Indonesia's capital is getting rid of the monkey business. Security forces are conducting raids to rescue macaques used in masked monkey performances on Jakarta's streets.

Game over. Cats have won the internet. At least that was the conclusion among the many attendees of the internet Cat Video Festival.

People who farm unusual breeds tell Dionne Christian why they find it so appealing.

Former fashion Writer Stacy Gregg lived vicariously as a real-life princess while writing her latest book, she tells Suzanne McFadden.

Poachers in Zimbabwe have killed more than 300 elephants and countless other safari animals by cyanide poisoning.

A Canterbury school is mourning the loss of a "devoted and passionate" teacher who was accidentally run over and killed by her husband last night.

A British scientist says he may have solved the mystery of the Abominable Snowman - the elusive ape-like creature of the Himalayas. He thinks it's a bear.

A bid to bring back kiwis to a Northland forest has delivered something to celebrate just in time for a national fundraising campaign.

Efforts to save a kiwi injured when it was hit by a car north of Gisborne last week have failed.

The owner of two rottweilers that allegedly mauled an 8-year-old Christchurch boy has been remanded for two weeks without plea.

An Iranian newspaper is reporting that the Islamic Republic plans to send another monkey into space within a month.

Janie the chimpanzee has died after 57 years at Auckland Zoo. The 60-year-old was old and had multiple health issues, and was euthanised early this afternoon.

A targeted programme to capture and neuter stray cats before releasing them would reduce the population humanely and effectively, a visiting American animal law expert says.

Pest, charming oddity or just background noise, the Hadeda ibis is a feathered phenomenon in suburban South Africa.

Al-Shabaab is deriving funds for its terror campaigns from elephant poaching in Kenya and elsewhere, activists and conservationists claim.

Crocodiles were once so abundant along the rim of southern Jamaica that images of their toothy jaws and spiny armour crown the tropical island's coat of arms.

From glitter paintings to yarn bombing, Danielle Wright rounds up what's on offer for crafty kids over the holidays.

Eggs laid by toxic sea slugs are the likely cause of seizures suffered by dogs walking on Auckland beaches, a marine ecologist says.