Animals/Pets news & information for Andalucia

ELEPHANTS being born in the middle of Spain's third-largest city is not something that happens every day. In fact, until this month, it had never happened before.

PET PARENTS who get a new fluffy friend from Fuengirola's local shelter will not have to pay for vaccines, microchips, sterilising or compulsory paperwork – even if they take them home months before these are due.

IF YOU'RE aged 65 or over, you're invited on a free trip to Fuengirola's lifelike open-air safari centre, BioParc, on Tuesday (March 29).

Two griffin vultures and two eagle-owls, nursed back to health in the Centre for the Recovery of Threatened Species (C.R.E.A.) in Los Villares, Córdoba, were released back into the wild on Friday.

BRITS who were in Sevilla this week may have wondered if they were hallucinating when they thought they saw the Household Cavalry parading through the southern city's streets – some 1,500 kilometres away from the...

WHALES have made themselves at home off the coast of Catalunya – a total of 222 have been spotted this spring alone, nearly double the number seen in the sea-mammal 'feeding zones' identified by...

A PICTURE of a woman turning up for her Covid vaccine in the Huelva-province village of Lepe has gone viral due to her unusual mode of transport – or rather, a mode that was once very typical, but has not now been...

TAKE your pooch for a stroll and raise money for guide dogs – or if you don't have a woofster of your own, get hiking and just pretend there's an imaginary friend on a leash next to you.

THE first healthy white lion cub to be born in Spain is lively, alert, nicely rounded and full of beans, according to his carers at Mundo Park in Guillena (Sevilla province).

WILDLIFE and travel photographer Alfonso Azaustre has captured a series of close-ups of the 'Granada panther' spotted by numerous witnesses on the loose in the countryside – and his footage shows there is...

A HANDFUL of witnesses swear they have spotted a black panther prowling around the Granada-province town of Ventas de Huelma – despite this predatory feline being native to the jungles of Central and South America.

THE FIRST-EVER white lion outside the wild has been born in Spain, in the MundoPark nature reserve in Guillena (Sevilla province).