An off-duty officer fishing near Corry, Pennsylvania thought he saw a bear cub in the brush. It was a young bald eagle who had fallen from her nest. After more than four months at Tamarack Wildlife Center, Ursa was released at Hartstown Marsh and circled the crowd five times.
Tillie’s owners surrendered her to a Philadelphia shelter and asked for euthanasia, saying she was old, not eating and falling over. Then she walked into the Pennsylvania SPCA’s hospital wagging her tail, and a New Jersey couple who love senior dogs took her home.
At a packed pep rally at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania, senior Keny Cedanio Ramirez was named homecoming king. When he saw his friend and fellow nominee Axton Kuhla, who has Down syndrome, start to cry, he placed his crown and sash on Axton’s head. The video went viral.
A dehydrated 6-gram bat hung 12 feet up on a downtown Lancaster porch for two days. Raven Ridge Wildlife Center found she was a critically endangered northern long-eared bat, and specialists nursed her back until she flew free.