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Lynx attacks goat, mad brawl inside living room ensues in Dinorwic, Canada

Mike Aiken
kenoraonline.com
Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:28 UTC
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Stella the goat shows her wounds, after a battle with a Lynx in Dinorwic earlier this month.
John Cox of Dinorwic was cleaning up in the basement, getting ready for a day of ice fishing, when he got a call from his daughter.

He's in the house, already, so he picks up the call, and he talks with his daughter.

"Dad, where are you?," she asks. "There's a cat attached to our goat!"

He goes upstairs to see what's the matter.

"Sure enough. There's Stella. That's our biggest goat. The mother of the three. She's got this wildcat attached to her neck. Absolutely. The claws are dug into her shoulders. The back claws are dug into her haunches. The mouth was wrapped around her neck, and she was hemorrhaging," Cox remembers.

The goat was screaming, as it tried to use its horns to dislodge the lynx. Cox went back downstairs to get his rifle. It was a British .303 Second World War model, and it came with a bayonet and an extra magazine. Then he went back upstairs, so he could get a shot at the lynx.

"I open the door, and Stella sees me at the door," he recalled. "Just as I open to take the shot, she bursts the door open, and now both animals are inside the living room."
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Rhino kills woman and injures eight in Nepal


dnaindia.com
Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:40 UTC
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© Bidur GiriA runaway rhinoceros travels along a road in Hetauda, Makawanpur district about 40kms south-west of Kathmandu.
A 61-year-old woman was killed and eight others were injured on Monday when a wild rhinoceros attacked people at a busy market in central Nepal. The woman is a resident of Hetauda town, Hetauda's Superintendent of Police Prakashjung Karki said.

She was critically injured in the attack, died in course of treatment at Hetauda Hospital, Karki was quoted as saying by the Himalyan Times. A cow was also injured in the attack in Hetauda market.

The animal entered the human settlement from Chitwan National Park early on Monday.

The rhino is hiding in a bush near the Rapti River and the personnel from Armed Police Force and Nepal Police are trying to take it under control, Karki said.

It's uncommon of rhinos to kill people in Nepal even as deforestation often forces them to enter nearby villages. The number of one-horned rhinos that dominated the plains of Nepal in the past has gone down owing to poaching and human encroachment of their habitat.

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Cow

Cow in northeast Texas defies 1 in 11.2 million odds and gives birth to 4 calves

Betsy Blaney
news.yahoo.com
Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:05 UTC
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This photo provided by Jimmy Barling shows his wife, Dora Rumsey-Barling among four newborn calves on March 16, 2015, near DelKalb, Texas
A cow in Northeast Texas has apparently defied great odds and given birth to four calves that have been named Eeny, Meeny, Miny and Moo.

Jimmy Barling said Monday that DNA tests will be done on tissue samples from the three bull calves and the one heifer calf to satisfy those who may question the births from one mother.

"We knew she was pregnant, but we didn't know she was going to do this," the 76-year-old Barling said. "This was a shock. This blew our minds."

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Themba & Thandi: A Rhino poacher's mutilation and a man's desperate attempt to save them

SFG
The San Francisco Globe
Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:19 UTC
Rhino Poaching Trade
Rangers find 3 rhinos, hacked and left for dead by poachers. The heroics of these very few men, will have a truly lasting impact.
From Youtube:

Nearly three years after surviving a brutal poaching attack that left two male rhinos dead, Thandi the rhino gave birth to a calf on 13 January 2015 at Kariega Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. With footage of Thandi and her calf captured moments after the birth, this film by photographer and filmmaker Adrian Steirn documents Thandi's journey from attack to recovery. This is story of the rhino that should never have been born.
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Frog

Animals CAN predict earthquakes: Scientists video behavioural changes as seismic activity increases

Sarah Griffiths
Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:19 UTC
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For the first time, scientists have filmed the behaviour of wild animals in Peru prior to a quake and believe their study could help improve short-term seismic forecasting. This still shows a Razor-billed curassow
For centuries there have been accounts of animals behaving bizarrely before earthquakes.

Now, for the first time, scientists have filmed the behaviour of wild animals prior to a quake and believe their study could help improve short-term seismic forecasting.

They found that animals in Peru - such as pumas and razor-billed curassow birds - ran for cover days before the event.

Researchers believe that the changes in behaviour may be linked to airborne ions.

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Revenge of the seals: Marine mammals seen killing and eating sharks off the coast of South Africa

Richard Gray
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:00 UTC
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© Chris FallowsScientists have reported multiple cases of cape fur seals attacking blue sharks and eating their guts off the coast of South Africa.
It brings new meaning to the phrase 'shark attack'.

While most people will be familiar with images of seals being violently smashed out of the water snatched in the jaws of a shark, it appears some are exacting their revenge on the ocean predators.

Scientists have reported multiple cases of cape fur seals attacking blue sharks off the coast of South Africa.

The seals, which are normally prey for great white sharks, have been seen attacking and killing medium-sized blue sharks, devouring their guts before leaving the rest of the carcass.

Divers also report seeing the fur seals attacking other species of shark and rays.
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Black Cat

Cougar kills 3 domestic animals in 2 weeks in Half Moon Bay, California


sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:46 UTC
A mountain lion.
© National Park ServiceA mountain lion.
Three animals were killed by a mountain lion in San Mateo County where reported sightings of the big cat have increased in nearly two weeks, county officials said.

The most recent sighting was on Friday night around 7:30 p.m., when deputies responded to a report of multiple mountain lion sightings in the 900 block of Miramontes Street in Half Moon Bay, county emergency officials said.

On Thursday, emergency officials said that since March 9, three animals were killed by a mountain lion in the area of Ranch Road West and Cloverdale Road in Pescadero, according to emergency officials.
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Elephant attacks 2 children and kills boy in Bangladesh


The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Sun, 29 Mar 2015 09:18 UTC
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Charging elephant.
A minor boy was killed and a girl injured by a wild elephant at Kalachand village in Chakaria upazila of the district yesterday.

The deceased is Delwar Hossain, 4, son of Md Yousuf of the village.

Police quoted victim's father Yousuf as saying that a wild elephant from the adjacent hills entered the village around 12:00noon. It attacked the kids while they were playing in the yard beside their houses, leaving Delwar dead on the spot and Aysha injured.

Critically injured Aysha, 5, daughter of Abdul Khaleque, was admitted to a clinic in the upazila headquarters, said Probhash Chandra Dhar, officer-in-charge of Chokoria Police Station.
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At least 6 fatal wild elephant attacks reported in China in 2014


english.cri.cn
Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:58 UTC
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© Forestry Bureau of Pu'er CityA group of wild Asian Elephants forage inside a corn field in Pu'er, south China's Yunnan Province.
There were at least six fatal wild elephant attacks last year in China, causing economic loss and some casualties, people.cn reports.

The improvement in ecological environment in recent years has largely stimulated the growth of wild Asian elephants, China's first-grade state protection animal. However, lacking enough food supplies and habitats, the wild Asian elephants are forced to flee to local farmland, inevitably causing damage to property.

In the past five years there were 37, 512 cases of wild elephant attacks with 54 casualties in Pu'er, south China's Yunnan Province.

Professor Chen Mingyong from the School of Life Sciences at Yunnan University said that failing to provide adequate food and habitats by local governments has attributed to the frequent wild elephant attacks.

Also many local governments were unable to compensate the victims promptly due to budget constraints and their unclear responsibilities defined by related law.
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Get off my back! Elephant tramples another mahout to death in India - third killing in less than a week


The New Indian Express
Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:54 UTC
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© New Indian ExpressThe elephant that killed its mahout being tethered to a tree at Chalingadu in Thrissur on Thursday
In yet another incident of growing unrest of elephants towards man especially during temple festival venues across the state, a mahout was trampled to death by a provoked elephant at Kaipamangalam, here, on Thursday.

This is the third such killing by captive elephants in the state in less than a week. Earlier, two people, including a mahout, were crushed to death by rampaging elephants in Alappuzha.

In the latest incident, the tusker 'Pallathu Vijayalakshmanan' turned violent and killed its mahout Sivasankaran, 64, of Poovathinkal, Kinasherry, during a temple festival at Kaipamangalam. According to police, the elephant turned violent when the man atop the elephant was trying to climb down along with the 'kolam'.

Comment: See also these similar recent reports: Second mahout to be killed by elephant within 5 days in Kerala, India

Elephant kills mahout in India

Temple mutt elephant tramples mahout to death in India

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