A tiger was shot and killed after reportedly attacking a caretaker and escaping its enclosure in an industrial district in eastern Germany. The animal's owner was already under investigation for displaying dangerous wildlife without a permit.
A train driver in Germany found a parcel left in the passenger area of a train that contained 20 live tarantulas. The large, hairy spiders did not disrupt rail traffic, police said.
After a remarkable wolf attack in Hamburg kicked off a series of sensational headlines in the tabloids, The Local editor Paul Krantz reflects on what he learned when reporting on the animals in Germany.
A German rescue team used two excavators Thursday to try to save a beached humpback whale, digging a channel into a sandbank to help it re-enter deeper waters.
From Deutsche Bahn's Youtube miniseries to conservative leaders' misguided approach to defeating the far-right to a different (winged) type of migration, here's what we're talking about at The Local this week.
Compulsory microchips as well as bans on ear-cropping and tail-docking are among a set of new rules to protect cats and dogs that have been approved by European lawmakers.
Berlin Zoo said Friday its resident panda Meng Meng had delivered twins for the second time, hailing the rare births as a boost to the endangered creatures.
A swan mourning the death of its companion on
a German railway track held up 23 trains for almost an hour and had to be
removed by firefighters using special equipment, police said.
How stinky is a billy goat allowed to be? It's been the subject of a debate between neighbours in a Bavarian village for years. Now a court has come to some decisions.
The Agriculture Ministry confirmed on Thursday that the corpse of a wild boar found in Brandenburg was infected with African swine fever, making it the first known case in Germany.
Berliners are protesting - online and in person - against the possible culling of a peaceful pig dubbed Elsa who gained worldwide fame for stealing a nudist's laptop bag as a chase ensued.
A wild boar that went viral after stealing a
nudist's laptop by a lake in German capital Berlin last week could be caught
up in a local cull, an official said Friday.
A brewery in the German state of Bavaria has been forced to suspend beer production after a family of storks
made themselves at home in one of its chimneys.
Germany is to join forces with France to end mass shredding of male chicks at the EU level by the end of 2021, agriculture ministers Julia Klöckner and Didier Guillaume have said.
The cuteness level at Berlin Zoo doubled on
Monday when a pair of twin panda cubs made their public debut, with the zoo
revealing the cuddly bundles of fur were both boys.
Scientists in Germany have been discovering the human side to rats, raising difficult ethical questions about their use in medical experiments. Here's what they found.
