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Elephant escapes from circus and kills 65-year-old man in Buchen, Germany

Imogen Calderwood
Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:57 UTC
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Elephant attack: The 65-year-old man was killed when the African elephant (not the elephant pictured) escaped from a nearby circus in the town of Buchen and attacked him in the early hours of this morning

A 65-year-old man has been killed by an escaped circus elephant in Germany.

The man was taking his regular early morning stroll in some woods near the southwest town of Buchen.

The African elephant is believed to have attacked him shortly after 3am GMT, after escaping from a nearby circus.

A Heidelberg police spokesperson Yvonne Schmierer did not reveal what he injuries he received during the attack.

The 34-year-old female elephant, named 'Baby', has been captured and returned to the circus.

Police are investigating how the elephant was let out of its enclosure, and why it acted so aggressively towards the man.
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Dead fin whale seen off New Jersey coast

Dan Radel
app.com
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:28 UTC
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© Courtesy of Bill Lovgren
A dead Finwhale seen here floating on Wednesday about 18 miles from the Manasquan Inlet.
A pair of Point Pleasant Beach commercial fishermen working about 18 miles east of the Manasquan Inlet spotted a dead 40-foot whale floating on the surface.

"I saw it on the horizon. We were making a tow at the time for flounders," said Capt. Dennis Lovgren of the 78-foot dragger Kailey Ann. "It was very white in color but there wasn't much deterioration to the body."

Bob Schoelkopf, executive director of the Marine Mammals Stranding Center in Brigantine, identified the whale through photos as a fin whale, which is an endangered species.
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Dead humpback whale found on shore of Mount Desert Island, Maine

Bill Trotter
Bangor Daily News
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:17 UTC
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© Allied Whale
A dead humpback whale identified by researchers as Spinnaker floats off Great Head on Mount Desert Island on Thursday.
Spinnaker, a humpback whale who cheated death a few times by becoming entangled in and then freed from ropes floating in the ocean, has run out of luck.

The body of the 40-foot-long female whale washed up Thursday on the shore of Mount Desert Island, a researcher with Allied Whale said Friday.

Spinnaker was 11 years old.

Rosemary Seton, research associate and marine mammal stranding coordinator for Allied Whales, which is affiliated with College of the Atlantic, confirmed Friday that the dead whale is Spinnaker. She said she and other Allied Whale staffers were contacted Thursday about the whale by officials at Acadia National Park and then went to Great Head in the park, where the whale was floating against the rocky shore, to see if they could identify the animal.
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Dog bites increase in Washington D.C. area

Scott MacFarlane
nbcwashington.com
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:40 UTC
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Pit bull terrier
A fast-rising number of people in the Washington, D.C.-area are suffering dog bites or encountering illegally owned pit bulls, according to a yearlong investigation by the News4 I-Team.

The increases, which are sharp and sudden, are partly the result of neglectful owners or people who fail to follow local animal control laws, the I-Team learned in a series of reviews of animal control reports and interviews with animal control officers.

D.C. Department of Health reports, obtained and reviewed by the I-Team, show the number of dog bite incidents in the city has jumped more than 100 percent since 2007. That increase, from 214 bites in 2007 to 457 bites in 2013, is raising alarm among some city residents.
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Great white shark bites boat in New Zealand waters


6abc.com
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:02 UTC
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Shark attack
A great white shark took a bite at a fishing boat's engine in an encounter that left three fishermen in awe.

Three boat mates Jack Lucas, Chris Pom and Adam Ellington were jigging for kingfish in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf when a small great white approached their boat. The shark began circling their boat and then attempted to take a bite out of their boat engine.

"You could feel it was going to take the motor off the boat or try to jump in," said Lucas.

The fisherman believe the shark was probably interested in the kingfish on board the boat. After biting the engine, the shark stayed close to the boat for another half hour before finally swimming away.

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Wildfire in drought-parched California threatens small remote town

Alex Dobuzinskis
news.yahoo.com
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 15:46 UTC
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© U.S. Forest Service
A lightning-sparked wildfire has grown to nearly 1,000 acres
An out-of-control wildfire raging through a Northern California forest as the state battles a devastating drought has forced authorities to warn about 250 people to evacuate or prepare to leave their homes in a remote town, officials said on Friday.

The fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest follows an outbreak of lightning-sparked blazes in neighboring Oregon that prompted authorities to warn residents that drought and low mountain snowpack could lead to a destructive fire season.

California's so-called Saddle Fire has charred at least 880 acres (360 hectares) since a lightning strike sparked it on Tuesday, officials said.
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Thousands of tuna crabs invade San Diego beaches

Abby Benn
abcnews.go.com
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:35 UTC
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© KGTV

Thousands of tuna crabs washed up on a California beach.
Thousands of tuna crabs have invaded the beaches of San Diego Bay.

The thumb-sized crustaceans started washing ashore further up the California coast earlier this year, but turned up this week in San Diego in unusually larger numbers, officials said.

They've washed ashore periodically over the years because of any number of natural effects, but research scientist Michael Shane of the Hubbs SeaWorld Research Institute in San Diego cited El Nino as the phenomenon that might have pushed the crabs up from their normal habitat far offshore.

The result is certain death and nothing can be done to save the crabs.
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Cloud Precipitation

Two injured by floods and dozens of cars swept away in Ankara, Turkey

Tahsin Güner
dha.com.tr
Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:03 UTC
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© AA
Flooding in Ankara
Two people were injured and dozens of cars were damaged in flooding after heavy rain on the evening of June 11 in Turkey's capital Ankara.

Boğaziçi Neşet Ertaş Street, one of the main thoroughfares in Ankara's Mamak district, was flooded and daily life in the capital was paralyzed by the heavy rain.

Two people were reportedly injured, while around 100 cars were swept away and damaged. Municipal workers and locals tried to rescue the cars stuck in flood.

The Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM) on June 11 said heavy rainfall was expected in central Turkey, including Ankara, and issued severe warnings about the inclement conditions.

"Necessary measures should be taken for any sort of negative weather conditions," it said.

The Ankara flooding came less than a week after heavy rain waters flooded the Fidyekızık neighborhood of the western province of Bursa as voting during the parliamentary election was underway on June 7. The flooding caused the collapse of an outer wall of a school compound that was used as a polling station, trapping people who were responsible for the ballot boxes.

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Bizarro Earth

Lightning strike sparks wildfire near San Francisco, California

Alex Dobuzinskis
Reuters
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:40 UTC
Saddle fire, northern california wildfire
© Jennifer Lance
Saddle Fire Trinity County
An out-of-control wildfire raging through a Northern California forest as the state battles a devastating drought has forced authorities to warn about 250 people to evacuate or prepare to leave their homes in a remote town, officials said on Friday.

The fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest follows an outbreak of lightning-sparked blazes in neighboring Oregon that prompted authorities to warn residents that drought and low mountain snowpack could lead to a destructive fire season.

California's so-called Saddle Fire has charred at least 880 acres (360 hectares) since a lightning strike sparked it on Tuesday, officials said.

The flames are tearing through forest land, much of it in areas scorched by a 2004 blaze that has left dead and downed trees on the ground which could provide ample fuel for the latest wildfire, said Shasta-Trinity National Forest spokeswoman Andrea Capps.
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Black Cat

One dog recovering, another dead following two cougar attacks in Maple Ridge, Canada

Eric Zimmer
Maple Ridge Times
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:30 UTC
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© Troy Landreville
Tula cuddled with her owner Andrew Dodge while at the same time showing the puncture marks on her shaved neck, the result of a bite from a cougar that nearly took the Maple Ridge dog’s life.
One dog is injured and another dead after two separate cougar attacks in Maple Ridge this week.

The first incident happened at a popular Maple Ridge hiking area Sunday evening.

According to Andrew Dodge, he was hiking with his dog Tula - a three-year-old shepherd-husky-cross - in the Malcolm Knapp UBC Research Forest reserve, between Mike Lake and the Incline Trail, next to Golden Ears Provincial Park, when Tula ran ahead of him. All of a sudden, Dodge "heard a big fight and lots of yelping."

Running as quickly as he could in the direction of the sound, and shouting Tula's name, Dodge managed to find her coming out of the trees "very distressed" and hurt.

"She took off back down the trail and I ran after her until we reached the car park at Mike Lake," he said.

It was there that Dodge noticed Tula "had been bleeding in the neck area."

"She was very weak but made it back to the car where I took her to the emergency animal hospital in Langley."
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