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Elephant kills 2nd mahout in Uttar Pradesh, India


The Times of India
Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:43 UTC
Charging elephant
© GettyCharging elephant
In a tragic incident, an elephant trampled his mahout to death in Dudhwa National Park on Thursday night. This is the second person that the 35-year-old elephant, Mohan, has killed in six months. At the time of the incident, no other person was in the vicinity. The body was found on Friday morning. The elephant has now been kept under observation, and forest staff have been advised to keep away from the animal.

Piecing together the evidence, forest officials believe that the incident happened when mahout Ranjeet Kumar (37) went inside the enclosure to apply medicine on another elephant, Sundar, on Thursday night. For some reason, he must have approached Mohan, which was in another part of the enclosure. Another elephant, called Gajraj, was near Mohan. It was raining heavily and Mohan may have become nervous, possibly due to the thunder and lightning, and attacked the mahout.
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Zoo bear brutally mauls man after he tries to 'tease' it with food in Thailand


Ary News
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:59 UTC
BEAR ATTACK
A horrifying footage has surfaced showing a bear brutally mauling a man who reportedly tried to tease the wild animal with food.

Naiphum Promratee, 36, had been with four friends when he decided to visit the temple in rural Phetchabun province, Thailand, this morning, reports said.

But he angered the bear who stood on its hind legs and dragged the man into the enclosure, knocking him unconscious before tearing off his flesh with its teeth.

Horrifying footage showed spectators trying in vain to scare away the bear as he mauled Promratee. His friends hit the bear with poles and threw cold water at it, to no avail.

GRAPHIC Footage: Some people may find this video disturbing


Comment: Another bear attack also occurred at a wildlife park in Sweden:
Swedish police say a man has been seriously injured by a bear in one of Europe's largest predator parks in northern Sweden.

Police say the man was cleaning an enclosure at the Orsa Rovdjurspark when he was attacked by a brown bear that had dug its way under the fence. The employee, who was not identified, was rushed to the hospital by helicopter.

Police said Friday the man had been seriously injured but didn't give details.

Park manager Anders Blomquist told Aftonbladet tabloid that a group of visitors who were inside the enclosure and witnessed the attack were shocked but unharmed.


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Signs and Portents: Two-headed piglet born in Hebei province, China


The Star (UK)
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:26 UTC
BIZARRE: This two-headed piglet just can't get enough milk
BIZARRE: This two-headed piglet just can't get enough milk
A pig farmer was stunned when one of his sows gave birth to a piglet with two heads.

The unnamed farmer found the bizarre-looking newborn at his farm near the city of Chengde in China's north-eastern Hebei province.

The piglet is really a pair of conjoined twins. The pair share a torso and four legs but the two heads are fused together.

They have one mouth, eye and nose each and a third eye sits between their two faces.

It is not clear whether the piglets' brains are joined.

Both piglets are able to drink formula milk from a bottle but they cannot stand up.

A video shows both feeding hungrily from a bottle held by an unnamed woman, who may be their owner.

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Dead whale found on shore in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

Emily Satchell
wavy.com
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 09:35 UTC
DEAD WHALE
A dead short-finned pilot whale washed up on shore last week in Kill Devil Hills.

Jennette's Pier posted on Facebook that it happened between Third and Fourth streets last Monday, July 31.

Kill Devil Hills Ocean Rescue were first to recover the 10-foot-long whale. Volunteers from the Outer Banks Marine Mammal Stranding Network responded as well.

Jennette's Pier staff took the whale from the Kill Devil Hills bathhouse at Ocean Bay Boulevard to the National Park Service's Bodie Island marine mammal shed, where North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission staff and marine mammal stranding experts performed a necropsy.

A cause of death has not yet been determined.
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Man attacked by black bear at Priest Lake, Idaho


krem.com
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 13:13 UTC
Black bear
Black bear
Idaho Fish and Game officials confirmed a man was attacked by a bear near Elkins Resort Monday afternoon.

Phil Cooper with the Idaho Fish and Game said a man was jogging on the Kalispell Reeder Trail near the resort when he saw a black bear in the timer, but kept going. The jogger told Cooper he noticed the bear began to follow him, so he turned around to face the bear, put his hands up and shouted. He said the bear charged at him so he fell to the ground then the bear took a swipe at him.

Cooper said the jogger suffered lacerations to his lower leg but was not taken to the hospital. Cooper said Fish and Game brought out dogs in an attempt to locate the bear but were unsuccessful.

Wildlife officials do not know if it is the same bear responsible for the attack near the Priest Lake Visitor Center on July 4. They did say, however, that bear encounters are "unusual."
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Girl dies following attack by pit bull terrier in Durban, South Africa

Zainul Dawood
Daily News (South Africa)
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:20 UTC
Gemma Madden was mauled hours before her 10th birthday.
Gemma Madden was mauled hours before her 10th birthday.
"I love you so much. You'll always be my hero."

These were the last words Kayla Madden spoke to her sister before she succumbed to injuries from a dog attack inside her Hillcrest home on Saturday.

Gemma, 9, died after being attacked by a pit bull at Kayla's home just hours before she was due to celebrate her 10th birthday.

The pit bull, named Nero, was euthanised by the SPCA.

Gemma, a grade 4 pupil at a school in Kloof, was dropped off at Kayla's home in Hillcrest. Their parents went out for the evening together with Kayla's boyfriend Thomas van der Spuy.
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1-year-old child killed by dog in Hartwell, Georgia

Sierra Hancock
foxcarolina.com
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 10:04 UTC
canine attack
© Angela Antunes / CC by 2.0
Georgia authorities confirm a child was attacked by a dog and fatally injured Tuesday evening.

The Hart County Coroner said a 20-month-old child was fatally attacked by a dog on Highland Avenue in Hartwell.

One person was arrested in the case thus far. Hartwell Police say Sandra Adams of Hartwell was charged with murder second degree, involuntary manslaughter, and cruelty to children second degree.

The Hartwell Police Department, Coroner's Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are investigating the incident.

There is no official word on how many dogs or what breed were involved in the incident, but GBI says all dogs on the property are now in their custody.
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Woman mauled to death by bull mastiff in Perth, Western Australia

Olivia Lambert
news.com.au
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 09:49 UTC
Sue Lopicich was killed by two dogs
Sue Lopicich was killed by two dogs
A woman has been mauled to death by a dog in Perth.

Reports suggest the attack happened in Southern River, a residential suburb in the city's southeast.

Police were called to Barko's Boarding Kennels on Terrier Place about 1.30pm local time (3.30pm EST) on Tuesday. The woman is believed to be Sue Lopicich, the owner of the boarding kennels.

St John Ambulance officers arrived not long after the attack but the woman died a short time later as a result of life threatening injuries caused by the dog.

Council rangers seized two adult male dogs, a Bull Mastiff and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

The terrier was later released after police said the mastiff was responsible for the attack.
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'Unprecedented:' Another right whale carcass found on Newfoundland shore; total now 10

Sarah Smellie
CBC News
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 09:33 UTC
Department of Fisheries and Oceans personnel take samples from a dead right whale that washed up on the shores of Cape Ray, on the west coast of Newfoundland.
© Fisheries and Oceans CanadaDepartment of Fisheries and Oceans personnel take samples from a dead right whale that washed up on the shores of Cape Ray, on the west coast of Newfoundland.
Another North Atlantic right whale carcass has washed up on the west coast of Newfoundland.

Four right whale carcasses have now been identified on the west coast of the province, bringing the number of dead right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to 10.

In a release sent Aug. 1, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans says "this is an unprecedented number of deaths and the situation is extremely concerning."

In the release, the department said the carcass was discovered south of the River of Ponds area. Its identity was confirmed after a surveillance flight.
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'Powerful' kangaroo attacks 2 golfers at Gold Coast, Australia

Dan Cancian
International Business Times
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:06 UTC
Kangaroo
A woman who rescued a golfer under attack by a kangaroo in Australia ended up suffering a severe cut on her head after the marsupial turned on her.

Liya Chan was playing golf at the Hope Island Golf Course on the Gold Coast in Queensland when she saw a fellow golfer being attacked by a kangaroo and rushed to help him. However, the animal then attacked her, leaving Chan needing six stitches to heal deep lacerations to her head.

"I thought kangaroos are cute," she said. "I didn't realise they were so aggressive."

Chan said she had tried to kick the kangaroo away after it had attacked the other golfer, but she was surprised by how strong the marsupial was and in the end she was left defending herself with her golf club.
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