WATCH: Kiwi researchers have used drones to capture stunning footage of critically threatened Bryde's whales foraging off Auckland's coast.

Source: WOOD TV8 The parents of a 45-year-old who was fatally shot at home in the United State said they think his talking pet continues to relive the slaying.

Source: Youtube.com/indvdos The bizarre moment a monkey robbed a jewellery store for 10,000 rupees.

A false killer whale that had stranded north of New Brighton in Christchurch has now disappeared from sight - giving rescuers high hopes it will survive and rejoin its pod.

Mainland New Zealand's largest yellow-eyed penguin colony is in "dire'' need of protection from crowds of tourists

COMMENT: How do toddlers end up in gorilla cages? Probably the same way they end up behind cars in driveways.

Days after a young boy fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo - prompting the zoo's decision to shoot and kill a 17-year-old gorilla -- archived video has emerged showing a similar incident 20 years ago, with a very different outcome. Source: WGN-TV

They've said it before and it looks like they'll have to say it again - don't get too close to the animals.

For the research, the scientists studied sparrows on the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel for a dozen years.

A one-footed penguin at Christchurch Antarctic Centre named Bagpipes has been fitted with a prototype 3D-printed foot after losing his own to a fishing line.

An eight-week-old puppy dumped on the side of a road has been found screaming for help inside a banana box in Masterton.

Captive gorillas, conservationists say, act like an insurance policy in case we "ruin the planet".

The parents of a Kiwi woman who was killed by a crocodile have arrived in Queensland to help with the search for her body.

Former president of Wanganui Federated Farmers says dairy farming is responsible for 80 per cent of the degradation of New Zealand waterways.

The parents of the boy who fell into a gorilla exhibit have been threatened, as records show the zoo was previously warned over a security breach.

A video shows the 1-year-old Auckland Zoo-born calf Zuri jump out of the custom-made box in which she was transported by road to Wellington yesterday, and do a small skid, before coming to a halt at her new home. Source: Facebook / Auckland Zoo

A woman has described her implants as "airbags" after being attacked by a kangaroo.

Zuri the giraffe has arrived in windy Wellington; ready to settle into her new home at the local zoo.

The mother of the boy who fell into the gorilla enclosure at a zoo has blasted those who called her out on social media as being neglectful.

An adorable baby elephant had to be rescued after it fell down an uncovered well in Sri Lanka.

A woman who is appealing her conviction over a horse's death has her sentence suspended pending the outcome.

We joked it was just our luck that after hiking through Brisbane's eucalypt woodland for an hour the only wild koala we saw was in the car park.

There is a big road trip ahead for a giraffe travelling down the North Island today.

It was hard to narrow this list down when there's thousands and thousands to choose from but we've rounded up some of our top picks for your time-wasting pleasure.

Zoo keepers shot and killed a 17-year-old gorilla that grabbed a four-year-old boy who fell into its enclosure.

Canuck, as the bird is known in Vancouver, intervened in the aftermath of a tense police shootout, probably just for fun.

Meet Frederik The Great, a Friesian stallion whose striking features have seen him dubbed "the world's most handsome horse".

The 2-year-old is thought to have survived by licking condensation off the well's brick walls and eating insects in mud at the bottom.

It's every man's worst nightmare.