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Postby American Dream » Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:27 am

Zoöpolis

Jennifer Wolch conceptualizes an urban theory that takes nonhumans seriously.

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In Animal Geographies: Place, Politics, and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands, published by Verso in 1998, editors Jody Emel and Jennifer Wolch bring together a set of essays that rethink animal-human relations from geographical perspectives. In their introduction, Emel and Wolch write:

The plight of animals worldwide has never been more serious than it is today. Each year, by the billions, animals are killed in factory farms; poisoned by toxic pollutants and waste; driven from their homes by logging, mining, agriculture, and urbanization; dissected, re-engineered, and used as spare body-parts; and kept in captivity and servitude to be discarded as soon as their utility to people has waned. This reality is mostly obscured by the progressive elimination of animals from everyday human experience, and by the creation of a thin veneer of civility surrounding human-animal relations...

The premise of Animal Geographies is that animals have been so indispensable to the structure of human affairs and so tied up with our visions of progress and the good life that we have been unable to (even try to) fully see them. Their very centrality prompted us to simply look away and to ignore their fates. But human practices now threaten the animal world and the entire global environment as never before. Our own futures are on the line too. Hence we have an intellectual responsibility as well as an ethical duty to consider the lives of animals closely...


In the excerpt below, Jennifer Wolch conceptualizes an urban theory that takes nonhumans seriously.

"[W]ithout the recognition that the city is of and within the environment, the wilderness of the wolf and the moose, the nature that most of us think of as natural cannot survive, and our own survival on the planet will come into question."


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Postby liminalOyster » Thu Nov 23, 2017 1:41 pm

The Turkeys Not on Your Plate: They’re Out Back, Climbing the Roof
By KIRK JOHNSONNOV. 21, 2017

For most Americans, turkeys come in plastic, from supermarkets. Their feathers are gone. Their gobble has been silenced. They are certainly not scaring the bejesus out of your dog, or attacking your car because they have seen a reflection of themselves in the grillwork and wrongly perceived an enemy worthy of attack.

It turns out that genuine, free-range wild turkeys — not to be confused with the farm-raised kind that most people will overcook on Thursday — are increasingly finding their free range to include suburbs from New England to California and lots of spots between.

Human-turkey conflicts are on the rise.

A few weeks before Thanksgiving last year, for example, Ashley Kruse noticed that glass from a second-story window of her house in Council Bluffs, Iowa, had shattered onto her driveway. She walked upstairs to find a room covered in blood and turkey feathers. A turkey had smashed its way inside, for reasons only a turkey could say.

“He left a mess, but he was no longer there,” said Ms. Kruse, who works for the city. “It was disgusting and hilarious at the same time.”

The turkey-trashed room had to be repainted and recarpeted, she said.

As a nation, we have done this to ourselves. Starting in the early 1950s, wild turkeys were reintroduced into states where they had fallen on hard times as their habitat shrunk, and newly introduced — often with enthusiastic state participation — into places like the Pacific Northwest, where they had never existed in nature.

Mark Hatfield, a wildlife biologist with the National Wild Turkey Federation, a turkey advocacy group, said the effort may well rank as one of the most ambitious wildlife programs in the nation’s history, with more than 20,000 wild birds trapped and moved across state lines and 200,000 other birds moved to new spots within their own states in just the last 30 years or so.

Every state but Alaska now has a hunting season on wild turkeys, which have an estimated population of about 6.2 million across the nation, up from about 1.3 million in the mid-1970s.

“One thing that works in favor of the wild turkeys is their adaptability,” Mr. Hatfield said.

Adaptable is one word for them. An invading force bent on total, if sometimes muddled, global domination is closer to what the Pajerski family of St. Anthony, Minn., has experienced.

When Sheila Pajerski’s youngest child, M.J., was 3 years old, he looked out the window of the family home outside Minneapolis and began yelling for his father. “Daddy, Daddy, there’s something outside!” he said.

Twenty-one turkeys had settled on the backyard playset. The animals stayed a half-hour, then left.

Wild turkeys, relatively new to the suburbs, do not always know how to behave. Sometimes they climb on the roofs of houses, which, it seems, can freak people out. Twenty to thirty pounds (smaller for females) of clattering, gobbling assertiveness on slate makes a racket. Other times they descend as a flock to roost on back fences or high in trees, quietly or often not-so-quietly waiting for dinner, or a cue to action, like something from a Hitchcock film.

Their sense of traffic laws can also be unsettling. “In the early spring when the snow is just melting, turkeys will sometimes go where there’s intersections, where there’s a four-way stop,” said Cynthia Osmundson, regional wildlife manager for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

“They seem confused but they also don’t want to move. That creates problems,” she said.

Texas has the most turkeys in the nation, with an estimated population of half a million, followed by Alabama, Kansas and Wisconsin. As the birds vanished from most of their range in the early 20th century, they held strong in a few places: Missouri, New York, South Carolina. So many of the modern descendants, spread far and wide through turkey-loving relocation efforts, are transplants from those states or from other states that rebuilt their populations quickly and had birds to share.

“They’ve got it made — all the habitat they want and very little predation,” said Madonna Luers, a spokeswoman for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

In Boston and its suburbs, where nuisance complaints have soared in recent years, wild birds stumble into the streets in front of cars or relieve themselves in doorways. Others gaze at length at their reflections in storefront windows.

“We’ve seen them go from being a novelty, a rarity, to now it’s just a normality,” said David Scarpitti, a wildlife biologist with the state of Massachusetts.

Some residents have emerged from their homes to see “a dozen turkeys standing on the back railing,” leaving feces on the porches, he said.

“They are social and noisy animals, and there’s usually a lot of vocalization going on,” he said. “It could be 20 birds gobbling their heads off at 3:30 in the morning, and not everyone appreciates that.”

Hunting in most urban areas is also not an option, though the city of Council Bluffs in Iowa has recently allowed bowhunting within city limits in an effort to control the birds.

Washington State has also given up on moving turkeys that become nuisances. Their numbers are so large that it started to seem like shoveling against a blizzard, Ms. Luers said.

The town of Brookline, near Boston, now has a tutorial on turkey life and psychology on its website.

“Wild turkeys have a ‘pecking order’ and people who act fearfully will be treated as subordinates,” the site advises.

If you are approached by a turkey, the website says, “do not back away or turn your back.” Rather, it says, “Step toward the turkey and act confidently.”

That is sometimes easier said than done.

During mating season, large groups of turkeys in Omaha have a frustrating habit of blocking Dodge Street, a main thoroughfare, during the middle of the morning rush hour. When that happens, Laura Stastny is often called in to clear the way.

“I’ll go straight to the male and shoo him off the road, and then I shoo everyone else off the road,” said Ms. Stastny, the executive director of Nebraska Wildlife Rehab.

She said the turkeys “generally cooperate,” but it takes a self-assured approach to scare off the birds. “I’m usually more confident than the turkey,” she said.

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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby Cordelia » Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:08 pm

IN PICTURES: Angry turkeys attack journalist

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Turkeys Terrorize Town, Attacking Residents of Foxboro, Mass.

Residents in Foxboro, Massachusetts, say a group of wild turkeys is terrorizing the town, and they are concerned after several people reported being chased and attacked.

The bold birds are often found in the wooded areas of Foxboro, but lately, they have been spotted in more populated areas, including Mechanic Street.

Debra Sabourin said she was out for an afternoon walk last week when a trio of turkeys started following her.

"One of them actually flapped his wings, jumped off the ground and dropkicked me with both of his feet," Sabourin said.

For Franken, a Rising Trajectory, and Then the Accusations

Sabourin said she was screaming as the turkeys were pecking at her legs. Eventually, a neighbor noticed and helped her fend them off by throwing boots at the birds from her porch.

"I just chucked the first set and it didn't quite work they were still going," Meg Nelson said. "So I tried the other boot and they backed off a little bit."

However, the birds have not backed off completely. NECN was there as Foxboro Animal Control received another complaint about the turkeys. Thursday morning they showed up at an elderly complex.

Animal Control Officer Sue Thibedeau, who has received more than three dozen calls about the birds, says there is a right way to approach the turkeys so they scatter.

"They can be intimidating but when people retreat or run for the it makes them bolder," Thibedeau said.

Thibedeau suspects someone is feeding the turkeys, which makes them less afraid of humans. She is asking anyone who might be feeding them to stop and to report aggressive interactions with the birds to police.

It is against Massachusetts law to transfer wildlife. The town could ultimately decide to kill the birds who are causing the problems, but officials say there is not enough of a danger to the community to do that yet.

https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/T ... 76881.html



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Postby Cordelia » Sun Dec 17, 2017 8:36 am

Third attack by marine mammal in San Francisco's Aquatic Park prompts swimming ban

Rong-Gong Lin II and Brittny MejiaContact Reporters

December 15, 2017

A third attack by a sea mammal in San Francisco in a week has prompted officials to ban swimming in the Aquatic Park Cove on the northern edge of the city’s waterfront.

“The Aquatic Park Cove has been closed to swimming due to reports of an aggressive marine mammal biting swimmers in the area,” the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park tweeted Friday.

The closure is scheduled at least through Monday.

The Aquatic Park Cove is just north of San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square and the cable car terminus of the Powell-Hyde line.

The San Francisco Fire Department said that an adult man suffered trauma injuries from a sea lion’s bite Friday morning. The National Park Service began posting signs that said, “Danger — Aquatic Park Cove closed for swimming due to multiple marine animal bites.”
The San Francisco Chronicle said the injured swimmer suffered a severe bite about 8 a.m. Friday.

“It hit him right here, close to the family jewels,” Bob Roper, 79, pointing to the inside of his upper thigh, told the Chronicle, of the injured swimmer, Rick Mulvihill. Both are members of the South End Rowing Club, which bills itself as San Francisco’s oldest swimming and rowing club.

“A sea lion came up from underneath and grabbed him on the inside of his thigh,” Andrew Burrell, a witness, told KPIX-TV.

A day earlier, a swimmer was hospitalized after being bitten on the arm by a sea lion.

The man had been swimming Thursday afternoon when a sea lion came at him and he felt threatened, he told police. The swimmer began splashing water at the animal to make it move away, San Francisco Police Officer Matthew Reiter said during a news conference.

“When it didn’t work, he yelled at it and then the sea lion came up and bit him on the arm,” said Reiter, a member of the department’s marine unit.

The man, identified by KTVU-TV as Christian Einfeldt, 56, an experienced swimmer, told the station that he shouted, “No,” at the animal, but it still came at him. “His head slid down my arm. Fortunately he only got one tooth into my arm,” Einfeldt told KTVU-TV.

Reiter said the man then used his arm to push the animal away, and it left. People aboard a nearby sailboat rescued the swimmer and called the Coast Guard.

“The boat saved his life,” Reiter said. “Had that boat not seen him, this could have been a different story.”

Authorities directed the boat to come in, and Reiter applied a tourniquet in an attempt to stop heavy bleeding. The swimmer was taken to a hospital “with a serious extremity injury,” the San Francisco Fire Department said in a tweet.

Reiter said an attack like this is “not common at all.”

“I’ve only been part of the unit for two years now, and I haven’t had a single sea lion or wildlife attack like this,” Reiter said.

The Chronicle reported that another swimmer was bitten three or four days ago, but the injury was not serious enough to require medical attention.

California sea lions are “unpredictable and can become aggressive quickly,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

“They have sharp teeth and may bite, particularly if cornered, harassed, sick or if protecting their young. Sea lions can be playful, however they can also be territorial and dangerous, especially during the mating seasons,” the agency said.


NOAA advises swimmers to stay 50 yards away from free-swimming seals and sea lions.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html


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Salmon-Hunting Sea Lions Slaughtered


Authorities are investigating the weekend shooting deaths of six Pacific Coast sea lions that had been targets of a controversial federal program designed to keep the seals from devouring the dwindling salmon population.

After the shootings, U.S. wildlife officials suspended the program, which involved moving away and sometimes killing so-called predator seals.

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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby Burnt Hill » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:29 pm

These Birds of Prey Are Deliberately Setting Forests on Fire
Even more proof Australian wildlife is nuts.

PETER DOCKRILL 10 JAN 2018
It's pretty hot in Australia right now. A brutal heatwave that's incinerated temperature records threatens devastating bushfires – and to make matters worse, authorities have to contend with an ancient breed of flying arsonists that may as well be miniature dragons.


A new study incorporating traditional Indigenous Australian ecological knowledge describes the largely unknown behaviour of so-called 'firehawk raptors' – birds that intentionally spread fire by wielding burning sticks in their talons and beaks.

These flying firestarters are spread across at least three known species – the Black Kite (Milvus migrans), Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus), and Brown Falcon (Falco berigora) – but while their hell-raising may be observed in Indigenous knowledge, that's not so elsewhere.

"Though Aboriginal rangers and others who deal with bushfires take into account the risks posed by raptors that cause controlled burns to jump across firebreaks, official skepticism about the reality of avian fire-spreading hampers effective planning for landscape management and restoration," the international team explains in their paper.

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“Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia,” Bonta et al. Journal of Ethnobiology, 37(4) (abstract): http://bit.ly/2CJJFXX #ethnobiology #ethnoornithology #birds #fire

While news of aerial arsonists fire-bombing the landscape may seem surprising or even shocking, the researchers are eager to emphasise that this destructive phenomenon has actually been witnessed for untold millennia.


"We're not discovering anything," one of the team, geographer Mark Bonta from Penn State Altoona, told National Geographic.

"Most of the data that we've worked with is collaborative with Aboriginal peoples… They've known this for probably 40,000 years or more."

According to the team, firehawk raptors congregate in hundreds along burning fire fronts, where they will fly into active fires to pick up smouldering sticks, transporting them up to a kilometre (0.6 miles) away to regions the flames have not yet scorched.

"The imputed intent of raptors is to spread fire to unburned locations – for example, the far side of a watercourse, road, or artificial break created by firefighters – to flush out prey via flames or smoke," the researchers write.

This behaviour, documented in interviews with the team and observed first-hand by some of the researchers, sees prey driven toward the raptors by a wall of flame, enabling them to engage in a feeding frenzy upon fleeing or scorched land animals.

The inspiration for the study came from a passage in the 1964 autobiography of Indigenous doctor and activist, Phillip Waipuldanya Roberts.


"I have seen a hawk pick up a smouldering stick in its claws and drop it in a fresh patch of dry grass half a mile away," he said, "then wait with its mates for the mad exodus of scorched and frightened rodents and reptiles."

Of course, as any law student knows, crimes not only entail a physical component, but a mental one.

In this case, do the birds really know what they're doing, or are they only accidentally clutching at (burning) straws?

The researchers think the former is the case, saying accounts of multiple witnesses suggest this behaviour is not a fluke – and even more scary, it looks to be coordinated like a pack hunt.

"It's not gratuitous," one of the team, Australian ethnobiologist and ornithologist Bob Gosford, told The Washington Post in 2016.

"There's a purpose. There's an intent to say, okay, there are several hundred of us there, we can all get a meal."

If the hypothesis is correct, it means we finally have confirmation of a new force in nature that can spread devastating wildfires - and local Indigenous people knew it all along.

"The birds aren't starting fires from scratch, but it's the next best thing," Bonta told The Washington Post.

"Fire is supposedly so uniquely human."

The findings are reported in the Journal of Ethnobiology.
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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:41 am

Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Postby 82_28 » Mon Feb 12, 2018 6:37 pm

Suspected poacher eaten by lions in South Africa

Johannesburg (AFP) - A suspected poacher was mauled to death and eaten by a pack of lions close to the Kruger National Park in South Africa, police said Monday, adding that little was left of the victim's body.

The remains were found at the weekend in the bush at a private game park near Hoedspruit in the northern province of Limpopo, where animals have been poached in increasing numbers over recent years.

"It seems the victim was poaching in the game park when he was attacked and killed by lions. They ate his body, nearly all of it, and just left his head and some remains," Limpopo police spokesman Moatshe Ngoepe told AFP.

A loaded hunting rifle was found near the body on Saturday morning. Police are trying to establish the victim's identity.

Last year, several lions were found poisoned near a farm in the same province with their heads and paws sawn off.

Lion body parts are used in traditional medicine.

Poachers also often target rhinoceroses in South Africa's game parks to feed a booming demand for rhino horn in China, Vietnam and other Asian countries, where it is believed to have medicinal qualities.


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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby liminalOyster » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:56 pm

Cow escapes on way to slaughterhouse, smashes through metal fence, breaks arm of man trying to catch her then swims to safety on island in lake
Local politician reportedly agrees to let animal live after its ordeal captures public attention

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The cow appears to have won its right to live after a campaign by politician Pawel Kukiz Facebook/Pawel Kukiz
A cow has been living alone on an island, attacking anyone who comes near, after staging a miraculous escape on its way to a slaughterhouse.

The animal made its bid for safety last month after it refused to get into a lorry taking it to be killed for meat. Instead it rammed a metal fence before making a dash for the nearby Lake Nysa, south Poland.

After the cow’s owner, known only as Mr Lukasz, attempted to get it back to the farm, the cow broke one of his worker’s arms, according to Polish news show Wiadomosci.

It then entered the water and swam to one of the islands in the middle of the lake. Mr Lukasz said he even saw it dive underwater on its way.

After a week of trying and failing to get the cow back, Mr Lukasz gave up and began making sure it was fed enough food to stay alive instead.

A vet called in to tranquillise the animal told Mr Lukasz he had run out of gas cartridges, and that it would take several days to get new ones.

Despite the farmer considering having it shot dead, a political leader in the town of Nysa, Czeslaw Bilobran, has reportedly said the cow will live out its life in peace.

Politician and former singer, Pawel Kukiz, raised the animal's plight on Wednesday in a Facebook post in which he offered to pay for the “hero cow” to be saved from death.

“She escaped heroically and infiltrated the island in the middle of the lake, where it remains today,” Mr Kukiz said, according to Polish news magazine Wprost. “She did not succumb to firefighters who wanted to transport her by boat and she was still on the battlefield.

"I am not a vegetarian, but fortitude and the will to fight for this cow's life is invaluable. Therefore, I decided to do everything to cause the cow to be delivered to a safe place and in the second stage, as a reward for her attitude, give her a guarantee of a long-term retirement and natural death.”

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Postby PufPuf93 » Sat Feb 17, 2018 3:12 pm



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Leaping Elk Crashes Low-Flying Research Helicopter In Utah

February 14, 2018 at 7:23 am

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An elk leaped into a research helicopter that was trying to capture it and brought down the helicopter in a collision that also killed the elk, authorities said Tuesday.
The elk jumped into the chopper’s tail rotor as the aircraft flew about 10 feet (3 meters) above ground in a mountainous part of eastern Utah, with its crew trying to drop a net on the elk, said Jared Rigby of the Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office.
The two people on board weren’t seriously hurt, but the elk died of its injuries Monday afternoon.
The state-contracted Texas-based crew was trying to capture and sedate the elk and give it a tracking collar to research its movements in the area about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Salt Lake City.
Helicopters are a frequently used and essential tool for monitoring remote wildlife in Utah, said Mark Hadley with the state Division of Wildlife Resources.
The tracking collars help wildlife officials monitor elk migration paths and survival rates. The state captures about 1,300 animals each winter, almost all using helicopters, and Tuesday’s downing of the helicopter was the first accident of its kind, he said.
The crew had launched a net it catch the animal, but when that didn’t immediately work the pilot started to slow down so someone could jump out and hobble the elk, Hadley said. As the helicopter slowed down, the elk collided with the rotor, Hadley said.
The helicopter was damaged on its tail rotor, right skid and underside, Rigsby said.
State officials will review the incident that appears to have been a fluke accident, Hadley said.
Environmental groups have protested the use of helicopters to monitor wildlife.
The group Wilderness Watch is objecting to a plan to study mountain goats using helicopters in a central-Utah wilderness area, calling the aircraft “unnecessary intrusion into some of our most treasured lands,” according to the Deseret News.
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Postby BenDhyan » Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:10 am

Not sure where to post this astonishing story, and I have no problem with mods relocating it if it seems fit, but.fwiw....

A Review Of 'The Shape Of Water,' From A Guy Who Had Sex With A Dolphin

10/03/2018

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"I find a dolphin a lot more sexy than that thing was," said Malcolm Brenner. In 2010, journalist Malcolm J. Brenner released his autobiographical novel, Wet Goddess. A few years later, Brenner was the subject of an award-winning documentary, “Dolphin Lover.” Both works explore a period in the 1970s for which Brenner became famous — the time he fell in love with and ultimately made love to a dolphin named Dolly.

As he was rocketing toward a sensational sort of renown, Brenner also became the subject of a number of think pieces and interviews. But the internet’s metabolism is quick, even when inter-species dolphin sex is involved, and Brenner’s name slowly faded from the national conversation.

Then, Guillermo del Toro made “The Shape of Water,” a movie about a mute woman who falls in love with and ultimately makes love to a strapping humanoid amphibian, and it won the Best Picture Academy Award this past Sunday. I immediately thought of Brenner.

In 1970, when Brenner was a college sophomore, he was given open access to the now-defunct theme park Floridaland near Sarasota to take photos for a book about the dolphin show. There, he claims, Dolly the dolphin began courting him.

“She would rub her genital slit against me,” he says in “Dolphin Lover.” “And if I tried to push her away, she would get very angry with me. One time, when she wanted to masturbate on my foot and I wouldn’t let her, she threw herself on top of me and pushed me down to the 12-foot bottom of the pool.”

After some time, Brenner and Dolly consummated their relationship — he vertical, she horizontal — but Brenner eventually moved away and Dolly was sent to an aquarium in Mississippi, where she later died.

Brenner is a thinking person’s zoophile. He draws a careful distinction between zoophiles and mere bestialists, noting in “Dolphin Lover” that the latter “might just have sex with an animal and walk away,” while the former “is someone who has tender or caring emotions for their animal partner.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/the-shape-of-water-malcolm-brenner-dolphin-sex_us_5aa17482e4b0e9381c169b7a

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Postby Cordelia » Fri Apr 06, 2018 7:38 am

Didn't know where else to put this.....Media reducing these suffering creatures to B Movie horror characterization .

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Teeth-Baring 'Zombie' Raccoons Scaring Residents of Ohio Town

By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer | April 5, 2018 07:03am ET

Raccoons acting like "zombies" have been scaring residents of one Ohio town, according to news reports.

In recent weeks, police in Youngstown, Ohio have received over a dozen calls about raccoons acting strangely in broad daylight, according to local news outlet WKBN.

One resident, Robert Coggeshall, told WKBN that he spotted a raccoon behaving very oddly last week while he was playing with his dogs outside. The raccoon "would stand up on his hind legs, which I've never seen a raccoon do before, and he would show his teeth and then he would fall over backward and go into almost a comatose condition,” Coggeshall said.

The raccoons don't seem to have rabies, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Rather, the animals likely have a disease called distemper, according to WKBN.


Distemper is a serious viral disease that affects dogs and some wild animals, including raccoons, foxes, wolves, coyotes, skunks and ferrets, according to the American Kennel Club (AKC). It's caused by the canine distemper virus, which belongs to a family of viruses known as paramyxoviruses, and is related to the virus that causes measles in humans, the AKC says.

The virus attacks the respiratory, gastrointestinal and nervous systems of dogs and other animals, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). Initial symptoms can include pus-like discharge from the animals' eyes, along with fever, reduced appetite, nasal discharge, coughing and vomiting.

As the disease progresses, the animals may develop neurological symptoms, including muscle twitches, convulsions with jaw movements, seizures or paralysis. Animals may also show changes in behavior, such as circling or tilting their head. In wild animals, distemper closely resembles rabies, the AVMA says.

Distemper in dogs is preventable with a vaccine, which is given as a series of shots to puppies, followed by booster vaccines for adult dogs

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Postby beeline » Tue Apr 17, 2018 5:14 pm

https://www.sfgate.com/news/local/article/Baboons-used-55-gallon-barrel-to-escape-from-San-12838226.php

Baboons used 55-gallon barrel to escape from San Antonio research facility, officials say
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Postby Burnt Hill » Sun May 13, 2018 11:53 pm

Giraffe Kills South African Film Director
It wasn't the giraffe's fault, safari lodge says
By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff
Posted May 7, 2018 1:52 AM CDT

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A giraffe walks through the bush in Kruger National Park near Skukuza, South Africa. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

(NEWSER) – Giraffes aren't exactly South Africa's deadliest creature, but they can still be extremely dangerous: A South African film director is dead after what film agency CallaCrew describes as a "fatal run-in with a giraffe on set." Carlos Carvalho, 47, was filming close-ups of the bull giraffe at a wildlife facility when it swung its neck and hit him with its head, sending him flying through the air, Variety reports. The award-winning director, who'd been filming scenes for the movie Premium Nanny 2, suffered serious head injuries and died after being flown to a hospital in Johannesburg.

Film crew member Drikus van Der Merwe tells the Telegraph that the giraffe had been chasing the unit's boom swinger, but "we didn't feel threatened because he just seemed to be inquisitive." He says Carvalho wasn't aware of the danger and didn't see the attack coming. The Glen Afric safari lodge says Carvalho didn't have permission to film Gerald the giraffe and had been warned not to approach the animal. "Gerald was not to blame and [will] not be put down," says lodge spokesman Richard Brooker, per the Sun. "We are not going to shoot Gerald. He was not in the wrong." (The owner of another wildlife park is recovering from being mauled by a lion that he bottle-fed when it was a cub.)
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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

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Postby Cordelia » Mon May 21, 2018 5:42 pm

‘He was being followed by a pig and didn’t know what to do.’ So he called 911.

A pig was taken into police custody after it was accused of stalking a human, who was so perplexed by his four-legged pursuer that he called 911 to report it.

“Yes,” police said, “a pig.”

The unusual case unfolded Saturday morning when a man called 911 and said that he was being followed on his way home from an Amtrak station in Ohio.

It made for a surreal emergency call.

“North Ridgeville Police,” the dispatcher answered.

“Uh, hi, I’m walking from the Elyria train station to my house in North Ridgeville and a random pig just came up and started following me,” the caller said.

Dispatcher: “A pig, you said?”

Caller: “Yes.”

And then: “It seems very keen to stay with me, so . . .”

The dispatcher chuckled, then composed herself and told the man she would send an officer to the scene.

The North Ridgeville Police Department later suggested that it was at least a little skeptical about the call.

The man, according to police, said “he was being followed by a pig and didn’t know what to do.”

But, you know, protect and serve and all, and so, police said, “night shift responded to the obviously drunk guy walking home from the bar at 5:26 in the morning. He was at least drunk enough to call the police on himself while hallucinating.”

And yet . . .

“Upon arrival, they found a very sober male walking eastbound on Center Ridge near Maddock Rd. from the actual Amtrak train station in Elyria, not the bar. Oh, and he was being followed by a pig.”

So what did the authorities do? The only logical thing: They put the animal in the back of a patrol car and took it to a dog kennel, where its owners would be able to find it.

Ryan Singley, the caller who reported the oddity, told Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS that the animal was friendly.

“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.

“She was very sweet and nice, and the responding officer was in good spirits about the whole thing,” Singley said.

North Ridgeville Police Capt. Marti Garrow told The Washington Post on Monday that the pig is somebody’s pet and that it had dug itself out of its fenced-in yard.

Garrow said officers took the animal, which he said weighs between 35 and 50 pounds, to a dog kennel until its owners could pick it up.

The pig, identified by police as Zoey (or perhaps Zoe), has been returned to its home, he said.

In the end, police were not oblivious to the humor.

“We will mention the irony of the pig in a police car now so that anyone that thinks they’re funny is actually unoriginal and trying too hard,” the department said.

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