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Update: Hunt for killer bear in Poland is cancelled after autopsy discovers its 'victim' had actually been murdered


Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:45 UTC
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Stanislaw Puchala, 61, was found dead with marks of having been mauled by a bear in southern Poland
* Polish man found dead and mauled by a bear in the woods

* Autopsy finds man had been killed before bear attacked the body

* Police in south Poland believes Stanislaw Puchala, 61, was murdered

A bear has escaped by the skin of its teeth after it was found not to be responsible for the killing of a Polish man.

Stanislaw Puchala, 61, was found dead with marks of having been mauled by a bear near the village of Olszanica in the Bieszczady Mountains, southern Poland.

The village hunting party sent out to shoot the bear was called off when an autopsy revealed Mr Puchala had been murdered.
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Massachusetts conservationist discovers extremely rare blue leopard frog

Don Lyman
The Boston Globe
Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:51 UTC
Blue leopard frog
Conservation scientist Jacob Kubel with the blue leopard frog, rare compared with green and beige specimens.
Late this summer, Jacob Kubel, a conservation scientist with the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife's Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, was slogging through a Sudbury wetland, searching for a new species of leopard frog, when something unusual caught his eye.

"The frogs were quick and blended in with their surroundings," Kubel said in an e-mail, "so we were basically chasing blurs and moving vegetation."

Leopard frogs, which are named for their dark spots, are usually green, beige, or some combination of those colors, but one of the blurs Kubel saw through the stems of sedge and grass appeared to be bright blue.

"I couldn't be sure of the exact color," said Kubel, "so I just thought to myself, 'Oh, I have a brightly colored one here - he should be easier to chase down.' "

Kubel said he didn't think much of it at first: Individual animals in many wildlife species, after all, vary greatly from one another. But when he captured the 2-inch frog and looked at it up close, he realized it was something he - in fact, most everyone - had never seen before: a blue-colored leopard frog.
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Light Sabers

North Carolina teenager saves toddler from pit bull

Khier Casino
Opposing Views
Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
Colton Hartley
A North Carolina teen is being hailed as a hero for saving a toddler who was being attacked by a dog.

T.J. Blake, of Caldwell County, and her grandson Eli, 2, had seen the dog as they were making their way to a neighbor's house last Thursday.

As they were walking back home, Blake says the dog lunged through a screened window and latched on to the 2-year-old boy, MyFox8.com reports. Blake was also scratched on her arm.
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Attention

Deer crashes through window into furniture store in Cedar Falls, Iowa

Ben Hooper
upi.com
Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:01 UTC
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The owner of an Iowa furniture store said security cameras recorded a deer running buck wild through the store before leaving through the back door.

Deb Emmert, owner of Simpsons Furniture in Cedar Falls, said the store had just opened Saturday when the buck crashed through a window and started running around the store.

Security camera footage shows the deer running among the furniture before using his antlers to push open the back door and make his exit.

"They go, 'Deer! Deer! Deer!' And they go, 'Get out of the way!' And I'm just like ... I didn't know which way to go to get out of the way of the deer," Emmert said. "We're just laughing. We're just laughing, especially when we saw him just nonchalantly opened the door and was like, 'OK, done with my shopping.'"

There were no injuries from the deer's shopping trip Saturday and the store remained open while a crew cleaned up the mess.

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Attention

Pack of wild boar attack woman in suburb of Stockholm, Sweden


rcinet.ca
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:28 UTC
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© N. A. Naseer/ Wikimedia Commons A wild boar group.
A young woman was left shaken after being chased by a pack of wild boar in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden.

Stocholm county police write on their website that the woman was out walking in the evening when she met more than a dozen wild boars.

When the surprised woman turned tail and fled the boars gave chase. She luckily met a group of young people who were able to scare away the pack of pursuing porkers.
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Attention

At least six people attacked and injured by a group of wild boar in India


The Statesman (India)
Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:10 UTC
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A group of 5 Wild Boar
In the latest incident of man-wildlife conflict in villages lying in close proximity of Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary, at least six persons including two women and an infant were injured today following attack by hordes of wild boars in Jamboo village under Mahakalpada police station jurisdiction.

As the news of animal attack spread, people rose in protest and demonstrated in front of the local forest office.

The agitating people were demanding the launch of foolproof measures to curb the intrusion of animals like wild boar, crocodiles and spotted deer into places of human habitation.

Three persons including a 15-year-old girl, a 55-year-old woman were injured while three others sustained injuries following the stampede that ensued as the wild boars chased the people. All of them, who were hospitalised, are out of danger.
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Health

Wolf Lake man attacked and injured by elk at campground in Muskegon, Michigan

Heather Lynn Peters
mlive.com
Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:02 UTC
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A 59-year-old man was injured by an elk at the Wolf Lake Resort & Campground in a bizarre Monday, Oct. 6 incident.

An Egelston Township fire official confirmed the attack happened Monday evening between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the resort located at 5451 Harding Ave. The elk is housed at an adjacent deer and elk farm owned by the same people who own the campground.

A woman who spoke with an MLive Muskegon Chronicle reporter by phone from the campground office refused to confirm the incident. She denied it ever happened.

But the fire official confirmed the fire department was sent there on a medical call and the man had been injured by the elk severely enough that he required hospital treatment.
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Wolf

Dingoes attack two women joggers on Fraser Island, Queensland


abc.net.au
Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:45 UTC
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© AAP: Jim ShrimptonTourists are advised not to approach dingoes on Fraser Island.
Dingoes have attacked two women while they were jogging on Fraser Island off south-east Queensland.

Paramedics were called to Yidney Rocks on the island about 7:00am on Sunday.

A woman was treated for leg injuries and taken to Hervey Bay hospital.

Doreen Cash from the Yidney Rocks Beachfront Apartments said the two women were staying at the units.

Comment: See also: Three dingoes attack man on Fraser Island beach, Australia

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Attention

Eight-metre dead whale washes onto rocks in Batemans Bay, Australia

Kerrie O'Connor
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:31 UTC
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© Haberlah familyDavid and Siwi Haberlah watch as the whale is washed ashore near the Clyde River.
An eight-metre dead whale has been washed onto rocks at the mouth of the Clyde River in Batemans Bay.

Canberra visitor David Haberlah saw the whale on Saturday afternoon, just minutes before waves dumped the mammal in an area known as North Head beach, near Yellow Rock.

With his four-year-old daughter, Siwa, the geologist hurried to the scene.

"I was sitting at the far end and I saw something white floating," Mr Haberlah said. "I thought 'wow, this looks like a massive balloon'. I had a closer look and saw one of the fins come up and realised it was a whale.

"I went running back and Siwa and I went straight to look. It was belly up. It was already dead."
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Wolf

Wild dogs kill 4 in Mexico City park

Olga Rodriguez
My Fox DC
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:37 UTC
Mexico City - Wild dogs mauled and killed four people whose bodies were found over the past two weeks in a park on the edge of Mexico City, authorities said Monday. In one case, a teenage girl frantically called her sister with her cellphone to plead for help as the attack took place.

Neighbors of the Cerro de la Estrella, a partly wooded, hilltop park surrounded by the city's poor and populous Iztapalapa district, first found the bodies of a 26-year-old woman and a 1-year-old child in the area on Dec. 29, authorities in Mexico's capital said.

The woman, Shunashi Mendoza, was missing her left arm, and prosecutors said that both she and the boy had bled to death and been partially eaten.

Then on Friday visitors to the same park found the bodies of a teenage couple who had also bled to death.

"Experts have established that due to the gravity of the wounds, at least 10 dogs were involved in each attack," Mexico City prosecutors said in a statement.

In the second attack, Alejandra Ruiz, 15, and her boyfriend Samuel Martinez, 16, had gone to the park Friday afternoon.

The girl called her sister Diana Ruiz at around 7 p.m. pleading for help.

"Several dogs are attacking us, help me!" the girl screamed. The call then stopped.

Ruiz told Milenio Television she thought her sister was joking and still doesn't believe her sister was killed by dogs despite the call.
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