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Massive increase in dog attacks on children in Surrey and Sussex, UK; up from 187 to 511 in a year


Eagle Radio
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:16 UTC
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A child is attacked by a dog in Surrey and Sussex every day.

Shocking new statistics show there were 511 incidents in the patch from April 2015 to March 2016.

That is up more than 300 from the year before.

The data comes from the NHS which says a third of children in the UK will encounter a dog every day.

Below show the figures in Surrey and Sussex since 2011.
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Wolf

Woman left brain dead following attack by 2 dogs near Bozeman, Montana

Whitney Bermes
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:40 UTC
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A woman was left brain dead after being attacked by two dogs near Bozeman on Saturday morning.

Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin said the attack happened around 8 a.m. Saturday at 5499 Love Lane. Two dogs were involved, one of them a pit bull, he said.

The victim, 65-year-old Melissa Barnes, was initially attacked by the pit bull, Gootkin said, and the second dog followed suit. Barnes was flown to a Billings hospital for treatment and declared brain dead on Sunday, the sheriff said.

Both dogs were euthanized voluntarily by their owners, Gootkin said. The dogs, neither of which had up-to-date vaccinations, were then taken to the Montana Department of Livestock's Veterinary Diagnostic Lab in Bozeman to be tested for rabies.
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Boy dies after attack by stray dog pack in Telangana, India


The Hindu.
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:31 UTC
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A pack of stray dogs mauled a 7-year-old boy in Shamirpet on Monday. The boy succumbed to the injuries later in the day. The incident happened as the child's father and some locals were offering Id prayers at a mosque.

The boy, Mohammed Farooq, accompanied his father to a mosque. After being inside for a while, he came out to play when he was attacked by a pack of dogs, Sub-Inspector M. Jagender, said. The boy could not be rescued from the dogs immediately as the adults were inside the mosque and unaware of the incident outside. Later, when the badly injured boy was noticed, the locals rushed him to a private hospital and later to Niloufer Hospital in the city. The child died while being treated.

"At least five dogs attacked the boy and tore him apart. He had suffered grievous injuries," the police official said. A case was registered under Section 174 of CrPC.
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Attention

'Unprecedented event': 6 North Atlantic right whales discovered dead during June in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Jordan Gill
CBC News
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:36 UTC
Researchers from the Marine Animal Response Society examine one of the dead right whales.
© Marine Animal Response SocietyResearchers from the Marine Animal Response Society examine one of the dead right whales.
Since June 7, six North Atlantic right whales have been found dead, floating in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in a loss that amounts to more than one per cent of the population of the endangered species.

The whales were all found in the area between New Brunswick's Miscou Island, Quebec's Magdalen Islands and northern P.E.I.

While there have been sightings of dead right whales in the area before, Tonya Wimmer, a marine biologist and the director of Marine Animal Response Society, said it's on a different scale this time around. The charitable organization is dedicated to rescue and study of marine animals.

"It's a bit of an unprecedented event in that we've never had an incident like this involving right whales where so many animals have been turning up dead just over the last few weeks," said Wimmer.
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Guard dog kills boy at school in Ghana

Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu
Graphic Online
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:26 UTC
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Teachers and pupils of New Amanful Basic School, a fishing community near Takoradi, are yet to come to terms with the horror of how an Alsatian strayed into the school and killed a six-year-old class one pupil who was playing with his schoolmates on the school's compound.

The pupils were said to be playing when the dog attacked Bismark Adzie and inflicted serious injuries on him.

Some brave onlookers went to the aid of the victim, but he died hours later at the Kwesimintsim Hospital due to the deep wounds inflicted on him by the dog.

Dog owner's residence

The owner of the dog, whose house shares a wall with the school, is said to have suffered several robbery attacks since he moved to New Amanful in the Ahanta West District in the Western Region.

According to the police, in order to protect himself and his property, the owner of the dog bought large breed of dogs, typically used as guard dogs.
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Attention

2 injured by brown bears in one day for Alaska

Michelle Theriault Boots
Alaska Dispatch News
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:08 UTC
James Fredrick credits his friend Alex Ippoliti for saving his life when a brown bear attacked him Saturday morning as the two biked on a gravel road on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
© James FredrickJames Fredrick credits his friend Alex Ippoliti for saving his life when a brown bear attacked him Saturday morning as the two biked on a gravel road on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
On Saturday morning, James Fredrick and his friend Alex Ippoliti were biking down a well-used gravel road on military land near Clunie Lake in Eagle River when they heard a rustling in the bushes.

The two friends were already hyper-aware after two fatal, predatory black bear attacks last week that have set Alaskans on edge.

"With all the things that had been going on, I made sure I had my bear bell on and bear spray with me," said Ippoliti, who lives in Eagle River.

What happened next came so fast that Fredrick, who lives in Anchorage, is still turning it over in his mind from the hospital bed where he is recovering from being attacked by a brown bear. It was one of two brown bear maulings in Southcentral Alaska Saturday.

Fredrick says his friend saved his life.

Shortly after they heard the rustling sound, a brown bear emerged from the woods and ran "20-30 yards" toward them, Ippoliti said. Suddenly, the bear was on Fredrick, pulling him from his bike.

Comment: See also: Second fatal mauling by black bear in just 2 days for Alaska

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Woman mauled to death by tiger near Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary, India; third such attack in 2016

Seema Sharma
The Times of India
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:44 UTC
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A 39-year-old woman was mauled to death by a tiger in Boom range of Champawat forest division on Saturday morning. It is the third incident of tiger attack in forest areas around Nandhour Wildlife Sanctuary (NWLS) this year. The forest department officials said that they have intensified efforts to capture the tiger.

The incident occurred when Bastiya village resident Sarita Devi had gone to collect fodder into the forest along with other women. A tiger attacked her while she was cutting grass slightly away from her group. By the time other women realised that Devi was missing from their group, the tiger had mauled her to death. The women had to call local residents to shoo the animal away as it was sitting near the body.

Divisional forest official Ashok Kumar said that tigers have been straying into nearby forest divisions from NWLS and attacking people venturing into forests. He said that villagers enter forest areas despite being warned by forest department officials.
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"Something must be attracting them": Thousands of harp seals surround Russian drilling rig in Arctic Circle


RT
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:45 UTC
Harp seals drilling rig pechora sea
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An enormous herd of harp seals has occupied every free ice floe as far as the eye can see around Russia's Prirazlomnaya offshore oil drilling rig located in the Pechora Sea, inside the Arctic Circle.

"I've never seen anything like this. There are thousands of them!" says an astonished oil rig worker, who did not wish to identify himself, during a minute-long video that was sent to the Russian explorer and travel writer Sergey Dolya, who posted it on his blog.

Harp seals migrate annually between their birthing and feeding grounds and the Arctic, where they spend the summer, often traveling in excess of 4,000 km in large colonies.

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Dangerous dog attacks rocket across Lancashire, UK; 70% increase in 2 years


2RB
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:28 UTC
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2BR has got hold of figures showing dangerous dog attacks have increased by 70% in two years.

We asked Lancashire Police to tell us how many of these incidents they investigated.

In 2014, they recorded 162 dangerous dog attacks.

But the year after, that had shot up to 499.

Last year, they had to investigate 545 incidents involving dangerously out of control dogs.
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Angry elephant flips car and goes on a rampage at festival in Kerala, India

Liz Dunphy
Daily Mail
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:48 UTC
The angry animal flipped a car across the grounds and mowed over motorcycles in rage
The angry animal flipped a car across the grounds and mowed over motorcycles in rage
Incredible footage has emerged of an angry elephant flipping over a car with its trunk.

The elephant was appearing at a local festival called Ambalapura in Thrissur, Kerela in Southern India when it went on the rampage.

The video shows the angry elephant toppling a car, sending it tumbling across the ground, and flipping over motor cycles.

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