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Man nearly loses foot to shark in Ponce Inlet, Florida


wftv.com
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:04 UTC
Bull shark
Bull shark
A man's foot was nearly severed Tuesday in a shark attack in Ponce Inlet.

Sam Cumiskey, 25, had surgery and is out of the hospital. He said the attack is a moment that will stick with him forever.

"I'm blessed. If the good Lord wanted to kill me, he would have done it then," he said.

Cumiskey was out surfing on Pone Inlet when he said a 7-foot bull shark bit his left leg.

He was in waters about 5-feet deep when he fell off his board and into the water. That's when he felt the animal latch on to his foot and bite down.
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Lioness attacks man near the town of Savarkundla, India


The Times of India
Sun, 28 Aug 2016 11:50 UTC
Asiatic Lioness
© Steve WilsonAsiatic Lioness
The man-lion conflict that was limited to villages on the fringe of Gir sanctuary area has now come to haunt Savarkundla town in Amreli district close to the protected forests, the abode of the endangered Asiatic lion. A 60-year-old shepherd, Madha Vaghela, was attacked by a lioness near Devla gate on Chalala Road on the outskirts of Savarkundla town on Saturday.

Vaghela was attacked by the lioness, accompanied by two sub-adult cubs, when he was walking with his herd of sheep. Forest officials said that Vaghela could never have imagined that he would become victim of lion attack as the area where the incident took place is surrounded by diamond polishing units and farm land which fall under the Savarkundla Municipality limits.
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Baird's beaked whale carcass found on coast of Point Reyes, California

Sumayah Aamir
i4u.com
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:48 UTC
Scientists from The Marine Mammal Center, California Academy of Sciences, and Point Reyes National Seashore measure the length of the stranded Baird’s beaked whale at North Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore on Monday, August 29, 2016.
© The Marine Mammal CenterScientists from The Marine Mammal Center, California Academy of Sciences, and Point Reyes National Seashore measure the length of the stranded Baird’s beaked whale at North Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore on Monday, August 29, 2016.
A stranded whale's body was found on the coast of Point Reyes.

A 34 foot long whale that belonged to a deep water species was found stranded on the beach at Point Reyes. This was reported by the Marine Mammal Center.

A group of eleven scientists investigated the case of the stranded whale carcass. It was an adult Baird's beaked whale. A post-mortem of the rotten carcass of the whale revealed that there had been a lot of hemorrhaging on the left side and a severed fluke was present somewhere in its body as well.

The poor whale had probably been struck by a man-made seafaring vessel. This is the first Baird's beaked whale the Marine Mammal Center has seen in such a disintegrated condition in its entire history, according to Bay City News.
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Farmer survives 3 hour bear attack in Karnataka, India

Darren Boyle
Daily Mail
Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:50 UTC
Indian sloth bears
The man believes he was attacked by an Indian sloth bear. Despite their almost comical looks and awkward gait, they can be very effective killers according to experts
A farmer who fought a terrifying three-hour battle with a bear has astonished medics by surviving massive head injuries caused in the attack.

Victim Jube Valanti Adveppache, 58, had been picking mushrooms in one of his fields in southern India when the bear attacked without warning.

Jube later told wildlife officials and police how the animal - believed to be a sloth bear - pounced on him without warning and would not let him go.

In a scene remarkably similar to the bear attack in Leonardo Di Caprio's hit movie The Revenant, the predator kept breaking off the attack and then restarting it.

Jube says it was three hours before the bear seemed convinced he had killed him and moved off into the forests around Haliyal in Karnataka State.
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Woman survives black bear attack in her own back yard in Warren County, Virginia

Matthew Fultz |
whsv.com
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:08 UTC
Black bear
Black bear
It was a close call for Judy Milden as she went toe to toe with a black bear.

"I've never seen a big bear that close before (or) actually touched it, so that was pretty wild too," said Milden.

Milden said Saturday night she let her dogs out before bed. That's when they started barking in the distance.

Milden said she initially thought it was just raccoons, but it turns out it was a mother bear and her cubs. That's when the bear attacked one of her dogs.

"I wasn't even thinking about anything with me. I was just worried about the dog," Milden said.
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Man-eating tigress claims its third victim in 11 days in Dudhwa National Park, India


Catch News
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:54 UTC
Tiger
© Representational Image
A man-eating tigress in Dudhwa National Park claimed its third victim on 30 August. A man was mauled to death by the predator near Dudhwa in Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh. The incident occurred in Cheedipur village and angry villagers pelted stones at forest officials forcing them to flee the spot. An official informed Catch that the man was walking back home when the tigress attacked him.

The animal killed its first victim on 19 August and villagers rushed to the spot forcing the animal to abandon its kill. A day later, the tigress killed another man near the same spot and devoured some of his body parts. Since then, there had been no attacks, but that changed on Tuesday.

The forest department along with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) have been making desperate attempts to track the animal, but to no avail. All attempts to capture the tiger have failed despite several teams working day in and out to locate the animal.
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Wolf

Contractor attacked by wolf at Cigar Lake, Canada


ckom.com
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:38 UTC
Wolf
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A contractor working in northern Saskatchewan is recovering in hospital after he was mauled by a wolf.

The 26-year-old victim was on his lunch break at Cameco's Cigar Lake uranium mine Monday morning when the wolf made the unprovoked attack.

The incident ended when a security guard scared the animal away.

"We were very fortunate the security guard was in the place where she was," said Rob Geraghty, Cameco spokesperson. "She took a number of steps to not only get the animal away, but also to administer first aid."
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Wolf

Family dogs kill woman and injure her son in Conifer, Colorado

Kieran Nicholson
Denver Post
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:39 UTC
Dog attack
A woman was killed Monday night in a dog attack in Conifer and her son suffered injuries and was taken to a local hospital.

The incident happened at about 7 p.m. when the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call about the attack, said Dionne Waugh, a sheriff's office spokeswoman.

Deputies responded to the 31000 block of Black Widow Drive. A woman died at the scene and her son, who is in his late teens or early 20s, was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Waugh said.

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Thousands of dead fish found in Portland Harbor, Maine

Katie Sampson
wgme.com
Sat, 27 Aug 2016 11:48 UTC
dead fish
Dead fish
Thousands of dead fish could be seen in Portland Harbor Saturday.

Acting Portland harbor master Kevin Battle calls it a "fish kill". He says it appears bigger fish like stripers chased smaller fish into the harbor, eating them. When that happens, Battle says the fish use up lots of oxygen and more fish die in the process.

Battle says as many as 10,000 fish were floating in the harbor. He says this is the first time he's seen this in Portland in eight or nine years.

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High water temperatures may have caused the die-off of hundreds of thousands of mussels in Jamesport, New York

Paul Squire
River Head News Review
Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:27 UTC
Dead mussels
Dead mussels
What caused thousands of blue mussels to appear along the shoreline in the Jamesport area this week hasn't officially been determined. However, a local biologist believes the culprit may be rising water temperatures in the Long Island Sound.

"They've been hit with these consecutive heat waves that are just too hot for them," said Christopher Gobler, the associate dean and researcher with the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook.

State Department of Environmental Conservation officials concurred.

"It is likely that high water temperatures due to the prolonged hot temperatures we have experienced this summer is the cause," DEC spokesperson Aphrodite Montalvo said.

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