Animals

Latin music queen Shakira is known for her song 'Hips Don't Lie', but the singer is making headlines for other reasons now after being attacked and robbed - by a couple of swines.

Two wild boars took… Audio

Four new species of lizard have been confirmed for Aotearoa.

The findings are in a report from the Department of Conservation - which reassesses the threat status of 135 reptiles.

Samantha Gee… Audio

Giant rats have been invading homes across the UK over the past year, and more and more of them have been sneaking into buildings through the toilet.

The infestation began in the country's first… Audio

While humans are still waiting for their trims and regrowth touchups, in alert level three Auckland pet groomers are back in action.

Five weeks in level 4 has left groomers with a backlog of pooches… Video, Audio

Kea can parrot their real life behaviour in the virtual world, a new study has found.

University of Auckland researchers trained a group of kea to use a touchscreen laptop with their tongues.

Lead… Audio

Twelve brown bears in Alaska are getting their claws out, as they go head-to-head to see who will take home the title of the Fattest Bear.

But don't worry, there's no fat-shaming here.

The "Fat Bear… Audio

NZ Top Dog competition organisers say it's been the ulti-MUTTcompetition. 

The competition proved a welcome lockdown distraction, a leash of life, for the organisers at Frog Recruitment in Auckland… Audio

Conservation groups are joining forces to make Farewell Spit at the top of the South Island predator free.  

The 30 kilometre sandspit is home for thousands of endangered shorebirds. 

An ambitious… Audio

An Australian study recently published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution has shown some animals' body shapes are adapting and changing to cope with climate change. Sara Ryding of Deakin… Audio

Move over bees - it turns out moths also have a role to play in pollination.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, New Zealand scientists have used a fluorescent pollen-tracker powder in the lab to test… Audio

A bar-tailed Godwit that's just touched down on the Firth of Thames has been confimed as having made the longest flight by a landbird ever recorded. The female, called 4BYWW, travelled non-stop from… Audio

Lockdowns offer lessons for how we can make our urban spaces more attractive for birds.  Audio

Conservation biologist Dr Andrew Digby joins Jesse to talk about the upcoming kākāpō breeding season. Audio

There's an influx of wild boars on to roam in Rome.

It hasn't gone down well with locals, who say it's a sign the Italian capital is going to the dogs, or the hogs at least.

Rome correspondent Seema… Audio

In human couples getting cold feet often is not the best sign, but not for this couple of Gentoo penguins - Buster and 99 - who are celebrating their 24th anniversary at Kelly Tarlton's.

Contrary to… Video, Audio

Orca expert Dr Ingrid Visser is defending the work done in an ultimately futile attempt to save Toa the baby orca.

It has been revealed the Conservation Department was worried about the public… Audio

The Department of Conservation was told by overseas experts it should euthanise the orca calf, Toa, just days after it became stranded on the rocks in Plimmerton.

But the department instead looked… Audio

The Department of Conservation spent $130,000 looking after Toa, the orphaned Orca.

It was abandoned by its pod north of Wellington in July, and was cared for by the department and volunteers for 12… Audio

A unique conservation project is under way in Dublin aimed at serving two purposes - to prevent the spread of wildfires and to preserve the critically-endangered Old Irish Goats.

Dozens of the… Audio

Waka Kotahi contractors have been using builder's foam to fill in potential bat roosts on the route of the proposed Mt Messenger bypass in Taranaki.

The revelation comes a month after the agency said… Audio