Animals

Connecticut is home to many famous actors — including four-legged ones. They have names like Sandy from the show "Annie" and Bruiser from the musical "Legally Blonde." Most are rescues from animal shelters. Their trainer is Bill Berloni, who's helped them become showbiz stars.

Nest-building isn’t just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building traditions.

One man spends his summers making sure viewers across the world can watch two pairs of loons on Lake Winnipesaukee as they mate, lay eggs and tend to their nests.

On a recent Saturday, a Middlebury filmmaker tried to pull off a rather remarkable — or should we say re-BARK-able — stunt. To launch his latest film Inside the Mind of a Dog on Netflix, Andy Knight Mitchell decided to try to set a Guinness World Record for the most number of dogs to attend a film screening.

In New Boston, Kelly McCutcheon’s 50 sheep are spending the summer landscaping conservation fields.

Dozens of mountain lion sighting reports are filed each year in New Hampshire. Fish and Game officials say none of them have proven the presence of the animal in the state.

This summer, the state of Maine launched a research program to learn more about the whereabouts of North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine. The findings could be critical for the future of the state's lobster industry — and in the race to preserve the critically endangered population.

Great white shark tours have become popular around Cape Cod as more of the largest predator fish are showing up.

Wildlife officials recommend against giving bears food, in order to discourage interactions with humans.

Rescue teams from the New England Aquarium, the Center for Coastal Studies, and the Barnstable harbormaster’s office came together to disentangle a six-foot-long, 400-pound leatherback.