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Tiger, Tiger? looking slight: Indian farmer paints dog like tiger to scare away monkeys


Dunyanews.tv
Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:27 UTC
Indian farmer paints dog like tiger to scare monkeys
Indian farmer Srikanth Gowda has painted his pet dog Bulbul with black stripes and yellow color to make it look like a tiger in an effort to protect his coffee crop from the attack of monkeys.

The farmer told, "I now take Bulbul to the fields twice a day -- in the morning and evening. I have seen monkeys running away at the sight of the dog. The monkeys now refrain from entering my plantations."

Indian reports stated that Bulbul's stripes were painted on using hair dye.

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Hungry brown bear breaks into house, devours man and his dog in Irkutsk, Siberia

Will Stewart
Mirror
Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:31 UTC
bear
A hungry brown bear ate a grandfather and his pet dog after breaking into the victim's house in a Russian village.

Only one arm and a leg were left intact from 66-year-old Sergey Fadeyev's ravaged body, according to reports.

The 16st beast - which had failed to hibernate for the cold winter - covered the man's ravaged remains with a blanket after its gruesome feast, evidently aiming to come back later, according to locals.

The bear broke in by smashing a window in his house in Irkutsk region of Siberia where temperatures were as low as -45C.

The predator was later found and shot by local hunters, say reports.

Comment: Bear sightings, attacks spike due to food shortages in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

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Third whale in two months found dead in River Thames, London

Peter Stubley
The Independent (UK)
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 10:16 UTC
The mammal was found motionless on the river banks under Battersea Bridge
The mammal was found motionless on the river banks under Battersea Bridge
Stranded minke discovered by members of public near Battersea Bridge in London

A dead whale has been found in the River Thames for the third time in the past two months.

The marine mammal - believed to be a minke - was spotted swimming up and down the river in London by several members of the public on Friday.

A dog-walker later found it lying motionless in shallow water near Battersea Bridge at around 9.30pm and it was later confirmed dead when a rescue team arrived.
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Rose

Amazonian tree with human-sized leaves finally Identified as new species

Shreya Dasgupta
Monga Bay
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:00 UTC
Coccoloba gigantifolia
© Rogério GribelCoccoloba gigantifolia leaves can reach 2.5 meters (8 feet) in length.
At the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil, a framed exhibit of a massive dried leaf has been a local attraction for decades. But the complete identity of the tree it belongs to remained unresolved — until now.

Researchers have known that the tree is a species of Coccoloba, a genus of flowering plants that grow in the tropical forests of the Americas. Botanists from INPA first encountered an individual of the unknown Coccoloba tree in 1982 while surveying the Madeira River Basin in the Brazilian Amazon. They spotted more individuals of the plant over subsequent expeditions in the 1980s. But they couldn't pinpoint the species at the time. The individual trees weren't bearing any flowers or fruits then, parts that are essential to describing a plant species, and their leaves were too large to dehydrate, press and carry back to INPA. The researchers did take notes and photographs.

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Thousands of jellyfish blanket beach after major storm in Crimea


The Weather Network
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:31 UTC
jelly fish
Thousands of jellyfish have washed up on popular beaches along Crimea's Azov Sea after a major storm, giving the shoreline a soft gleam.

The jellyfish washed ashore on Tuesday (November 26) were of the Aurelia aurita jellyfish, commonly known as 'moon jelly' and root-mouth jellyfish species.

Their on-shore appearance is bad for both beachgoers and the jellyfish themselves. Jellyfish start dying the moment they hit the beach and can still sting people if handled.


Source: Reuters
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Car Black

Bear blamed for car damages in Alaska airport parking lot


ABC News
Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:00 UTC
Bear tears apart car
A bear has been blamed for a pair of vehicle break-ins at an Alaska airport parking lot that resulted in thousands of dollars in damage to one car, officials said.

The vandalism occurred at the Island Air terminal parking lot adjacent to the Kodiak Benny Benson State Airport, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Wednesday.

Vehicle owners Doreen Phillips and Alyssa Brenteson are both residents of Akhiok, a village about 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Kodiak.

Brenteson parked her car for two days at the lot and returned to find a caved-in roof, broken window, ripped seats, and muddy bear prints and fur covering her car, she said.
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Blue Planet

Shell shock! Mesmerising video shows greatest density of sea turtles ever recorded


RT
Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:46 UTC
Turtles
© Pexels / Belle Co
One of the largest known gatherings of sea turtles ever recorded has been captured in an incredible video shared online. The beautiful footage was filmed near Costa Rica as the leathery reptiles were preparing to lay their eggs.

The truly mesmerizing footage was uploaded to YouTube this week by marine biologist Vanessa Bézy; using a drone, she captured the turtle swarm swimming in the Ostional National Wildlife Refuge back in November 2016.

"Everybody I've shown this video has an emotional response," Bézy says. "I immediately knew there was something special going on... To this day, I'm still blown away by the video."
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Doberman

Girl mauled to death by 2 dogs in China

Alice Yan
South China Morning Post
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:07 UTC
canine attack
© Angela Antunes / CC by 2.0
A nine-year-old girl was mauled to death by two shepherd dogs on her way to school in northern China last week, according to Chinese news reports.

The girl, identified only as Ling Ling, was attacked while walking alone on a small rural path between a cornfield and woodland in Quyang county, Hebei province, last Thursday, Shanghai-based news site Thepaper.cn reported on Tuesday.

She cried out as the dogs lunged for her neck and passing pupils ran to the school for help, the Yanzhou Metropolis Daily reported.

Ling Ling's older sister came running and tried to drive the dogs off with rocks but failed and went home to get their parents, the newspaper report said.

The parents drove the animals away but the girl later died of her wounds in hospital.

"Both dogs were big. They jumped on and bit the girl's neck. Her neck was almost severed and her head had wounds, too," the newspaper quoted a villager as saying. "It's so horrific."
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 49 cattle in Zambia


Lusakatimes.com
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 07:59 UTC
lightning kills cows
Lightning has killed 49 herds of cattle in a kraal of 90 animals in Ndiki area of Limulunga district in Western province.

This happened around 16 hours yesterday, lightning struck a kraal housing cattle belonging to Malebekwa Mbulai (91).

Mr. Mbulai, who was emotional charged said he wondered how lightning struck the animals that were under a tree which was however not affected at all.

He said the incident was strange considering the fact that the meat did not turn dark as usually is the case in lightning incidents.

The 91-year-old man said almost all the animals that died were oxen, which are used for transportation and ploughing.
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Doberman

Bear-hunting hounds attack hikers and pup in Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont

Christopher Ross
Addison County Independent
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:18 UTC
Two hikers and their dog were attacked by several bear hunting dogs last month.
© ESOlex / iStockTwo hikers and their dog were attacked by several bear hunting dogs last month.
On Saturday, Oct. 19, around mid-day, a pack of bear hunting dogs attacked two hikers and their puppy on the Catamount Trail in the Green Mountain National Forest near the Ripton-Goshen border.

Former Ripton resident Meryl Siegman, 65, and her husband, Ron Scapp, 64, who have been hiking in the area for more than 30 years, had completed roughly one-quarter of their intended walk when they heard barking, they told the Independent.

"Almost instantaneously we were swarmed by five dogs," Siegman said.

Scapp described them as "big hound dogs, in the 60- to 80-pound range, wearing GPS collars."
The couple had been aware that it was hunting season.

"We're always running into hunters on the trail and we've encountered people with hunting dogs before," Scapp said. "Usually they're on a scent trail. But these dogs attacked immediately."

Comment: Four weeks later in Europe: Pregnant woman killed by hunting dogs in France

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