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Postby 82_28 » Mon May 21, 2018 6:45 pm

Monkey captured after escaping crate at San Antonio airport

Authorities say a monkey went bananas after escaping from its crate Monday at the San Antonio International Airport, CBS affiliate KENS-TV reports. The monkey made its escape as it was being transported from a plane to the baggage area.

San Antonio Police said officials cornered the animal inside a room at the airport around 3:45 p.m. local time.

American Airlines, the San Antonio Aviation Department and officials from the San Antonio Zoo all responded to the scene to help capture the monkey, who is en route to his new home, an American Airlines spokesperson said in a statement.

An airport employee told KENS-TV that employees recently "went wild" trying to chase a loose cat. "I can only imagine a monkey or baboon going around right now. I'm just glad we caught it and it's safe but it was pretty hectic for us at the airport today," she said.

Police said operations have returned to normal.


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Postby Cordelia » Sun Jun 17, 2018 11:13 am

Another Giant Python attack...


A woman went to check her corn — and was swallowed by a python


by Avi Selk June 16 at 12:46 PM

For the second time in barely more than a year, an Indonesian villager has been swallowed whole by a python.

Wa Tiba, 54, left her home on Muna island to visit her cornfield on Thursday night, according to the Jakarta Post.

The field was about a half mile from her house, surrounded by cliffs, caves and a certain number of reticulated pythons, the longest snakes in the world.

The snakes normally feed on smaller mammals. Attacks on humans are supposed to be as rare as winning the lottery and being struck by lightning at the same time, as Amy B Wang wrote for The Washington Post. Nevertheless, just such a horror took place on an adjacent island last year, when a man's body was extracted from a 23-foot-long python, shown in a gruesome YouTube video.

Tiba had been concerned about wild boars, not so much snakes, as she walked through her cornfield that night, the Jakarta Post reported. The pigs had been raiding the crops lately, thus the inspection.

When she had not returned by sunrise, her sister went to the field to look for her.

She found only Tiba's footprints, her flashlight, her machete and slippers.

In the morning on Friday, about 100 people from the village of Persiapan Lawela combed the fields, Agence France-Presse reported.

They found the snake a few dozen yards from Tiba's belongings. It was 23 feet long and so bloated it could barely move. A long bulge midway down its body had a foreboding look to it.

The villagers killed the snake, and laid it out on the ground. The villagers crowded around it, clamoring and crying and some making videos as a man knelt and carefully cut across the bulge with a machete.

He parted the snake flesh, and it was much as it had been on the other island a year earlier. Tiba lay intact inside the snake, clothed just as she had when she went to check the corn.

She probably didn't die inside the snake: A reticulated python secures its prey with a bite, then wraps its body around the victim, squeezing down until the victim cannot breathe, before consuming, according to the Associated Press.


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Merciful of the beast; I'd think being swallowed alive by a snake to be far worse than Jonah finding himself in the belly of a fish.

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Postby Elvis » Sat Jun 30, 2018 11:02 pm

There's an old joke that ends a little differently:

“It was staying close to me, rubbing against my legs, and was trying to climb up my legs to get me to pet her,” he told the station, adding that the animal seemed pretty good-natured.



...later, the cops sees the man with the pig in front of the museum. Cops says, 'I thought I told you to take that pig to the zoo!'

Man says, "I did! Then I took her to see a play and now we're going to the museum!"



...I'll let myself out. 8)
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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby Elvis » Sat Jun 30, 2018 11:09 pm

Recent baboon escape isn't the first time animals have broken loose from research facility

The Texas Biomedical Research Institute made national headlines after four baboons escaped an open-air enclosure Saturday night.

It wasn't the first time it's happened, though.

READ MORE: Baboons used 55-gallon barrel to escape from San Antonio research facility, officials say

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The next year, in 2010, two baboons successfully escaped their enclosure. They seriously injured a caretaker before they could be recovered.

After completing its investigation, the USDA fined the institute $25,714 for three violations of the Animal Welfare Act. Researchers complied with the agency's recommendations and fixed the locks on the enclosures.

READ MORE: USDA fines Texas Biomed for violations

Texas Biomedical Research Institute houses more than 2,500 animals for research purposes, 1,100 of which are baboons. In 2014, researchers scored a $2.7 million federal grant for research to help scientists test and develop drugs to combat diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's disease and obesity.

Last June, Texas Biomedical Research Institute and Southwest Research Institute teamed up to work on medicines to prevent the Ebola virus.

That baboons who escaped Saturday were returned to the enclosure within 30 minutes, and none of them were involved in recent test studies or infected with any diseases, according to a news release from the institute.

Click through the slideshow to learn more about the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.

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"none of them were involved in recent test studies or infected with any diseases"

...and if they had been? :shrug:



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Postby chump » Sat Jul 07, 2018 10:04 am


https://boingboing.net/2018/07/05/lions ... chers.html

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Three poachers who broke into a game reserve this week were eaten by lions, reports Newsweek.

They had intended to poach rhino, but turned out to be the prey.

“The only body part we found was one skull and one bit of pelvis, everything else was completely gone,” he said. “There is so little left that they don’t know exactly how many people were killed, we suspect three because we found three sets of shoes and three sets of gloves.” Fox also revealed that rhino poaching groups usually consist of three people.
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Postby Cordelia » Fri Aug 03, 2018 5:38 pm

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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby Cordelia » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:16 am


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg3ve9cmFoI

Herd of Vigilante Florida Cows Helps Police by Corralling Suspect

Meghan Overdeep

August 9, 2018

A herd of vigilante cows in Sanford, Florida, is making national headlines after they assisted local police in the capture of a suspected car thief last week.

Police told Click Orlando that they spotted a stolen Subaru SUV on August 6th and gave chase. The driver reportedly made it to Brevard County, where she crashed into a stop sign and slid into a ditch.

After coming to a stop, the driver and her female accomplice fled the car. One of the women hid in some nearby bushes, while the other made a run for it in an adjacent pasture—big mistake.

Using night vision, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office helicopter team was able to track her through the cow pasture where she ran, quite literally, into a herd of law-abiding cattle. Police looked on from above as 20 angry cows attempted to corral the invader.

Ultimately, thanks to the herd, the thief was arrested.

But that’s not where this story ends. The next day, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office shared aerial footage (below) of the suspect being pursued by the angry bovines, complete with audio, on social media. Unsurprisingly, it has since gone viral.

Richard Kondracki, the owner of the pasture, told Click Orlando that in all the decades he’s been keeping cows on his property, he’s never once seen them act aggressively towards a human.

“They panicked. The cows were nervous. That would make me panic — if all those big cows come running at you. They didn’t know them. They don’t know if they’re there to hurt them, or steal one of the babies,” Kondracki told Click Orlando.

“You don’t want to mess with it — any animal, whether it’s a cow, an elephant or a cat. You don’t mess with the babies,” Kondracki said.

The next time the police in Sanford are on the pursuit of a fugitive, no need to sound the alarm, just the cowbell.

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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby Cordelia » Tue Aug 28, 2018 1:47 pm

A lonely dolphin’s ‘sexual behaviors’ toward humans cause a French town to ban swimming

By Allyson Chiu

August 28 at 6:18 AM

People eager to spend the waning days of summer frolicking in the waters near a coastal town in northwest France might want to rethink their plans. It isn’t safe, according to local officials, who recently banned swimming and diving in the area.

But the danger threatening visitors to the beaches of Landevennec isn’t a vicious rip current or a shark — it’s a lonely, “lovelorn” male bottlenose dolphin nicknamed Zafar.

For months, Zafar has been known in the Bay of Brest for his unabashed playfulness, even allowing people to hold onto his dorsal fin as he takes them for rides, the Telegraph reported. But the dolphin’s interest in humans now appears to be driven by the need for company of an intimate nature, the French newspaper Ouest-France reported. “He is in heat,” one marine mammal expert told the news site.

Zafar has been seen trying to rub up against swimmers and boats or kayaks, Le Telegramme reported. In other instances, the dolphin prevented a female swimmer from returning to shore (she was later rescued by boat) and lifted another woman out of the water with his nose, according to the French news site.

While his name translates to “victory,” Zafar’s various attempts to satisfy his needs have not only fallen short but prompted Landevennec’s mayor, Roger Lars, to issue a bylaw banning swimming and diving near the village’s shoreline whenever Zafar is seen in the area, Ouest-France reported.

Visitors and locals, Lars said, were becoming “frightened” by Zafar’s behavior, according to Ouest-France.

“I issued the decree to preserve the safety of people,” he said. According to the Telegraph, people are also now “forbidden” to get within about 50 yards of the dolphin.

The “aggressive” and “pushy” antics are not unusual for a dolphin in Zafar’s situation, Elizabeth Hawkins, lead researcher with Dolphin Research Australia, told The Washington Post. Zafar is what researchers call a “social solitary dolphin,” meaning for some reason he has been isolated from other dolphins and is now a “social outcast,” Hawkins said.

The dolphin is “wanting, needing, yearning social contact from cohorts, and that need isn’t fulfilled,” she said. “It can try different dolphin behaviors toward humans to try and get that social fulfillment.”

But, Hawkins added, that’s when “strange behaviors can come about.”

Given how social dolphins are, Hawkins said, the animals seek to form and reinforce bonds, often using sexual behavior. For solitary male dolphins isolated from their society, rubbing themselves on objects or people has been observed as attempts to meet that biological need, she said.

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The “aggressive” and “pushy” antics are not unusual for a dolphin in Zafar’s situation, Elizabeth Hawkins, lead researcher with Dolphin Research Australia, told The Washington Post. Zafar is what researchers call a “social solitary dolphin,” meaning for some reason he has been isolated from other dolphins and is now a “social outcast,” Hawkins said.


Wouldn't be surprised if fed-up females in the pod banished him for inappropriate behavior & sexual harassment.

Edit to remove 'removed' video.
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Postby 82_28 » Tue Aug 28, 2018 11:32 pm

Yeah no shit right? Don't let us down, dolphins! Don't be gross.
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Postby Pele'sDaughter » Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:34 am

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... uare-video

Productivity came to a halt across New York City offices on Tuesday afternoon, as hordes of people eagerly followed the removal of 20,000 bees from a hotdog stand.

The bees had swarmed the hotdog stand, a block south of Times Square, around 1pm.

Thousands watched a Reuters livestream – the stand is located outside the news agency’s New York headquarters – and followed on Twitter as a police officer was called in to remove the bees. With a vacuum cleaner.

A section of the street at the corner of 42nd Street and 7th Avenue was closed as the delicate procedure took place.

Officers from the New York police department stood guard, some more willingly than others, as one of their colleagues donned a beekeeper’s hat and approached the hotdog stand.

The bees had gathered in a densely packed, roughly 15-square-foot clump, and the unidentified officer, who wore a white jacket, thick gloves and has a moustache, proceeded to vacuum up the bees. The bee cleansing took about 40 minutes, much of which was watched online.

By around 3pm, the officer, who told journalists he “has training”, had removed the bulk of the bees, but many remained in the area, swarming around a selection of soft drinks displayed on the hotdog stall.

Asked if it was safe to remain in the area, a uniformed police officer pointed to his colleague and said: “He’s sucking them up.” He added: “There’ll be no more problems.”

Andrew Coté, who runs the New York City beekeepers’ association, had answered a call from the NYPD and was watching as the bees were removed. Removal by vacuum cleaner – it was a specially adapted vacuum cleaner – was common, Coté said. He estimated there were 20,000 bees on the umbrella, but said: “You’ve got to count the legs and divide by six to be sure.”

Coté said of the bees’ motivation: “I think they wanted a hotdog.”

Under further questioning, Coté clarified that he was joking about the bees wanting a hotdog, and instead this late-August swarm had likely occurred because of an ill-managed beehive. He said there were a number of hives within a block of the hotdog stand.

By 3.15pm police had re-opened the street, although a number of bees were still on the scene. Coté chastised the Guardian for ducking as some of the bees flew past.

“You won’t die,” Coté said. “Unless you’re anaphylactic.”
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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Sep 19, 2018 5:02 pm

Mosquitoes are eating plastic. Why that's a big problem.

Ashley MayUpdated 1:46 p.m. ET Sept. 19, 2018
Arm yourself with knowledge so you aren't mosquito bait this summer.

Young mosquitoes who eat even small pieces of plastic could be contaminating other insects and mammals, according to new research.

Authors of a paper – published in The Royal Society journal Biology Letters on Wednesday – found that when a mosquito larva eats microplastic, that plastic can remain in the insect's body into adulthood. So, the microplastic could then be transferred to whatever might eat that mosquito, including birds.

The U.K. researchers conducted their study in a lab, but they say it's not a stretch to think that plastic could move up the food chain in this way.

“The implication is that you can have plastics at the bottom of the pond that are now going up into the air and being eaten by spiders and bats and animals that normally wouldn’t have access to that plastic,” author Amanda Callaghan at England's University of Reading told the Independent.

The microplastics used in the study were small latex beads, and authors noted smaller beads transferred more easily than larger beads into the mosquito's adult stage.

More: That bottled water you paid $3 for may contain tiny particles of plastic: Study

"Our study was a proof of concept in the laboratory," Callaghan told USA TODAY. "One of the next steps will be to sample lakes with plastics and mosquitoes to measure this."

Microplastic is common in waterways worldwide. Even arctic ice is choked with a record amount of the pollutant.

In an effort to reduce microplastics, some countries including areas of the U.S. and the U.K., have banned microbeads found in toothpastes, face scrubs and shower gels.
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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby Cordelia » Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:15 am

2013 video from Norway.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq0cjgn5Um0

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Postby Cordelia » Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:17 am

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Poor birds :(
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