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Elephant brutally tramples handler during Sri Lankan festival
The Buddhist Perera festival, which took place in the southwestern city of Galle, was stuck with terror when the giant animal lost its cool midway through a parade.
'Wasn't in any hurry': Sea lion wanders back to water after stopping traffic on B.C. highway
An RCMP officer found himself in a lengthy, head-scratching standoff on a Vancouver Island highway over the weekend after a sea lion somehow made its way onto the road.
shiba inu getting choked out lol
'Wasn't in any hurry': Sea lion wanders back to water after stopping traffic on B.C. highway
An RCMP officer found himself in a lengthy, head-scratching standoff on a Vancouver Island highway over the weekend after a sea lion somehow made its way onto the road.bc.ctvnews.ca
Sea otter mounts surfboard in Sooke
Onlookers saw the otter riding the swells with three surfers near Vancouver Island, before hopping aboard one of their surfboaards.
Most Canadian story of the day so far -
A man suffered serious injuries after (here comes a Canadian part) he jumped onto a polar bear that attacked his wife (and now comes the VERY Canadian part) in the driveway of their home I’m no zoologist, but I’m guessing that there are very few driveways in a polar bear’s...
othercrap.com
Man leaps onto polar bear to protect his wife from attack
A Canadian man suffered serious injuries after he jumped onto a polar bear that attacked his wife in the driveway of their home, tribal authorities said.
www.today.com
Dinosaur footprint site found in England
Dinosaur tracks believed to be 166-million-years-old were discovered after the excavation of a quarry in Oxfordshire, England.
"I'm Cooked" Florida Man Accepts His Fate After Being Bitten By A Diamondback Rattlesnake But Says It Will Be A Good Meme!
Florida Man Bitten By A Diamondback Rattlesnake. Posted By Persist
UBC researchers find link between road salt and death and deformities in salmon
UBC Zoology researchers have found evidence that high levels of winter road salt runoff can harm salmon eggs.
vancouver.citynews.ca
What's scary about this isn't the battle between the praying mantis and the lizard, it's the horsehair worm That exits the praying mantis during the fight leaving the mantis incapacitated and food for the lizard.
I don't know what would have happened had the lizard attempted to eat the mantis with the horsehair worm inside it
“A female European Honey Buzzard Bird was fitted with a satellite tracking system in Finland recently and was of particular interest to locals because it spent the most recent austral summer around the town of Reitz in the Free State in South Africa.
She left Reitz to start heading north on 20 April and on the 2nd of June, she finally reached Finland where she will probably spend the boreal summer before probably returning again next season for a visit in South Africa.
Here is an image showing the data received from the tracker which plots out the route that she took to head north… so, in just 42 days, she covered over 10 000 km at an average of more than 230 km every single day! Isn’t that just amazing…?!”
What I find amazing is how she took a straight line north except for when she had to fly over water. (or Sudan) Edit: Apparently she turned right at the source of the Nile and followed it. I’m still fascinated by the fact that after that deviation she returned to the same longitudinal line she started.”
Enraged Elephant Attacks Crowd, Swings Man Like Rag Doll at Festival in India
Dozens were injured when an enraged elephant attacked a crowd during a festival in India ... swinging one man around like a rag doll before throwing him violently to the ground -- and it was all caught on video.
www.tmz.com
Passenger Arrested After Trying to Board Flight with Skull of a Baby Crocodile in Their Luggage
A Canadian man was arrested by authorities at an airport in India after he was caught trying to bring a baby crocodile skull on his flight from New Delhi to Canada on Monday, Jan. 6.
7 Prehistoric Creatures That Aren’t Dinosaurs
These prehistoric beasts deserve just as much recognition as their dinosaur peers.
How Mammals Won the Dinosaurs’ World
How did a band of small, insignificant mammals scuffling in the shadows survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?
Mysteries of the Poisonous Amphibians
Many brightly colored frogs and salamanders have enough toxins in their skin to kill multiple people. How do they survive their own noxious weapons?
Bear splashes into northern California pool
Home security video shows a bear jumping in and casually swimming in a Northern California pool during the middle of the night.