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Attention

Elephant tramples man to death in India


The Hindu
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:08 UTC
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A 52-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant at Pathiri South forest under the Chethalayath range of the South Wayanad Forest Division on Tuesday night.

The deceased was identified as Joy, from Thadathil at Karyampathi, near Pulpally.

Range officer P. Ranjithkumar said a herd of elephants chased Joy and his friend Chandran of Karyampathi tribal colony when they were collecting firewood from the forest. While Joy was trampled to death by an elephant, Chandran managed to escape.

The body was found in a search by forest officials and villagers on Wednesday.

Joy is survived by wife Lilly and two children.
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Ladybug

Millions of ladybirds invade Romanian town

David Rogers
Daily Mirror, UK
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:43 UTC
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A wing and a nightmare: Residents have resorted to sweeping the bugs up with brooms
Millions on the insects settled on the town overnight, with experts blaming a rise in the number of greenflies - ladybird's favourite food

This creepy footage of a plague of ladybirds swarming through a town is guaranteed to make your skin crawl.

Millions of the winged insects settled on the town of Lipova, in western Romania, overnight.

Residents have had to seal up their homes to stop swarms of the bugs taking them over.

And despite attempts by town hall officials to control the invasion with pesticides, the determined bugs - members of the beetle family - keep coming in waves.

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Attention

Riddle of 4 cetacean deaths in 2 weeks on Almería coast, Spain

Graham Allen-Rawlings
Costa Almeria News
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:46 UTC
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Marine life volunteers inspecting the dead fin whale that was found offshore near Retamar last week
The recent deaths of two dolphins and two whales on the Almería coast have raised questions about their possible causes, as they came just days after naval exercises were carried out in the same area.

The first of the strandings was that of a Pilot whale in Balerma, El Ejido, the last week of October, followed by the discovery of a decomposed dolphin washed up on a beach in Cuevas del Almanzora.

The body of a 20-metre long Fin whale was spotted in the waters off Retamar a few days later and then a Striped dolphin was found stranded on a remote beach in Cabo de Gata. The latter died only moments after the arrival on the scene of members of Equinac, the non-governmental organization responsible for marine animals in the province.

CA news spoke to Alexander Sánchez, biologist with Equinac. He said naval exercises in the area "have been known to cause harm to cetaceans in the past" in reference to four Cuvier's beaked whales that were washed ashore in 2006 on the beaches of Garrucha, Mojacar and Villaricos.
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Attention

2-year-old boy mauled to death and eaten by pig after crawling into its pen, China


singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:22 UTC
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A toddler in China was mauled to death and partially eaten by a pig after crawling into the animal's pen.

The two-year-old Wei Tsao, known affectionately as Keke, was playing in the garden of his parents' house, in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, when they decided to step away for a moment.

The toddler then crawled into the pig pen where the protective sow mauled him to death in an attempt to protect her newborn piglets.
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Attention

Flashback Wild boar shot after midnight attack on family, China


globaltimes.cn
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:26 UTC
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© hsw.cnA wild boar lies dead after police in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province were forced to shoot it after the animal attacked a family in their home.
It took police seven shots to kill a wild boar that rushed into a home and attacked a villager in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province on January 12.

Area police found the 200-kilogram boar trapped in the home of a Donghe village family where it had rushed in and attacked a young man.

The 18-year-old victim was brought to a local hospital for a bite wound on his right thigh.

Authorities eventually lured the feral pig outside and fired seven times before killing it. "I and two other officers climbed on the roof for a better shot," said Yang Zhanmin, deputy chief of Xunyi county police. "The boar began thrashing around after the first two shots to its head, and we fired five more times to make sure it wouldn't injure anyone," said Yang.

According to Fu Jie, father of the victim, the boar fell into his family's courtyard while scavenging for food on one of the compound roofs at around 1 am on January 12.

Comment: 2014 has seen quite a lot of demented behaviour by wild boar across the planet, see the reports below -

More odd animal behaviour: Wild boar smashes into German hardware store

6 people attacked and bitten by a wild boar in Tokyo

At least six people attacked and injured by a group of wild boar in India

Wild boar and pig attacks in Vietnam - 2 in hospital in same week

Wild boar attacks man in Inarajan, Guam

Wild boar savagely attacks man in Imphal, India

Elderly woman viciously attacked by a wild boar in Malaysia

Man injured in wild boar attack in India with other attacks reported

Woman killed by wild boar in rare attack, Vietnam

TV cameraman viciously attacked by a wild boar on Japanese street

Pack of wild boar attack woman in suburb of Stockholm, Sweden

Wild boar fed up with being hunted - charges hunters in France

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Cloud Precipitation

Nine provinces in Thailand experience flooding and heavy rainfall

Richard Davies
floodlist.com
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:43 UTC
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© The Nation Thailand
The northeast monsoon has left at least 9 provinces in southern Thailand battling heavy rain and floods, as the country's Interior Minister warns there could be more to come.

Trang Province

Trang province in southern Thailand has been one of the worst affected areas after persistent heavy rain over the last 4 days caused flash floods across several southern provinces.

Around 1,000 villagers in Trang have been evacuated since the flooding began. Houses and farmland have been damaged. The flood water level was almost two meters high, according to NNT.
Homes flooded in Trang; troops help the trapped http://t.co/GTT2Iw9Glf #TheNation pic.twitter.com/dU73e3vpTn

- The Nation Thailand (@nationnews) November 11, 2014
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Wolf

Child expected to survive after mauling by family dog in Elmore County, Alabama

Hunter Robinson
WSFA.com
Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:19 UTC
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A 3-year-old boy suffered severe facial injuries after being attacked Wednesday afternoon by a pit bull in the Titus community of Elmore County. Sheriff Bill Franklin said the dog was owned by the boy's family and was on a chain in the yard when the child was mauled.

"The dog was actually owned by the father's brother from what we understand. The account we got was the animal takes part in hunting hogs," Sheriff Franklin said.

The child reportedly wandered out of the house while his father was in the bathroom, and got within reach of the dog. That is when the dog attacked the child, authorities say. Once the father was aware of what happened, he called 911, picked the child up, and took him near the roadway where they waited on emergency personnel to arrive. The child was then taken by medical helicopter to Children's Hospital in Birmingham.
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Wolf

Pet dog attacks, mauls baby and mother in Bremerton, Washington


The Register-Guard
Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:01 UTC
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A pet dog mauled a 10-month-old boy and bit his mother on her hands and arms when she went to help him Tuesday evening at a home in Bremerton.Fire department emergency responders say the boy was alone in a room playing with a broom when the family dog attacked.

The Kitsap Sun reports the woman and her son were transported to Harrison Medical Center.Firefighter Troy Reynolds said the boy suffered substantial facial injuries.The dog was described as a medium-sized boxer mix.

Source: Kitsap Sun
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Cloud Lightning

Thundersnow starts winter with a bang, thanks to glorious lake-effect storm

Eric Holthaus
Salon
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 04:39 UTC
Earlier this afternoon, Chris Zimmer of Mentor, Ohio, was in the right place at the right time to capture one of the rarest, most intense winter weather phenomena there is: thundersnow. Watch, and be amazed:


Thundersnow happens only in particularly powerful snowstorms with especially strong updrafts. The sound of thunder in thundersnow is dampened, too, by all the snowflakes - you've got to be nearly underneath it to hear it.

Comment: With weather getting more severe in more locations, this may become a common phenomenon

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Igloo

Global warming, where art thou? A mini ice age is what we're in store for

Dr. Sircus
drsircus.com
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:25 UTC
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Parts of the lower 48 states could see temperatures between 20 and 40 degrees below average, the National Weather Service said Sunday. In the Wall Street Journal, we read that global warming has taken a long holiday or what officials call warming pause. "Well, the pause has now lasted for 16, 19 or 26 years - depending on whether you choose the surface temperature record or one of two satellite records of the lower atmosphere. That's according to a new statistical calculation by Ross McKitrick, a professor of economics at the University of Guelph in Canada."

The first scenes of the next mini ice age is all about us at the beginning of November. Soon most in the northern hemisphere are going to have to throw out the idea of having a fall at all. Winter is going to run rampage earlier and earlier each year. Winter is going to annihilate the fall. It already has.

'Earliest and deepest snowfalls in more than 100 years in Southeastern U.S.' and lots of snow combined with record low temperatures. Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Georgia all saw unexpected snow, in some places almost two feet deep. According to the Climatology Office in South Carolina, Concord, South Carolina has broken a 125-year record for the earliest snow seen. In addition, Columbia, South Carolina's capital broke a 129-year record.

Global warming is a dead idea. In fact, that is all it ever was, and unsubstantiated idea. About 14.1 million square kilometers of snow blanketed Siberia at the end of October, the second most in records going back to 1967, according to Rutgers University's Global Snow Lab. The record was in 1976, which broke a streak of mild winters in the eastern U.S. In addition, the speed at which snow has covered the region is the fastest since at least 1998.

Comment: SOTT has been saying it for years. Global cooling is the real threat:

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