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Bear attacks teenager in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park


knoxnews.com
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:08 UTC
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Black bear
Officials with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have closed several trails and backcountry campsites in the Hazel Creek section of the park because of a bear attack Saturday night.

According to the park, a 16-year-old Athens, Ohio, boy was pulled from his hammock at about 10:30 p.m. by a bear and injured at backcountry campsite 84, which is 4.5 miles from the Fontana Lake shoreline near Hazel Creek in North Carolina. The father was able to drive the bear off from the area, officials said.

Immediately following the incident, the boy and his father hiked to the lakeshore where they were transported across the lake to Cable Cove boat dock by campers at backcountry campsite 86 who had a boat. Graham County Rescue EMS transported them to a landing zone where the injured party was flown by Mountain Area Medical Airlift to Mission Hospital in Asheville at approximately 3 a.m. Sunday.
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Massive fish kill at Stanley, Hong Kong


ejinsight.com
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:56 UTC
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© Google Map, Apple DailyThousands of fish stuggle in the water off Stanley. Many washed ashore dead or dying (inset).
Tens of thousands of dead white fish have washed ashore in Hong Kong's Stanley district but authorities don't know what killed them.

The massive fish kill covered a big swath of St. Stephen's Bay in a silvery hue, Apple Daily reported Monday.

Most were sardines, thousands of which were spotted struggling in the water.

A man, surnamed Chui, described the scene as "breathtaking", with the water covered in a film of silver from dead or dying fish for about 30 minutes on Sunday.

He said he tried to push some of the fish back out to the water but there were just too many of them.

Most had died, he said.
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Humpback whale dies off Scotland's north-east coast

Chris Foote
news.stv.tv
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:46 UTC
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© STVHumpback: Whale died after becoming tangled in rope.
A humpback whale has died after becoming tangled in rope off Scotland's north-east coast.

A rescue was launched after a fisherman spotted the whale near the village of Helmsdale on Thursday.

A British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) team was scrambled, but choppy seas and stormy weather hampered the search.

The whale is believed to have drowned on Saturday and its body was recovered by the BDMLR on Sunday.

A BDMLR spokeswoman said: "The body was retrieved yesterday and it was confirmed dead on Saturday.

"It was brought back and pathologists from the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) will perform a post-mortem.

"It was entangled in rope which could have made the whale weak and unable to feed and drown."
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Wild elephant kills 4 more people in Bhagalpur, India

Kumar Rajesh
The Times of India
Sun, 07 Jun 2015 12:06 UTC
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Wild (bloody livid?) elephant
Four more persons, including two women, a man and a teenager, were trampled and killed by a wild elephant running amok on Saturday morning at Sabour-Goradih area in Bhagalpur district. The elephant killed two persons on Thursday. A few others were also injured while running away from the tusker.

The four deceased were identified as 70-year old Makri Devi (Rajpur village), 15-year-old Mohd Ehshan (Banshi Tekar village), 80-year-old Parsadi Tanti (Jhurkhuria village) and 75-year-old Shrista Devi (Fatehpur village). The place where the incidents occurred on Saturday is 5-8km away from Bhagalpur city.

Several houses were also destroyed in fresh attack on the houses of villagers despite the forest department officials and employees sweating out to either capture or facilitate the escape of the tusker towards adjoining Godda district in Jharkhand via Sanhaula block in Bhagalpur district.

Comment: See also: Wild elephant kills two in Bhagalpur, India

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Wild elephant kills two in Bhagalpur, India

Kumar Rajesh
The Times of India
Sat, 06 Jun 2015 18:57 UTC
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Wild elephant
In two separate incidents, two persons were trampled to death by a wild elephant. The deceased includes a 65-year-old woman and a 60 year old man. Crops in the agriculture field besides thatched houses of some of the villagers were also damaged by the wild elephant.

The incidents occurred at remote Dayalpur and Taufir villages under Kahalgaon sub-division in Bhagalpur district late Thursday evening. According to local sources, the wild elephant strayed into Dayalpur village under Antichak police station under Kahalgaon sub-division on Thursday evening. The villagers, on sudden appearance of wild elephant into their village, started raising an alarm. Out of panic, they started hooting to scare away the wild elephant.

Sources said someone from the crowd also fired some shots in the air to scare the elephant away. It all resulted in angering the wild elephant making it ran berserk through the village areas.
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Pit bull terrier viciously attacks four year old in Lithia, Florida

Cameron Polom
abcactionnews.com
Sat, 06 Jun 2015 18:05 UTC
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4 year old Hunter Edwards
A four year old Lithia boy is facing a long road to recovery after being viciously attacked by a pit bull.

It happened earlier this week at the boys home.

"He was down on his stomach and his legs were curled up in a ball and the dog was on the back of his head," said Andrew Edwards, Hunters Father.

A Horrifying site for any parent, on Tuesday 4 year old Hunter Edwards was rushed to the hospital bleeding from the head.

"He never really got me that good, I was just trying to fight him off," said Edwards, pointing to his bandaged arm.

Disabled Army veteran Andrew Edwards says on that day his son hunter followed him to the back yard. Edwards was looking for a tool in his shed and hunter decided to pay the family dog Abe a visit. Thats when the dog got a little excited and jumped on the little boy.
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Woman forced to kill her own pit bull terrier during attack in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Samantha Morgan
kplctv.com
Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:13 UTC
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Pit bull terier
A 48-year-old woman was forced to kill her own dog after it attacked her as it was fighting with another dog.

According to the East Baton Rouge Animal Shelter, the incident happened Thursday at a home located on Confederate Avenue, which is located near Tiger Bend. It happened shortly before 5 p.m.

"The woman owned two pit bulls," said Hilton Cole, Director for the EBR Shelter. "The two dogs began fighting each other and she had to defend herself from her own dog when she tried to break up the fight."

Cole says the woman stabbed the dog after it latched on to her left arm. The woman was transported to the hospital by EMS for treatment of her injury."

"It was self-defense," Cole said. "Unfortunately, we see cases like this where a dog just explodes and loses control of its self and attacks its owner.

"We always emphasis that dogs are predators and even though they've been domesticated, you have to be careful around them," Cole added, "especially the bigger, stronger breeds."

The dog that attacked the woman was dead when officers arrived. The second dog was seized by the shelter with the permission of the owner.

Both dogs were males.
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Wild boar enters village house and injures 6 in Bareilly, India

Ankit Yadav
The Times of India
Sat, 06 Jun 2015 16:45 UTC
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Wild boar.
Panic gripped Pandari Nomhala village, under Hafizganj police station, on Friday when a wild boar entered into the house of a local farmer and injured six people. Four people, who were severely injured, have been admitted to a private hospital. While the animal was chased away by the villagers, forest department has ordered an inquiry into the incident.

On Friday, the boar entered into the house of Janki Prasad, a local farmer, in Pandari Nomhala village. When Prasad tried to scare the animal away with a bamboo stick, it pounced on the farmer and ate his leg.

When his son Manoj intervened, the animal injured him too.
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Teenager survives black bear attack in Amherst, Massachusetts


boston.cbslocal.com
Sat, 06 Jun 2015 16:10 UTC
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© WBZ-TVA bear attacked a teen in Amherst
A 17-year-old had a frightening encounter with a bear in Western Massachusetts over the weekend.

Carly Hall came face-to-face with a black bear on Tracey Circle in Amherst Saturday night.

"It was really scary," she said. "We were in the wrong place at the wrong time."

The Belchertown teenager was walking a dog with her friends when the dog started barking frantically. That's when the group spotted something in a neighbor's yard.

"And then we realized it was a bear," Hall said. "We started to back up slowly."

The bear chased after Hall and the dog, getting close enough to leave scratches on her back. She managed to get on to the roof of a parked car, and the bear continued after the dog.

"I was just trying to get away from it," Hall said. "I think I was actually pretty lucky because it wasn't a bad scratch at all."

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Black bear attacks man in Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico

Daniel Borunda
El Paso Times
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 15:59 UTC
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Standing black bear.
A black bear attacked a 55-year-old man Monday afternoon in the Lincoln National Forest east of Capitan, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish said Tuesday.

The man was searching for antler sheds in thick brush when he surprised the bear, which then charged at him. The man received deep scratches to his chest and a bite to a leg before the bear ran off into the woods, the Department of Game and Fish said in a news release.

The injured man used a two-way radio to call his search partner, officials said. The two walked to their vehicle and drove to the Lincoln County Medical Center in Ruidoso. The man was treated at the hospital and released.

The attack occurred near the Baca Campground off Forest Service Road 57, officials said. On Tuesday, Game and Fish officers were looking for the bear so it can be tested for rabies.
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