The research center said it had recorded six chimpanzee attacks on humans within the reserve since the start of the year. The forests of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa are home to the ...

People living near a chimpanzee research centre in Guinea attacked the facility on Friday after a woman said one of the animals had killed her infant, the centre's managers said.

If you have raccoons around your property, you might need to employ this method. Raccoons tend to poop in communal, pungent ...

The parasite that causes the disease lives in the intestines of raccoons and can cause serious illness in humans.

With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that ...

A mountain lion that was put down by park rangers after it attacked a 5-year-old boy in Malibu Creek State Park was a young, ...

New evidence from a mountain lion attack of a little boy on Labor Day weekend while enjoying a family picnic in a state park in the Santa Monica Mountains, suggests the attack may not have been as ...

It usually spreads to humans through the saliva or mucous of an infected animal, such as a bat, skunk, fox or raccoon. According to the World Health Organization (WHO): “Once the virus infects ...

so the dolphin might believe he's got a friendly relationship with the humans, Morisaka said. "If he really wanted to attack, he could have come tackling at full force and chomped down.

In the most recent attack, which occurred on Sept. 1 around 4:30 p.m. at Tapia Park inside Malibu Creek State Park, the cougar snatched the young boy by the head and began running away.

Rangers deemed the mountain lion a threat to the public. The big cats rarely attack humans. Earlier this year, one man was killed and another seriously injured in Northern California after a ...