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As sad as it is that 10-month-old chimpanzee Kartik was abandoned, there is a happy ending. Zookeeper Srihari Charan at the Nandankanan Zoological Park in India has "adopted" Kartik, treating him as if he were his own child -- including putting him in a hot pink baby walker. Watch the video and tell us what you think of this relationship in the comments below. ...

Getty Images It's an age-old story: Kids find an adorable kitten, bring it home and plead "Can we keep it? Pleeeease?" But this time, the kitten wasn't just any cat. Children in the Indian village of Bhatvadar brought home a kitten one night last week and played with the fuzzy feline throughout the following day, the Times of India reports. That is, until the kitty growled. "It was only when we heard the cub growling that we realized it was not a kitten, but a leopard," villager Bharat Sakat told the Times of India. Leopards prowl across Africa and Asia, and a unique subspecies is native to the Indian subcontinent, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and ...

Monkeys are an integral part of life in India, where they live in thousands of numbers. Photo: Raveendran, AFP / Getty Images Officials in the Indian state of Punjab are putting an end to all monkey business -- literally. The government has sought permission from the Central Zoo Authority to set up a monkey rehabilitation center to provide medical care and behavior training to violent monkeys. "In addition to veterinary doctors, the center will have experts and it would be a sort of good manners school for the monkeys," a senior official of the Punjab Wildlife Department told The Hindu, India's National Newspaper. The first-ever monkey reform school intends to target monkeys who ...