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Offbeat News tagged with wild animals

Baby Okay After Pet Monkey Attack in Indiana
Offbeat  (tags: baby, attacked, wild animals, not pets, pet monkey, recovering )

Simone
- 7 hours ago - examiner.com
NWI.com reports on a 10-month-old baby attacked by a pet monkey in a family's member's home in LaPorte, Indiana, this past weekend. The baby, her mother and grandmother were visiting relatives who have a pet monkey. The grandmother was holding the
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Black Bear Becomes Honorary Dularge Resident
Offbeat  (tags: black bear, louisana honorary dularge resident, humans, wild animals, harmony )

Simone
- 3 days ago - houmatoday.com
After months of evading capture by teams of wildlife specialists, a wayward Louisiana black bear seems to be calling Dularge his new home. Despite sending out a multi-agency task force of specialists equipped with heat-sensing, night-vision goggles,
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Mistaken Identity: Hunters Kill Endangered Pygmy Hippo During Pig Hunt!
Offbeat  (tags: pygmy hippo, pig hunters, australia, wild animals, killed, mistaken for pig )

Simone
- 3 days ago - ecoworldly.com
According to reports, a pygmy hippopotamus was shot and killed when hunters allegedly mistook it for a pig during a pig hunting expedition in Australia!
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Colored Between the Lions: Big Cats King of Zoo Art Exhibition in Syracuse
Offbeat  (tags: environment, animals, art, zoos, wild animals )

Cher
- 7 days ago - syracuse.com
The judges have rendered their verdict: The winner of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo's "Art Gone Wild" exhibition is a collaboration by its three lions titled "Ruckus."
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YOUNG WHO CAN'T SPOT A LEOPARD
Offbeat  (tags: young children, studies, wild animals, differences )

Simone
- 9 days ago - express.co.uk
FOUR out of five children cannot identify common zoo animals - and many of them are unable to tell the difference between a tiger and a lion. Research out today reveals that almost a quarter of children have never visited a zoo or animal park, and
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Clip Du Jour: When Animals Attack...With Urine!
Offbeat  (tags: televison, CBS show, beaver, wild animals, peed on lady, bizarre, off-beat )

Simone
- 11 days ago - popwatch.ew.com
Does laughing at this poor woman getting sprayed with beaver urine make me a child? Perhaps. But I'm willing to live with that burden because...seriously, how often to anchors get peed on?
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Wild Texas: The Critters of the Lone Star State
Offbeat  (tags: wild animals, wildlife, wild texas, lone star state, animals )

Simone
- 15 days ago - gadling.com
When it comes to viewing wildlife in the U.S., most people naturally gravitate to the western part of the country, where you'll find a wide variety of species in abundance. Places like Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and of course Alaska, have great reputation
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This Man Herds Elephants
Offbeat  (tags: elephants, humans, fencing, crops, wild animals, herds )

Simone
- 15 days ago - eastandard.net
From the safety of his house, Philip Ndivo sees a herd of elephants moving down a hill in Shimba Hills National Park. He pulls down a big electric switch mounted on a wooden deck in his house.
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Deer Jumps Into Lions' Den at National Zoo
Offbeat  (tags: baby deer, mystery, escaped, jumps into lions den, wild animals )

Simone
- 16 days ago - wtopnews.com
National Zoo visitors got a taste of the Wild Kingdom as a deer jumps into the lions' enclosure at the National Zoo Sunday. The two female lions attacked the deer, which managed to escape into a moat. The lions stalk the edge of the moat as the deer
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What Are Your Chances Of Being Eaten By An Animal?
Offbeat  (tags: deaths, fatalies, wildlife, wild animals, unusual, animals )

Simone
- 16 days ago - wildlifeartjournal.com
By now, you've probably read about the sad and unfortunate death of Taylor Mitchell, the 19-year-old folk singer from Toronto who died from injuries sustained in a mauling involving coyotes in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Highlands National Park. And, if
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Learn and View Tiger, Lion, Leopard and Jaguar Enrichment Activities at Akron Zoo
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, zoos, enrichment, wild animals )

Cher
- 16 days ago - zandavisitor.com
The Akron Zoo will host an Enrichment Day on Saturday, November 14, 2009, to showcase enriching activities for the animals that stimulate their natural behaviors. Activities are planned for a variety of animals from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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When Have You Noticed Animals in Nature or Your Pets Displaying a Sixth Sense?
Offbeat  (tags: animals, companion animals, wild animals, nature, sixth sense, perceptions, feelings )

Simone
- 17 days ago - blog.seattlepi.com
We live in a houseful of sniffers. Anything new, in a different place, or that could possibly be food gets sniffed by our two cats and dog. The bird checks out the new and unusual with his calls and screeches. As we observe how the animals who share
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Would You Like to Adopt a Toronto Zoo Tiger, Gorilla, or Polar Bear?
Offbeat  (tags: animals, Toronto Zoo, adoptions, wild animals, protection, environment )

Cher
- 19 days ago - zandavisitor.com
The polar bears are back! Celebrate the return of our bears by giving your loved ones the Toronto Zoo's $60 Adopt An Animal Holiday Special Package! Adopt a magnificent polar bear (or choose your own favourite Zoo animal)!
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Your Morning Adorable: Elephant Eats a Pumpkin at Maryland Zoo Halloween Celebration
Offbeat  (tags: animals, zoos, Halloween, environment, protection, wild animals )

Cher
- 33 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
As part of the Halloween festivities at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, even the elephants are getting the chance to celebrate our ghastliest holiday in style. African elephants Felix (above, who, despite what her name suggests, is female) and her year
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Wildlife 'Reality' Channel Planned
Offbeat  (tags: animals, wildlife, channel, tv, environment, protection, wild animals )

Cher
- 37 days ago - mnn.com
Fox and National Geographic are launching a new cable network, Nat Geo Wild, to bring footage of lions, tigers and bears right into your living room.
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