Paddy Dinham Daily Mail Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:07 UTC
The animal pins him up against the wall and then then sends him flying through the air with an almighty flip of its head
This moody cow decided to take some frustration out on an innocent bystander while it was having a stroll down an alleyway.
The footage, shot in Pakistan, shows a man stood talking on his mobile phone next to a wall.
Wandering the streets of its own accord, the cow is seen heading down the same alleyway, seemingly minding its own business.
However, it clearly takes a disliking to something the man is doing, and pauses behind him.
After a couple of seconds of consideration, the cow instigates its vicious attack by digging its horns into him and catching the man, who has his back turned, completely unawares.
A leopard was thrashed to death after it strayed into Mandawar village in Sohna, 26km south of Gurugram, and injured eight people on Thursday morning. The leopard, a two-and a-half-year-old male, sneaked in around 8am and kept villagers on their toes till noon with the forest department failing to tranquillise it and or capture it with nets.
The first to be attacked was Sundar Bharadwaj, a 46-year-old farmer. "I was tending to my field when the animal attacked me," said Bharadwaj. He noticed the leopard crouching furtively amid tall grass, before it lunged at him. He slipped his arms between its jaws, grabbing them while trying to fend off its deadly bite. During the struggle, he sustained grievous injuries on his shoulder and chest. Villagers later admitted him in Sohna's Civil Hospital.
When Bharadwaj spoke to TOI, he had a blood-soaked sling across his shoulder. According to other villagers, the leopard was first noticed in the morning by two farmers, Sumeet (21) and Rajesh (23), as they were returning from their fields. In panic, the duo raised an alarm. Scared, the leopard leapt into the compound of the Government Primary School, Mandawar. Luckily, the school was closed. "When we approached the big cat in a group, it ran away and hid inside a mound of hay," Desh Raj, a 20-year-old villager, said.
Lauren Steinbrecher fox13now.com Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:10 UTC
Three Millville women are recovering from grisly wounds after being attacked by two dogs Tuesday afternoon.
One of those dogs, a 4-year-old pit bull, was euthanized Wednesday morning, according to her owners.
Sierra Coe credits two Good Samaritans who risked their own safety to help her after the dogs rushed at her and wouldn't back down outside the Millville Post Office.
Laura Ferguson was one of those women.
On Wednesday evening, she sat in her living room with her legs elevated and bandages covering her leg, arm and ankle.
"This one bled a lot," she said, pointing to her knee.
Her arm and leg have deep puncture marks. Her ankle is the worst off, with a gaping hole exposed to the bone.
Sinead Maclaughlin Daily Mail Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:26 UTC
A blood-spattered driveway is a stark reminder of a vicious dog attack that wounded three people, including a police officer.
Not even tasers were enough to subdue the three savage dogs who attacked Diane, 43, and her partner Peter, 48, outside their Penrith home in western Sydney on Wednesday night.
The animal's owner, Kirk Wake, 29, has been charged after failing to keep the dogs locked up, according to 9 News.
Two of the dogs were described as being of American Staffordshire-cross-Pitbull appearance.
An ailing humpback whale that became grounded on a sandbar in a bay was euthanized on Wednesday, three days after rescuers first tried to set it free.
The death of the whale, which weighed between 15 and 20 tons and was about 33 feet long, angered some environmentalists and locals who had watched the rescue effort. One state senator called for a hearing into the failed rescue.
Officials with the Riverhead Foundation of Marine Research and Preservation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration insisted the best chance for the whale's escape was hoping a high tide would allow it to free itself, but that never occurred.
They suggested it was likely the whale may have been ailing and that was the reason it became stranded in Moriches Bay, on eastern Long Island. The shallow bay has rarely been the site of whale visits.
In 2006 biologists studying the only timber rattlesnakes in the state of New Hampshire recorded something alarming: a population crash. The already rare animals - numbering about 40 in total - began dying in unusually large numbers. No more than 20 rattlesnakes survived, and the population remained at that new super-low level five years later.
Many of the snakes showed signs of a severe skin infection on their heads and bodies just before they died. It was an early sign of a deadly fungal disease that is now sweeping through the snakes of eastern North America.
Today at least 30 species are affected. "Snake fungal disease" has been documented in more than 16 US states and in parts of Canada. How worried should we be?
Snake fungal disease generally begins with a relatively mild skin infection, often - but not always - where a snake's skin has been physically damaged.
The snake's immune system kicks into action, but within a few days the skin at the infection site has begun to thicken and die, creating a yellow or brown crust. In some cases this crust breaks off, exposing raw flesh and allowing the fungus to spread.
Sebastian Neuweiler and Joanna Prendergast abc.net.au Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:35 UTC
A man working on a farm in Western Australia has been attacked by what is believed to be a pack of roaming wild dogs
Police have confirmed a man spent a night in hospital after receiving bites to his arms, legs and torso after the dogs attacked him on a property north west of Koorda in the Wheatbelt.
Police said the man was attacked last week by up to six dogs while he was fencing on the property and was taken to the nearby Wyalkatchem Hospital where he was required to stay overnight as a result of the severity of his injuries.
The attack victim has since been discharged from hospital.
The Shire of Koorda is currently investigating the matter to determine whether the dogs were wild, and what to do with them.
Pastoralists and Graziers Association president Tony Seabrook said an attack was inevitable, but the news made his blood run cold.
A dead sperm whale was found on the beach on San Jose Island on Monday, Nov. 21, according to Tony Amos, Port Aransas coordinator with the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network.
No cause of death has been determined, said Amos, who also is director of the Animal Rehabilitation Keep and research fellow with the University of Texas Marine Science Institute. Samples were taken from the whale's body for analysis.
Today (Tuesday, Nov. 22), the 28-foot-long whale's body still is lying in shallow water not far from shore, slightly more than one mile north of the north jetty. It's unclear whether efforts will be made to dispose of the carcass, which weighs many tons, Amos said.
Amos cautioned that folks shouldn't touch or even get close to the whale's body. It could carry diseases, and a wave could push the huge carcass onto someone who gets too close, he said.
In addition, under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, it is against the law to touch sperm whales even after they're dead, Amos said.
Robert Lange of Pictou County snaps a photo of a dolphin that washed up along the shoreline in Big Island, N.S. on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
Another dead dolphin has washed up along the shoreline in Big Island, N.S. - the third in the last four days.
Robert Lange says he was driving home last week when he noticed a pod of dolphins splashing in the Merigomish Harbour.
"The dolphins were swimming very close to shore here and when I stopped and looked closer with the binoculars, there was a pod of maybe a dozen or more swimming very close together," said Lange. "The fins were all out of the water and the tide was very low with the supermoon."
Robert Lange of Pictou County snaps a photo of a dolphin that washed up along the shoreline in Big Island, N.S. on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
One of the animals died that night and another washed ashore the next morning.
The dolphins appear to be trapped by geography. At one end, Merigomish Harbour has a wide opening between Big Island and the Mainland, but it narrows significantly and closes at the other end.
"We assume that these ones were probably chasing a school of fish, and got up here and got out of the channel and into the shallow water and couldn't get back," said Lange.
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