Animals

Sad and unexpected news to pass along regarding a beloved elephant in Missouri. The St. Louis Zoo has shared the word that one of its elephants has suddenly passed away.

Animal control officers are searching Decatur in hopes of finding a serval that got loose from someone's apartment.

A family in Mexico is being commended for their patience and resilience after they waited out a bear that helped itself to their food.

You have likely heard of West Nile virus in mosquitos and sometimes people. What you might not hear very often is West Nile virus in people, but that's exactly what's been discovered in one Oregon County, Missouri horse.

Sometimes, a bear just has to dance.

Wait, are those wrinkles on the bear's backside?

The hottest bear of the summer just dropped.

So a funny thing happened to a flying squirrel in Alton, Missouri today. Well, maybe funny isn't the right word, but we can all laugh about it now because the squirrel is going to be fine. The little critter found himself in quite a predicament stuck in a Missouri family's birdhouse.

This is hard to watch, but there's good news that came out of a desperate situation involving 4 severely starved horses who were rescued from a rural Missouri farm this week.

I would argue this is the most popular eagle in Missouri if not America right now. He's the eagle who treated a rock like his baby and now he has become a really great stepdad - for real.