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Thousands of flying foxes drop down dead from trees in heatwave, Australia

Dominic Gover, Hannah Osborne
International Business Times
Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:40 UTC
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Looks like something out of a horror movie. Up to 5000 bats drop from trees during heatwave. http://t.co/JOGW3sQcQ3 pic.twitter.com/8RpTCIIBD7
- lorraine (@lorrainewhat) November 18, 2014
Soaring temperatures sent more than 5,000 dead bats falling to the ground in New South Wales, Australia.

Flying fox bat carcasses littered streets in the town of Casino after the temperature hit 44 degrees Celsius.

Some residents mounted a last-ditch effort to save the remaining bats by hosing them down with water.

A clear-up operation has been launched to remove the decomposing remains by the local council before the stench becomes over-powering.

Photographer Dee Hartin captured the mass deaths. She told Huffington Post UK: "What I saw when I got there was beyond belief. There were hundreds of them all over the ground everywhere I looked.
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Bizarro Earth

More strange animal behavior: Seals caught raping penguins in the Antarctic

Matt Walker
BBC Earth
Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:44 UTC
seal and penguin
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Things are heating up in the cold climes of the sub-Antarctic. On a remote, and mostly desolate island, seals have been caught engaging in an extreme form of sexual behaviour.

Specifically, they have been trying to have sex with penguins.

More than one fur seal has been caught in the act, on more than one occasion.

And it's all been captured on film, with details being published in the journal Polar Biology.
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Attention

Hyena attack leaves 3 boys injured in Kenya

Kipkemei Maritim
hivisasa.com
Wed, 12 Nov 2014 21:45 UTC
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© kids.britannica.comA hyena. KWS official has vowed to carry out a medical examination on the hyena to ascertain the cause of the attack.
Three boys were seriously injured and 5 goats killed after a hyena attached Amalo village in Olenguruone division today.

The attacked occurred as the boys were taking their goats to graze in the nearby Greenland field next to Olenguruone town.

Speaking in Molo hospital after visiting the victims, Kenya Wildlife Service warden in charge of Amalo/Olenguruone ward Kipkorir Bernard Tuei said the three boys were attacked as they tried to flee from the hyena after it killed their goats.

"The hyena attacked the goats on the grazing field and killed at least 5 of them and left other goats with injuries. This is not normal and we suspect the hyena may be suffering from behavioral change or a certain disease," he said.

The warden vowed to establish exactly what could have caused the abnormal act after carrying out a medical examination on the hyena's blood sample.
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Attention

Farmer killed and woman injured in bear attack at farm in Madavu, India


news.chennaionline.com
Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:16 UTC
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A wild bear was shot dead by police Monday after it killed a farmer and grievously injured another person at a farm near Madhugiri, a police official said. "We had to shoot the bear dead when it tried to attack other villagers of Chilanahalli as firing gun shots in the air failed to drive it away from the field where it killed farmer Somanna, 36, and grievously injured Thimmanna, 55, earlier in the day," Tumakuru police superintendent Raman Gupta told IANS.

The shocking incident occurred about 70km from here and 140km from Bengaluru when the victim (Somanna) went to his farm where the 12-year-old bear was hiding in the paddy field.

The bear killed Somanna on the spot.
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Attention

Wild boar gores boy to death and injures woman in Vietnam

Nguyen Chung
Thanh Nien News
Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:08 UTC
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© Nguyen ChungThe site where a wild boar allegedly attacked a 15-year-old boy in Khanh Hoa Province on Saturday.
A wild boar allegedly gored a 15-year-old boy to death and injured another woman in a village in central Vietnam on Saturday.

Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, police chief of Khanh Hiep Commune in Khanh Hoa Province, told Thanh Nien the incident may have taken place around 3:30 pm when Nguyen Van Dai, 15, was fishing at a pond in Hon Lay Village.

No one saw what happened but by the time local residents found Dai, he was already dead in the pond with multiple injuries to his thighs, groin and hips.

Tuan assumed that the boar attacked Dai, who tried to flee but instead fell into the water.
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Attention

Elderly woman dies after wild boar attack in Morocco


The Moroccan Times.
Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:57 UTC
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An old Moroccan woman passed away in the small village called Tizki Issafen located in the suburbs of Tata after that she was attacked by a wild boar and, above all, did not receive the necessary medical treatment once she was taken to a local health center nearby (Moustawsaf Sihhi).

According to the local branch of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights in Tata, "soon after the attack, the women was taken to a local health center, but she could not be saved due to negligence."

The Moroccan Association for Human Rights in Tata made it crystal clear in a report it released on the sidelines of this tragic death "that the women may have been saved if she had received the necessary medical treatment upon her arrival to the local health center."

The Human Rights body is calling upon the authorities to open an investigation on what it called "a tragic death that came as a result of medical negligence."
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Attention

Elephant tramples handler to death in Thailand

Sara Malm
Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:51 UTC
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© ASTVPosing happily at the start of the ride
A routine jungle trek turned into tragedy when an elephant killed his handler and ran off with two tourists in south-west Thailand.

Meaw the bull elephant is believed to have been in musth when he suddenly threw off his handler, trampled him to death, and disappeared into the jungle with a Russian woman and her nine-year-old daughter still on his back.

Meaw was discovered nearly two miles away from the resort in Phang Nga, 310 miles south of Bankok, and had to be tranquilized so the woman and her daughter could climb off.
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Attention

Huge whale beached in southern Nicaragua


news.yahoo.com
Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:10 UTC
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© AFP /Inti OconPeople try to help a stranded whale at Popoyo beach, 35km from Rivas, Nicaragua on November 14, 2014
A huge whale was stranded Friday on a white sand beach on Nicaragua's southern Pacific coast, despite efforts by dozens of tourists and residents to get it back to sea.

The whale, estimated at 18 meters (59 feet) long, beached itself Friday morning at Popoyo beach, in the town of Tola, some 111 kilometers (70 miles) south of the capital, according to the Environment Ministry's delegate in the region, Mario Rodriguez.

More than 50 people -- from Nicaragua and elsewhere -- spent the day trying to get the whale back into deeper waters, but gave up in exhaustion as the sun went down.
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Wolf

Burnley teen narrowly cheats death after family dog attacks, UK

Michael Morrison
Lancashire Telegraph
Sat, 15 Nov 2014 17:27 UTC
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Never more appropriate?
A Burnley schoolgirl cheated death after being bitten by the family dog - narrowly missing one of her main arteries.

The 14-year-old was at home in Harling Street when the Staffordshire bull terrier attacked.

It sunk its teeth into her groin area, missing her femoral artery by millimetres. The dog was expected to be put down following the attack.
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Wolf

Another toddler savaged: One-year-old boy attacked by Labrador at park in French Valley, California


Redlands Daily Facts
Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:43 UTC
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The family of a 1-year-old boy who was attacked by a dog in Riverside County on Nov. 14, 2014, provided this photo. In it the boy is seen at a Riverside County hospital with his father.
A six-year-old Labrador mix was impounded from a residence in unincorporated French Valley today, in connection with a dog attack that left a one-year-old boy with severe injuries to his face, authorities said.

The boy, a month shy of his second birthday, remains hospitalized after being bitten as he played near his mother and a friend at Primrose Park on Cloche Drive, sometime after 3 p.m. Friday.

A witness initially reported the unattended dog might be a Rottweiler, but today the mother's friend pointed out the animal to Riverside County Animal Services Sgt. Lesley Huennekens, who is investigating the incident. The dog, Dexter, which was properly licensed, vaccinated for rabies, neutered and micro- chipped, was taken into custody about 3 p.m. from a home on Starkey Court, animal control officials said.
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