Animals

A 78-year-old man on the island of Lesvos was arrested on Tuesday and charged with shooting and killing a stray dog in front of children.

Within the scope of a social responsibility project for animals living in shelters in the country's eastern provinces where the temperature has dropped below zero, volunteers have delivered 40.6 tons of food to animal shelters in Kars, Ardahan, Erzurum and Ağrı.

Fishermen in the Aegean province of İzmir have caught a basking shark, which is 10 meters long and weighs 2 tons, while experts have criticized the hunting of this shark species, as it is in danger of extinction.

Fishermen threw nets into the sea to fish at night in the Urla district. In the morning, fishermen saw a 10-meter-long basking shark in their nets.

Fish that have lost food due to mass coral bleaching are getting into more unnecessary fights, causing them to expend precious energy and potentially threatening their survival, new research said on Jan 3.

With the future of the world's coral reefs threatened by climate change, a team of researchers studied how a mass bleaching event affected 38 species of butterflyfish.

Three stray dogs have fed 52 unmothered puppies in an animal shelter in the eastern province of Erzurum.

Three dogs named "Süslü," "Yumak," "Susam" who nurse the abandoned dogs brought to the shelter and 52 puppies became the center of attention of the visitors of a shelter in Erzurum.

Animal owners, who passed Dec. 31, 2022, the last day for the microchipping process, have started to leave their pets on the street in order not to be fined as they have still not registered them in the tracking system.

Nearly 1,600 bats found a temporary home this week in the attic of a Houston Humane Society director, but it wasn't because they made it their roost.

It was a temporary recovery space for the flying mammals after they lost their grip and plunged to the pavement after going into hypothermic shock during the city's recent cold snap.

“I was quite surprised,” he added. “It’s not something you see every day on a sheep farm”

A total of 267 pairs of white stork nested in Slovenia this year, which is the highest number since 1999, when the Bird Watching Association started keeping record. The number of storks has been rising in all Slovenia’s regions bar the Prekmurje region in the north-east, which has traditionally been home to stork.

Nearly 400,000 pets from across the country were registered on a pet-tracking system called "PETVET" since the beginning of last year, according to a report by the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry.

According to a ministry report released recently, 162,075 cats, 231,685 dogs and 11 weasels were registered to the system since Jan. 1, 2021.