Learning the native onomatopoeia is just another step to becoming fluent in your adopted language. This week, The Local List takes it upon ourselves to help you along the way and answers crucial linguistic questions. What noise do chickens make in German?
Friedrich Mülln has been dragged through the courts and threatened with murder during his years of animal rights activism. His latest court case was in Munich this week but he tells The Local he has no plans to give up the fight.
A woman in western Germany got a shock when she returned to her locked car and found a strange dog staring back at her from the back seat. The mysterious incident was the result of a series of unlikely coincidences.
An expat in Munich is warning about the dangers of buying dogs after her new puppy died within 48 hours. Vets believe the pet was smuggled illegally into Germany from eastern Europe by a gang.
A motorway in central Germany had to be closed in the early hours of Wednesday morning while firemen rescued a flock of ducks waddling around on the road. The birds had escaped from a crashed lorry.
Hannover Zoo is celebrating a new addition to its elephant enclosure - the four-day-old baby elephant is the fifth to be born there over the past 15 months.
Munich police officers called out to a gang of vandals tearing up a lawn in the early hours of Wednesday morning found themselves facing seven woolly camels.
A cow injured two men in central Germany on Wednesday while making a break for freedom from an abattoir. One of the victims was so badly hurt he had to go to hospital.
A polar bear has died after eating a visitor's coat and bag. Anton the bear is the latest in a string of animals who have died after eating things thrown into his enclosure at Stuttgart Zoo.
A monkey which has fathered 50 babies over the last five years is being moved from a German zoo to give the females in his compound a break - and prevent incest.
We've all done it - woken up somewhere strange after too much booze the night before. But a bull faces the rest of his life in captivity after drinking two bottles of vodka.
German researchers studying squatting dogs doing their business have found the pooches have an "inner compass" that may help explain how they find their way home over great distances.
A woman who kept a huge wild boar as a pet was forced to say goodbye after it was shot and killed on Monday by a hunter in western Germany. She had raised three-year-old Lexa by hand since it was piglet.
Calling someone a bird brain may no longer work as an insult. German scientists have discovered that crows' brains work in very similar ways to those of primates, even though they are built differently.
A rash of suspected horse poisonings in western Germany, which has reportedly killed more than 50 animals, has turned out to be a deadly illness which comes from the creatures eating certain tree seeds.
A group of apes in a German zoo have been given a television in their enclosure and can choose between films - while a researcher watches them to see if they prefer action, romance, food or family topics.
