ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Police are searching for whoever cut locks and fencing on exhibits at a New Mexico zoo, allowing four animals, including a bobcat, to escape before they were quickly found nearby.

Those aren't just big cats playing in a suburban Des Moines yard. West Des Moines resident Mason Adams captured video of a family of bobcats playing near Fuller Road and South 19th Street on Sunday.

We are not too formal here on Mt. Hoo, so we just call him Bob. It seems like an appropriate name for a raccoon who has no tail. Bob the Raccoon, not to be confused with a bobcat, has been missing for ...

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THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH IS INVESTIGATING SEVERAL CASES OF RABIES IN THE UPSTATE. FIRST, IN PICKENS COUNTY, A RACCOON TESTED POSITIVE FOR RABIES. IT WAS FOUND NEAR MOUNT CREEK ...

Many Kansans think this state has too many furbearing predators — particularly raccoons, said Matt Peek. Peek, a wildlife biologist for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, said he often hears ...