Animals

Missing man found dead in Lipan, Texas after 'mountain lion attack'

Namita Singh
Independent (UK)
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:56 UTC

The Sheriff's office of a county in Texas has said that a 28-year-old man who went missing last week was killed by a mountain lion, even as the wildlife officials said there was no evidence of such an attack.

Christopher Allen Whiteley was reported missing on Thursday after last being seen early Wednesday morning in Lipan, Texas, said the Sheriff's office of Hood County on Saturday.

The investigators found Whiteley's body in a wooded area of rural Texas, which was sent to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy. The preliminary report blamed the death on a "wild animal attack, possibly a mountain lion."

However, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department drew a contradictory conclusion and in a statement to the Sheriff's office said that experts who inspected the scene found no evidence of a "predatory attack by a mountain lion at the location where the victim was found."

There have been no confirmed fatal attacks by mountain lions in the state of Texas, according to the wildlife department.

Six injured in wild boar attack in Odisha, India

New Indian Express
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:49 UTC

A boar

As many as six persons including two woman sweepers were injured in wild boar attack at Swargadwar here on Sunday morning.

Eyewitnesses said Gurubaria Naik along with a team of sweepers were engaged in cleaning the Swargadwar area at around 4.30 am.

Suddenly, a wild boar appeared and attacked two sweepers Urmila and Rohini. The animal ran away when other sweepers raised an alarm. The boar also attacked four persons who had ventured out for morning walk.

They are Amit Pradhan, Jitendra Kumar Jena, Ramesh Samantrai and M Ganaya. All the injured were rushed to the district headquarters hospital. The attending doctor said the injuries were minor and after first aid, the six persons were advised to go home.

Residents said this was the first such attack by a wild animal in the city. Forest officials could not be contacted.

56-year-old man dead following shark attack at Honolua Bay, Hawaii

KITV
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:57 UTC

Maui Memorial Medical Center has confirmed that a 56-year-old man who was surfing at Honolua Bay on Tuesday has died.

The man was reportedly in critical condition after he was bit by a shark in the bay, according to the medical center and passed away Wednesday evening.

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Tuesday, an incident with a shark and recreational surfer was reported at Honolua Bay near where the Maui Pro is being held.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) says a 56-year-old man, from Lahaina was paddling out from the old ramp in the bay. He was taken to the hospital and admitted for surgery. At 1:03 p.m., Maui Health reported that the shark victim is in stable condition.

Comment: Another shark attack (though non-fatal) took place 2 days earlier on December 5 off South Australia with the victim being airlifted to hospital:

A 29-year-old surfer is understood to have escaped a shark after the animal bit him on Sunday afternoon. The attack - by a great white shark - took place in Kangaroo Island waters.

Emergency services were called to D'Estrees Bay about 2.20pm.

The victim swam back to shore where a member of the public assisted him.

An air ambulance met the driver that was taking the surfer to the hospital as they were making their way there.

Of the emergency, South Australia Police said: "The man managed to paddle back to shore and sought help from a member of the public who drove him toward Kingscote.

"Paramedics met the car en route and transported the man the rest of the way to the hospital.

"He was then airlifted to Adelaide for treatment."

Police said the surfer is not believed to be in a life threatening condition.

Signs have been distributed along D'Estrees Bay beach warning beach-goers of its closure.

Swimmers have been urged to avoid the region in wake of the incident.

The attack comes after a man was killed by a shark on the north-west coast of Western Australia.

The tragedy marked the eighth fatal shark attack in Australian beaches this year.

The 55-year-old man is understood to have been had been bodyboarding at Cable Beach in the Kimberley region of Broome.

Swimmers have been urged to avoid the region in wake of the incident.

The attack comes after a man was killed by a shark on the north-west coast of Western Australia.

The tragedy marked the eighth fatal shark attack in Australian beaches this year.

The 55-year-old man is understood to have been had been bodyboarding at Cable Beach in the Kimberley region of Broome.

4 killed, 3 injured in bear attack in Chhattisgarh, India

Ritesh Mishra
Hindustan Times
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 13:21 UTC

Four people, including two women, were killed in a bear attack in Koriya district of Surguja division in Chhattisgarh, officials said on Monday.

The bear attacked the villagers when they were returning from a nearby jungle on Sunday evening after which the district administration, police and forest department launched a rescue operation, which went on till late night.

"A group of local tribals of Angwahi village were returning home after collecting forest produce from the jungle when a bear attacked them. Four of them were killed while some people climbed on trees. We got information and launched a rescue operation inside the jungle. During the rescue operations, four bodies were recovered and the rescue team managed to save a person who climbed a tree. Three others who were injured in the attack were also rescued by the team," Inspector General of Police, Surguja Range, Ratanlal Dangi told HT.

New knowledge of the 'abdominal brain'

Karolinska Institutet
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 20:07 UTC

© Illustration: Mattias Karlén
The KI researchers identified 12 different neuronal subtypes (confetti) in the small intestine of mouse, and discovered that these develop through two embryonic neuron prototypes (sprinkled confetti streams).

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have succeeded in mapping the neuron types comprising the enteric nervous system in the intestine of mice. The study, which is published today in the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience, also describes how the different neurons form during fetal development, a process that follows different principles to brain neurons.

Our approximately seven-metre long gastrointestinal (GI) tract has its own functionally distinct neurons. Since this enteric nervous system (ENS) operates autonomously, it is sometimes referred to as the "second" or "abdominal" brain.

While the ENS controls muscle movement (peristalsis) in the gut and its fluid balance and blood flow, it also communicates with the immune system and microbiome. It therefore has a systemic affect on the body and is thought to be involved in a wide range of diseases. Some 30 percent of the population are estimated to live with permanent gastrointestinal complications.

Using single-cell sequencing, a method that enables scientists to functionally categorise and classify individual cells by determining which genes are active in them, researchers from Karolinska Institutet have now mapped the neurons that make up the mouse ENS.

Whale shark washes up in Bali, Indonesia - 2nd in recent months

Coconuts
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 12:35 UTC

Whale sharks are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

A whale shark washed ashore Candidasa Beach, Karangasem regency and was pronounced dead upon discovery, authorities said, making this the second time in recent months that a member of the species was found in Bali.

The Coastal and Marine Resources Management Center (BPSPL) in Denpasar said that the whale shark was found by local residents at 5am on Sunday. A team from the center was then dispatched to the location, wherein they proceeded to move the carcass to Bugbug Beach for burial, as Candidasa was determined to be too rocky to do so.

The whale shark, a female, was estimated to be around 5 meters long and weighed about 1 ton. Authorities said there was bleeding around the whale shark's mouth due to suspected collision with coral reefs, and that it had died only a few hours before it was found.

Killing of 3 monks by wild elephants shocks Buddhist Thailand

Benjamin Freeman
UCA News
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:56 UTC

Elephants feature prominently in religious and national iconography in predominantly Buddhist Thailand, whose national religion credits the jumbos with embodying the supreme qualities of the Buddha himself.

Yet their status as sacred creatures has not stopped some wild elephants from killing three Buddhist monks in three separate incidents recently within the space of a few weeks. Not surprisingly, the killing of the monks by wild elephants has shocked many of the faithful.

"Elephants injure and kill people sometimes, I know, but I assumed they would leave monks unharmed because of their holy power," Sudarat Saetang, a Buddhist, told UCA News.

In one incident last week, Phra Sombun Bunwat, a 64-year-old monk, was found dead with severe head, arm and other injuries in a grassy area of a village beside the Thong Pha Phum National Park in the central Thai province of Kanchanaburi.

Strange animal behavior: Kangaroo attacks female jogger then waits outside house 'like something from a horror movie'

Tim Stickings
Daily Mail
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 15:05 UTC

A kangaroo attacked a female jogger and chased her to a house in a scene 'like a horror movie' which was blamed on her perfume driving the animal wild (file photo)

A kangaroo attacked a female jogger and chased her to a house in a scene 'like a horror movie' in Australia which was blamed on her perfume driving the animal wild.

Tracy Noonan was knocked to the ground and scratched in the back by the kangaroo while going for a run near Melbourne, saying she had 'felt a massive thump in the middle of my back' and turned round to see the marsupial standing over her.

After taking refuge in a nearby house, she looked outside and saw the animal continuing to watch her for the next 20 minutes, she told 3AW radio.

A ranger told her that the scent of the Sarah Jessica Parker perfume she was wearing had likely attracted the kangaroo's attention, she said.

Dogs attack and kill man in Meru, Kenya

Charles Wanyoro
Nation (Kenya)
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:46 UTC

Shock engulfed Kiandugui Village in Kibirichia, Meru County, after residents found the mutilated body of a 30-year-old man who had been mauled to death by dogs.

It is suspected that the man, identified as Mbaya wa Ndethu, was attacked by the dogs as he went home. It was drizzling at the time.

The dogs tore his clothes, stripping him naked, before mauling him to death.

Area elder, Nteere Muguna, said the man's legs and hands had been partially eaten by the dogs while pieces of his clothes and shoes were scattered all over.

Comment: Also recently a man succumbed to his injuries after being attacked by 2 rottweilers in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Stunning dragon-like sea creatures wash up on beach in Cape Town, South Africa

Clea Skopeliti
The Independent (UK)
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:02 UTC

Glaucus Atlanticus

Dozens of strange blue dragon-like sea creatures have washed up on a beach near Cape Town in South Africa.

The animals appear to be Glaucus atlanticus, a type of sea slug that is also known as the sea swallow and the blue angel among other nicknames.

The creatures were found on Fish Hoek Beach, where they were photographed by Maria Wagener, who runs a Facebook page about the shore and its sealife.

Ms Wagener said she found around 20 on the beach, adding that she had never seen the creatures before, despite living near the beach for most of her life.

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Animals

Missing man found dead in Lipan, Texas after 'mountain lion attack'

Six injured in wild boar attack in Odisha, India

56-year-old man dead following shark attack at Honolua Bay, Hawaii

4 killed, 3 injured in bear attack in Chhattisgarh, India

New knowledge of the 'abdominal brain'

Whale shark washes up in Bali, Indonesia - 2nd in recent months

Killing of 3 monks by wild elephants shocks Buddhist Thailand

Strange animal behavior: Kangaroo attacks female jogger then waits outside house 'like something from a horror movie'

Dogs attack and kill man in Meru, Kenya

Stunning dragon-like sea creatures wash up on beach in Cape Town, South Africa

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