forget the bulls. Ignore the bears. The week ahead was made for wolves, hogs, and forgetful elephants.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - What do you do when a 1,250-pound crocodile turns into a diva? Take him away from his audience. Officials at the St. Augustine Farm and Zoological Park said Maximo has been refusing for about a month to cooperate for his daily feedings of guinea pigs and quail.
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The buffalo may be the iconic mammal of the American West, but the mule deer may be a more apt if less imposing and sentimental choice.
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A top scientist in the storied, sometimes controversial field explains how a population of creatures can be viewed as a high-level organism unto itself rather than a collection of disparate individuals.
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It was no bull in a china shop, but a wild boar rampaged through a clothes shop in western France on Saturday before being felled by bullets, police said.
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The discovery of a nearly intact child's skeleton belonging to the earliest-known human ancestor suggests a creature that walked upright like a man but could swing through the trees like an ape.
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The web video "Battle at Kruger," in which a baby buffalo is rescued by its herd from a lion attack, is less surprising to animal behaviorists than to its millions of Web fans
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WINTERVILLE, N.C. - Tim Langley is getting good at corralling escaped hogs. For the second time in as many months, the animal control officer on Monday had to assist in rounding up three hogs that had gotten out of a trailer on N.C. Highway 11.
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It doesn't seem as if Michael Jackson is backing down from his tale   of cruel and unusual "doo doo."
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The star of the World Dog Show is not the soulful Labrador, the bulldog with attitude or even the manic Chihuahua.
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HUBBARDSVILLE, N.Y. - Bob Peterson has one big pig on his hands. The hog named Norm, after the character on "Cheers," weighs an estimated 1,600-pounds, stands four feet high and measures seven feet from snout to tail.  Norm lives on Peterson's Madison County farm in central New York.
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One of Manny Howard's discoveries during the month this summer he ate only the plants he grew and the animals he raised and slaughtered was that his tough-talking plumber was too squeamish to watch chickens be killed for supper.
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One year ago, he was nearly hairless, pink and weighed about four ounces, less than most bagels. On Sunday, his first birthday, giant panda Tai Shan is an active, 56-pound cub and the star attraction of the National Zoo.
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A pig farmer alleged to be Canada's worst serial killer denies six charges of murder at a court in Vancouver
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He's a mean one, but he isn't always wrong.