Koko's Journey
A little dog vanished from Texas and turned up in New Jersey, nearly two years later and 1,500 miles from home.
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Pesto the Giant Penguin
A king penguin chick was born weighing less than a cup of flour, and grew to outweigh both of his parents.
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Olive the Runaway Cow
When a pregnant cow escaped a New York dairy farm and disappeared into the woods, no one expected what came next.
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Francine the Lowe's Cat
She had worked at the same Lowe's for nine years. Then she climbed into a truck and became the most wanted cat in Virginia.
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Poppy and Angus
A 93-year-old man takes his 15-year-old cat for a walk every day, and they have the whole retirement village to themselves.
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Chamilandu the Elephant
Poachers took her mother when she was 18 months old. Twenty years later, she showed her own calf how to stand.
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Xiao Mao
She survived three weeks inside a shipping container crossing 8,000 miles of ocean, and eventually started chirping when called.
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Yoda the Thousand-Day Dog
He waited at the shelter for nearly three years. Then someone came through the door who was his.
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Mirage and Her Rescue Pilot
A pilot flew 300 animals out of the Los Angeles wildfires. One of them never left.
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Gertjie and Skaap
A baby elephant was found crying beside his mother. A sheep named Skaap decided he was not going to be alone.
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Moo Deng
A tiny pink hippo was born in a Thai zoo, bounced her way to global fame, and became the most talked-about animal of 2024.
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Peggy the Dogpool
A pug-mix with a face only a casting director could love landed a role in one of the biggest movies of 2024.
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Te Fiti and Her Puppies
A mama dog survived seven tornadoes in Northwest Arkansas with four newborn puppies hidden beneath a storage shed.
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Jonathan the Tortoise
He was already 50 years old when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He is still alive today.
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Freya the Cheetah
An 11-month-old cheetah cub at the Smithsonian had a spine quietly twisting out of shape. Her keepers caught it before it stole her future.
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The Cape Cod Dolphins
On a June morning in 2024, 146 dolphins beached themselves in the mud flats of Cape Cod. What happened next took hundreds of strangers and most of the day.
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Frannie's Fight
She weighed 125 pounds and couldn't stand up. A vet student said yes when everyone else said no.
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The Cockatoos of Sydney
They figured out how to turn on the drinking fountains. Then they taught each other.
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The Humpback's Journey
A humpback whale traveled more than 8,100 miles across three ocean basins. Researchers are still trying to understand why.
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Samson the Lamb
A ewe arrived at a New York sanctuary and no one knew she was pregnant. Then Samson was born.
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Narwhal the Puppy
A puppy born with an extra tail growing from his forehead made the whole world stop and stare in November 2019.
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Arthur the Dog
A stray dog covered in mud showed up at an adventure race in the Ecuadorian jungle and ran 430 miles to stay with the team that fed him.
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Freya the Walrus
A 1,300-pound Arctic walrus turned up in Norwegian waters and spent a summer climbing into boats, meeting crowds, and baffling scientists.
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Tarra and Bella
An elephant and a stray dog met at a Tennessee sanctuary and spent years inseparable. When Bella was hurt, Tarra waited outside every day until she could come back.
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Pigcasso
A pig rescued from a slaughterhouse in South Africa picked up a paintbrush and never stopped.
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Ndakasi
A mountain gorilla orphaned by poachers grew up in the arms of a ranger who never let go.
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Grizzly 399
For nearly 30 years, the most famous bear in the world walked the same valley and raised cub after cub after cub.
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Winter the Dolphin
She lost her tail to a crab trap at two months old. What happened next took two years, a team of prosthetists, and a polymer that didn't exist yet.
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The Lions of Tsavo
In 1898, two lions in Kenya halted the construction of a railroad bridge and became the most studied wild animals in history.
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Bua Noi
For more than thirty years, a chimpanzee named Bua Noi has lived on the rooftop of a shopping mall in Bangkok. She is still there.
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Flaco the Owl
A Eurasian eagle-owl spent 13 years in a zoo enclosure, then spent his last year proving everyone wrong.
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Inky the Octopus
He was living in a tank at a New Zealand aquarium. Then one night, he wasn't.
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Christian the Lion
Two young men bought a lion cub at a London department store. A year after releasing him into the wild, they went back. He remembered.
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Scarlett the Cat
A stray cat in Brooklyn made five trips into a burning building. She was blind by the last one. All five kittens survived.
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Binti Jua
A gorilla at Brookfield Zoo carried an unconscious child to safety. She knew exactly where the door was.
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Knut the Polar Bear
A polar bear cub born in Berlin was rejected by his mother and kept alive by one zookeeper who refused to give up on him.
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Cher Ami
She was the last pigeon they had. She was shot out of the sky. She delivered the message anyway.
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Mzee and Owen
A baby hippo lost everything in the tsunami. He found a 130-year-old tortoise and would not leave his side.
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Tokitae
She was four years old when they took her from Penn Cove. She never saw the ocean again. People never stopped trying to bring her home.
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Jack the Baboon
In the 1880s, a baboon named Jack ran the signal levers at a South African railway junction. He never made a single error.
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Murphy the Eagle
A bald eagle who could not fly sat on a rock he thought was an egg, and became the best dad in the world.
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Punch the Monkey
A baby macaque in Japan was abandoned the day after he was born. A stuffed orangutan and a team of zookeepers made sure he was not alone for long.
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