The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is celebrating a conservation milestone, the facility is ...

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A litter of four cheetah cubs was born on the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Front Royal, Virginia, campus in October.

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Supermodel Gisele Bündchen and her partner, Joaquim Valente, are now parents. Get to know their history and who he is.

A Kenyan family has told the BBC how a cheetah cub they adopted after finding it lying next to its dead mother became almost like one of their children. However, their neighbours in the northern Wajir ...

Prenuptial agreements increasingly include pet custody, giving rise to so-called "pet-nuptials." A 2025 Kinship study found 3 in 5 Americans would seek pet custody after breakup. “Pets are a huge deal ...

When Bishara Abdinoor saw her teenage son returning home one evening in April 2023 carrying a baby cheetah, she was terrified. The boy had spent the whole day grazing cattle within their Kursi Village ...

Cats can, sometimes, especially love kids. They like things they can snuggle, and a baby really works for that. The relationship might get a little rocky when the baby starts going through their ...

In Nairobi, Kenya, eleven cheetah cubs have been rescued from the illegal trade in Somaliland to wind up becoming exotic pets. Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, has become a popular locale ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Eleven cheetah cubs were rescued from illegal trade in Somaliland in what a conservationist described on Thursday as “one of the largest confiscations of the species.” European ...