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Coyote attacks toddler outside home in Woodland Hills, California


FOX 11
Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:31 UTC
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A terrifying sight for a parent as a young child was attacked by a coyote outside their Woodland Hills home.

The incident, which occurred Friday evening on Martha Street near Capistrano Avenue, was caught on surveillance cameras.

The child and her father got home, parked in the driveway and started to get out of the vehicle. As the father reaches into the car to grab something, the coyote comes along and appears to bite the toddler. The little girl screams and her father rushes to her side and the coyote starts backing away.

According to California Fish and Wildlife, they have received several calls regarding an aggressive coyote in the neighborhood weeks prior to this incident.

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Doberman

Pit bull mauls man to death in South Africa - 5th such fatality within 3 weeks

Marvin Charles and Lisalee Solomons
News 24
Sun, 04 Dec 2022 12:13 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
A pit bull mauled a 39-year-old man to death in the early hours of Saturday in Mogwase near Rustenburg in the North West.

Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Amanda Funani said Floyd Metsileng was a patron of the tavern.

"When the time came to close the tavern, the owner did so. He allegedly alerted the people to leave, closed [the tavern] and left the premises. It is alleged that the owner unleashed his dogs, as he normally does, after closing [the tavern]," she said.

It was alleged that Metsileng went back to the tavern, Funani said.

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Doberman

Pack of dogs viciously maul man to death as he checked electricity meter in Queensland, Australia

Hannah Moore
Daily Mail
Sat, 03 Dec 2022 13:10 UTC
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A contractor for an energy company has died after he was attacked by multiple dogs at a home in Greenbank, Queensland.

Emergency services were called to a home on Ison Road about 10.45am on Saturday morning, where paramedics located a 42-year-old Marsden man with critical injuries.

He died at the scene despite the best efforts of emergency services.

The man is understood to have been a contractor for Energex and was sent to read a meter box at a house when he was set upon by three Bull Arabs.
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Blue Planet

Toxoplasmosis turning wolves into pack leaders, new research suggests


Futurism
Thu, 01 Dec 2022 23:49 UTC
Mexican wolves Brookfield zoo
© Antonio Perez / Chicago TribuneMexican wolves wrestle in their habitat at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield on Feb. 7, 2018.
It seems that grey wolves are yet more victims of the strange and poorly-understood toxoplasma gondii parasite — but in their case, the effects of this brain worm seem to be driving the wolves toward leadership roles.

A new study in the journal Communications Biology details how an analysis of 27 years of data found that grey wolves in Yellowstone National Park that were infected with the T. gondii parasite were, like most animals who get the associated toxoplasmosis disease, driven toward risk-taking behaviors.

While that often plays out poorly in other animals — including humans, who can catch toxoplasmosis from cat crap, some scientists say — the infected canids surveyed by the Yellowstone Wolf Project for the study appeared to be up to 46 times more likely to become pack leaders in the wake of infection. This may be because T. gondii has been shown in other mammals — including, in humans in particular — to increase testosterone levels, the research notes.
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Attention

6 pilot whales found stranded on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Diego Lopez, Arun Rath
wgbh.org
Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:32 UTC
The pilot whales were found stranded on a Massachusetts beach
The pilot whales were found stranded on a Massachusetts beach
After three days trying to save several beached pilot whales in Cape Cod, rescuers' efforts came to an end Wednesday.

Six whales were found stranded on an Eastham beach on Monday afternoon. Rescuers' efforts to get the whales back in water in the high tide were initially successful, but they found the youngest whale dead on Tuesday and then discovered four of the other whales had turned back toward the shore and gotten stranded again.

Misty Niemeyer, an animal rescue officer and stranding coordinator with the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which led the response, said they were cautiously optimistic about the effort but in the end it was not possible to save those four whales that re-stranded. She said all of them were in poor health and were located in an area where it was hard to work. That combined with today's gale force winds and high tide after dark led veterinarians and biologists determine the best course of action was to euthanize the whales.

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Cow

Over 1.1 million farm animals lost in floods across Pakistan, seminar told


Dawn
Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:17 UTC
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Highlighting their concerns over incidents of animal cruelty and absence of any state initiatives for animal welfare in decades, speakers at a seminar held on Wednesday shared that animals suffered a lot more than humans in this year's devastating floods and much of their ordeal still remained undocumented.

The event — Floods 2022 and Animal Welfare in Pakistan — was jointly organised by the provincial livestock and fisheries department and Brooke Pakistan, an international non-profit organisation working since 1991 for the welfare of equine animals belonging to the poor.

Citing official and international data, the speakers stated that the loss of livestock alone had been estimated to be over 1.1 million in the devastating floods, which had the greatest impact on Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh.
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Attention

Humpback whale carcass washes ashore in Cape Town, South Africa

Cebelihle Mthethwa and Lisalee Solomons
News24
Sat, 26 Nov 2022 13:10 UTC
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City of Cape Town (CoCT) officials are trying to remove the carcass of a 15-metre male humpback whale that washed ashore at Strand Beach on Saturday morning.

According to the City, reports of the carcass were received at around 05:00.

The City's coastal manager, Gregg Oelofse, told News24 that the whale had been dead for five days.

"Our technical team is on site, and we're waiting for the bulldozer to arrive and remove the carcass, which will then be taken to a landfill site," he added.

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Doberman

Yet another death due to dog attack in South Africa - 4th in 2 weeks

Gloria Motsoere
Eyewitness News
Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:49 UTC
dog attack
There's been another fatal dog attack this time in the Eastern Cape where a woman is the latest victim.

Police said the 37-year-old woman was on her way to work when she was attacked in Port Alfred on Sunday and sustained serious injuries to her face and upper body.

It's understood two men who witnessed the attack reported the incident to a security official who rushed to the scene.

The woman, who was lying on the side of the road died before receiving medical attention.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike kills 16 cattle in Zimbabwe


Pindula News
Sun, 27 Nov 2022 12:28 UTC
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A lightning bolt struck and killed 16 herd of cattle belonging to three families in Mbembesi 1, in Lupane East Constituency.

The lightning incident occurred last week on Thursday.

Kusile Rural District Councillor for Ward 23 Fibion Ngwenya said of the 16 beasts, 13 belonged to one family while two other families lost two and one respectively. Ngwenya said:
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Doberman

Stray dogs maul 2-year-old to death in Himachal Pradesh, India


MSN
Sat, 26 Nov 2022 09:26 UTC
dog attack
In Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, a horrifying incident involving a dog attack came to light. Several stray dogs killed a two-year-old girl by mauling her to death. On Thursday, the dead girl went missing. The girl's dead body was discovered in the morning in area, close to the hut.

As per the media reports, the victim's family is a resident of Bhagat Nagar in Punjab's Hoshiarpur and that the body of the child, who had been missing since Thursday night, was discovered close to a thatched hut. The girl's parents work in municipal council Hamirpur's sanitation department. The girl was reportedly seen playing behind the hut. In the meantime, a herd of dogs arrived and pulled the girl toward the bushes.
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