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Woman 'torn apart' and mauled to death by brother's Rottweiler in Italy

Jon King
Daily Express
Sun, 09 Apr 2023 12:17 UTC
dog attack
A woman died after her brother's Rottweiler attacked her as she took it food while her sibling was away on holiday. Patrizia La Marca, 53, was savagely attacked by the hound in Ventimiglia, Italy.

Members of a team of emergency responders called to the scene said they had "never seen anything like it" after the woman had "pieces of her body torn away".

Ms La Marca was tragically mauled to death in the resort town in the province of Imperia on Wednesday afternoon.

She was found with bites to her arms, chest, shoulders and head at about 4pm
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Attention

Bear kills jogger on woodland path in northern Italy


Guardian
Sat, 08 Apr 2023 14:26 UTC
A Marsican brown bear in Majella national park in Abruzzo, Italy. Brown bears were reintroduced to Trentino between 1996 and 2004.
© Valerio Mei/AlamyA Marsican brown bear in Majella national park in Abruzzo, Italy. Brown bears were reintroduced to Trentino between 1996 and 2004.
A bear attacked and killed a jogger on a woodland path in north-east Italy, the first case of its kind, a source close to the case told AFP on Friday.

Andrea Papi, 26, was killed on Wednesday while out running in the mountainous region near his village, Caldes, in the Trentino region. His family raised the alarm when he failed to return and a search team found his body overnight.

He had suffered deep wounds to the neck, arms and chest, and an autopsy carried out on Friday concluded that he had been attacked by a bear, the source added, confirming Italian news reports.

In March, a man was attacked by a bear in the same region, prompting a debate on the dangers posed by the animals, which were reintroduced there between 1996 and 2004.
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Attention

Dead whale discovered in San Leandro, California


nbcbayarea.com
Fri, 07 Apr 2023 12:59 UTC
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A dead whale appeared to washed ashore near San Leandro Marina Park Friday.

NBC Bay Area's SkyRanger flew over the area and captured it near the San Leandro Marina. A group of people were seen gathered around it taking pictures.

The Marine Mammal Center told NBC Bay Area that their team was alerted Friday afternoon by the California Academy of Sciences of a dead gray whale that was floating offshore in San Leandro. Officials added that group of their experts plan to respond to the dead whale "depending on tidal patterns and location accessibility."


Comment: On the same day a sperm whale washed ashore in near Grimsby in the UK:
A ten-metre sperm whale is feared to have died after it washed up on the east coast of England in Lincolnshire.

British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) was called at about 12.15pm on Good Friday to help with a 'large stranded whale' on the beach at Cleethorpes, near Grimsby.

The marine mammal response charity said the whale had been spotted 'upright in the water' at about midday, but by the time it reached the beach it was stranded on its side.

A BDMLR spokesperson said: 'Unfortunately, the tide was rising quickly and therefore there was no way for BDMLR medics to safely access the whale, and it was soon under the water.

'The beach safety team were able to show our medics CCTV footage of the whale before it became submerged, and it did appear to have passed away.'

The sperm whale was found near Grimsby, in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England
The sperm whale was found near Grimsby, in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England.


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Attention

Massive sperm whale beaches itself, dies in Bali, Indonesia


The Jakarta Post
Thu, 06 Apr 2023 11:37 UTC
Villagers look at a dead sperm whale (Physeter Macrocephalus) that was stranded at Yeh Malet beach, in Klungkung, on 5 April 2023
© Dicky Bisinglasi/AFPVillagers look at a dead sperm whale (Physeter Macrocephalus) that was stranded at Yeh Malet beach, in Klungkung, on 5 April 2023
Animal experts were preparing Thursday to conduct an autopsy on an 18-metre (59-foot) whale that died after washing up on a beach in Bali, conservation officials said.

The sperm whale, believed to weigh many tonnes, beached itself in the east of Bali on Wednesday before locals and officials pushed it back out to sea.

But after swimming away it became stranded again just hours later on a different beach and died on the shore with no visible wounds, local marine and fisheries official Permana Yudiarso told AFP.

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Fish

Rare smalltooth sand tiger shark found in Wexford, Ireland within 2 weeks of another discovered in England - first records for both countries

Ellen O'Donoghue
The Irish Times
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 11:48 UTC
Dr Nicholas Payne and Dr Jenny Bortoluzzi measure the 14ft female smalltooth sand tiger shark on Kilmore Quay in Co Wexford
Dr Nicholas Payne and Dr Jenny Bortoluzzi measure the 14ft female smalltooth sand tiger shark on Kilmore Quay in Co Wexford
A 14ft-long smalltooth sand tiger shark washed up at Kilmore Quay in Co Wexford on Saturday.

Scientists believe this is the first official record of the species being found in Ireland's waters.

The smalltooth sand tiger shark, scientifically called Odontaspis ferox, is a species rarely encountered by humans as it is normally found in water more than 100m deep.

Shark biologist Dr Nicholas Payne, an assistant professor in Trinity College Dublin's (TCD) school of natural sciences, "could not believe it" when he received an email from a Swiss tourist who discovered the shark while walking on Saturday.


Comment: Videos of the same species (first record for the UK) found on the Hampshire coast in England on March 17th:



The Daily Mail has a detailed account of the discovery.

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Doberman

Elderly woman mauled to death by pitbulls in Cape Town, South Africa

Tammy Petersen
News 24
Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:50 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
The body of an 88-year-old Cape Town woman is believed to have only been discovered several hours after her neighbour's two pit bulls attacked and mauled her in her backyard.

Olga Grill died after her neighbour's dogs assailed her in her backyard in Bonteheuwel on Tuesday. She is believed to have been hanging her laundry when the pair jumped over the fence and attacked.

Her heartbroken son, Graham Woodman, 68, left home in the early hours of the morning for work. He had made her breakfast to tide her over until her carer arrived at 10:00.

His mother was fiercely independent, Woodman said. She preferred to take care of herself, insisting that she could cook and clean for herself, despite his offers to do the household chores for her.

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Doberman

2 people on scooter attacked by pack of dogs in Punjab, India

Guneet kaur
.truescoopnews.com
Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:24 UTC
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In the latest development, a group of dogs attacked 2 people in Jalandhar city. The case has been reported from Jalandhar City's Bhairon market. Reportedly, 2 scooty riding people were passing through a street late at night during which they were attacked by around 5-6 dogs.

The dogs tried to harm him due to which the victim's jacket got torn off. Post this, the dogs also tried to bite him but the other person took a stone and acted to hit them after which they ran away. The CCTV of the same has gone viral.

The video shows 2 people riding on a scooty and suddenly a dog started barking at them. So that the dog does not attack them, they stopped the vehicle and waited for dogs to calm down. Instead of running away, the dogs became aggressive and attacked the person sitting behind.

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Doberman

2-year-old Virginia boy killed in Maryland dog attack, police investigating

Sonia Dasgupta
wjla.com
Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:55 UTC
dog attack
A two-year-old Virginia boy is dead after a dog attacked him in Maryland Tuesday evening, according to Brunswick Police Department.

According to officials, Brunswick Police and the Frederick County Division of Fire & Rescue Services (DFRS) were called to a report of a child in cardiac arrest around 5:13 p.m. in the 400 block of West B Street.

There they found the toddler suffering from life-threatening injuries from a dog bite. While they tried to treat the little boy, he went into cardiac arrest.
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Doberman

Man mauled to death by 2 pit bulls in southwest Detroit

Andrés Gutiérrez
CBS News
Wed, 05 Apr 2023 08:52 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
A man was mauled to death by stray dogs in southwest Detroit.

Police say the dogs allegedly attacked him at a building on Fort Street between Morell and Junction streets.

People who live in the area have seen a number of stray dogs. Some of them are described as vicious and have targeted neighborhood pets.

Neighbors feared this tragedy was only a matter of time.

"They look like junkyard dogs all greasy and dirty they're scared, but when they're together, that's when they're dangerous because they run in a pack," Gordon Compton, one of those neighbors, said.

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Wolf

Dingo mauls swimming girl, 6, pulling her underwater in terrifying beach attack in Queensland, Australia

Alice Scarsi
Daily Express
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:43 UTC
A little girl has been flown to hospital after she was attacked by a dingo which held her underwater and repeatedly bit her on the head.
A little girl has been flown to hospital after she was attacked by a dingo which held her underwater and repeatedly bit her on the head.
The incident occurred in shallow water at Waddy Point Beach, on Fraser Island, also known as K-gari - a World Heritage-listed island in Australia's Queensland region.

The girl was bitten on the back of her head, suffered puncture wounds around one of her ears and was also hurt on her hands.

A rescue helicopter was sent to the island to support the victim of the attack, which took place just after 4pm on Tuesday.

The young child was treated by paramedics at the scene before being flown, in stable conditions, to Hervey Bay Hospital in central Queensland.

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