Casting aside his very understandable fears, an everyday hero goes above and beyond the call of duty to rescue a distressed coyote that went and got itself entangled in a barbed wire fence.

Firefighters in Naples, aided by a crew from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, helped a bald eagle untangle itself from a fishing line that had left it dangling from a tree some 70 feet above ground.

Three bear cubs had to be rescued by a New Mexico couple and their ladder after getting stuck inside a dumpster in Ruidoso.