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Out Of Place Animals

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Woman finds marmoset in her conservatory

In Wolverhampton.

Animal rescuers were called by the "distressed" homeowner who reported finding a "strange wild animal with a bushy tail" leaping about her property. Volunteers who attended the scene said they had expected to find a squirrel or a fox but were left shocked to see a monkey casually sitting on the kitchen countertop.

The team were able to entice the unusual exotic visitor into a cage and back to an animal rescue centre where he has since been named Marcel. Marcel - who was 5,400 miles away from his native South America - is believed to have been a dumped unwanted pet as he is tame and friendly around humans.
"He was very skinny and hungry but he was clever enough to know he needed to find the humans. We assume he must have been a pet which was sadly dumped or released when the owner no longer wanted him.

Gemma said Marcel liked to sit on volunteers' laps and groom their hair "in order to make friends" and they had all been won over by the "lovely little chap." She added: "He has been with us a couple of weeks now and he is a lovely little chap. He will sit in the palm of your hands, he is very relaxed around humans - hence why he broke into somebody's house and we think he is a pet rather than from a zoo.

The animal charity says on its website: "Unfortunately, it's technically legal to own a marmoset in the UK, but we're campaigning against primates as pets and calling for the governments of England and Wales to change this. There are a number of reasons why we don't think marmoset monkeys are suitable pets. Marmosets can live up to 18 years - they're a serious long-term commitment.
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hunck said:
Woman finds marmoset in her conservatory

In Wolverhampton.

Animal rescuers were called by the "distressed" homeowner who reported finding a "strange wild animal with a bushy tail" leaping about her property. Volunteers who attended the scene said they had expected to find a squirrel or a fox but were left shocked to see a monkey casually sitting on the kitchen countertop.

The team were able to entice the unusual exotic visitor into a cage and back to an animal rescue centre where he has since been named Marcel. Marcel - who was 5,400 miles away from his native South America - is believed to have been a dumped unwanted pet as he is tame and friendly around humans.

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Blimey! It looks like Toby Jones!
 
hunck said:
Woman finds marmoset in her conservatory

In Wolverhampton.

Animal rescuers were called by the "distressed" homeowner who reported finding a "strange wild animal with a bushy tail" leaping about her property. Volunteers who attended the scene said they had expected to find a squirrel or a fox but were left shocked to see a monkey casually sitting on the kitchen countertop.

The team were able to entice the unusual exotic visitor into a cage and back to an animal rescue centre where he has since been named Marcel. Marcel - who was 5,400 miles away from his native South America - is believed to have been a dumped unwanted pet as he is tame and friendly around humans.

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The monkey will be more at home in Dorset.

A mystery monkey which was found in a woman's conservatory has been taken to his new home at an ape rescue centre.

Marcel the marmoset was rescued from a home in Wolverhampton by volunteers at Wings and Paws Rescue after the woman found the wild monkey in her house.

The animal charity said they have since secured a permanent home for Marcel at Monkey World in Dorset, where the marmoset arrived on Wednesday.

Rescuers at Wings and Paws said Marcel was so friendly that they believed he had been a pet who was dumped or released into the wild.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz5djnknzymo
 
This happened in Mexico & there's no explanation as to how the bull got there. Still, better a day on the beach than in the bull ring.

Shock moment woman gored by bull on beach​

This is the terrifying moment a woman is gored by a wild bull on a popular beach as she tried to pick up her bag and beach towel.
This is the terrifying moment a tourist is gored by a wild bull on a popular beach in Mexico as she tried to pick up her bag and beach towel.
The woman, who enjoying a day at La Fortuna beach in Baja California, was gathering her belongings when the wild animal attacked.

At first the bull appears to just sniff at her but soon becomes enraged, butting the woman with its horns and throwing her to the ground.
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https://www.news.com.au/travel/trav...h/news-story/a3787e3fd72a1a0ffbd8070d783ef6ce
 
Researchers: up to six times more wolf packs to be expected in the Netherlands

Wolf habitat is expanding in the Netherlands and the number of wolf packs is expected to increase by a factor of two and a half to six over the current nine known wolf packs in the future. This is according to research by Wageningen University & Research, commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture.

For their research, the scientists used, among other things, information on the types of landscape in which wolves with transmitters in Germany live, such as forest and heathland. They put that information into a model, together with information on the landscape in the Netherlands, population density and, for example, the extent to which people have modified the landscape.

Precisely predicting where wolves will settle is impossible. According to the researchers, the wolf is ‘a “plastic species”, an opportunist that adapts to new conditions’. Wolves need forested areas where they find nesting sites. In contrast, young wolves looking for their own habitat can turn up anywhere, including in cities.

Lelieveld thinks the research is especially important for policymakers. ‘How are they going to help people living in the areas where the wolf is coming to live with their new big-toothed neighbour? Contact between humans and wolves should remain as minimal as possible, for everyone's sake.’

Meanwhile, the wolf's advance is increasingly causing problems. Last year, for example, a wolf was shot dead in Wapse in Drenthe when it collided with a sheep farmer. The number of attacks on farm animals by wolves also increased in recent years.
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