KALMTHOUT, Belgium, March 11 (Reuters) - Ostriches are normally territorial and aggressive birds best approached with caution, but at a Belgian animal rescue farm, the hand-reared birds are so gentle ...

Pandas, polar bears and other animals at a Belgian zoo enjoyed some icy treats, as the country faced "exceptionally high" temperatures, while Brussels residents turned to atomizers, fans and ...

Anyone familiar with the European continent knows wild wolves aren’t a common sight, but they still pop up from time to time. Northern Belgium, for example, is just one place where you’d almost never ...

Two African lions that were rescued from a Ukrainian animal sanctuary earlier in March have found a new home at a Belgian animal shelter. Tsar and Jamil, age 1, arrived at the nonprofit Natural Help ...

The number of animals used for biomedical research in Belgium rose by 3.1% year on year to 779,860 in 2007. Most of these experiments were on rodents and rabbits, which made up 92.0% of the total, ...

OUDSBERGEN, Belgium – A Belgian animal shelter has taken in two young lions evacuated from Ukraine, who it says Russian troops had threatened to shoot when they encountered them outside Kyiv. Twin ...

Eurogroup for Animals, the leading voice for animal welfare at European Union level, said the new Belgian law, which now awaits parliamentary approval, will prohibit any use of wild animals in ...