Animal antics

Raccoon stows away from US to Belarus in shipped car

‘Yishun spirit’: Residents rally together to rescue kitten trapped in drain pipe

A group of at least five people rescued a kitten trapped in a drain in Yishun.

‘Buck looking for bucks’: Deer rescued from US bank after triggering robbery alarm

After a pursuit that is more Bambi on ice than The Deer Hunter, the police officers eventually subdued the buck.

Canine prodigies can develop vocabularies like toddlers

Basket (left) and Raffy, both border collies, know the names of many toys.

Another horse getaway: Pony captured after making short-lived escape from shrine near Tokyo

A man spotted the horse galloping along a road in Kanagawa’s Hiratsuka and made an emergency call at around 4.15pm local time.

Video of runaway carriage horse in Manhattan fuels debate over a proposed ban

Videos showed the horse dashing through the intersection and its carriage sideswiping a taxi.

See who’s the boss: 18kg deer squares off with 1.7-tonne rhino at Poland zoo

A deer named Daddy Munchkin squares off with Marushka, the rhino, in this screengrab off a video posted by the Wroclaw Zoo in Poland.

Scientists reveal what drives homosexual behaviour in primates

The same-sex behaviour among animals was so widespread indicates it has a "deep evolutionary root", the study said.

Fowl play detected: Chicken becomes Singapore’s latest football sensation

The video has captivated over 118,000 viewers on TikTok.

50 sheep go on baa-zarre adventure through German supermarket, before ewe-turning and leaving

A supermarket representative said that the sheep stayed “exclusively in the checkout area of the store”.

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