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Day Of The Animals: Tales Of Man Vs Beast (And Man Suffers)

Swifty said:
The moment a flock of pink footed geese met flocks of starlings murmuration and the incredible air ballet that followed .. this is a facebook link so sorry to anyone who isn't on facebook ...
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I was out on my permission this afternoon watching a buzzard, a red kite, a kestrel and a roe doe. For real.

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Drunk the entire bottle?!

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An opossum that apparently drank bourbon after breaking into a Florida liquor store sobered up at a wildlife rescue center and was released unharmed.

Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge officials say the opossum was brought in by a Fort Walton Beach, Florida, police officer on Nov. 24. A liquor store employee found the animal next to a broken and empty bottle of bourbon.

“A worker there found the opossum up on a shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor with nothing in it,” said Michelle Pettis, a technician at the refuge. “She definitely wasn’t fully acting normal.”


Pettis told the Northwest Florida Daily News the female opossum appeared disoriented, was excessively salivating and was pale. The staff pumped the marsupial full of fluids and cared for her as she sobered up.

“We loaded her up with fluids to help flush out any alcohol toxins,” Pettis said. “She was good a couple of days later.”

Pettis says the opossum did not appear to have a hangover.

The store owner, Cash Moore, says he never had an opossum break in before.

https://apnews.com/1043773b5ea44e9ca9506a0632fc3eac
 
UK to bring back beavers in first government flood reduction scheme of its kind
Beaver family will be released in the Forest of Dean to stop a village from flooding, with potential for further such schemes to follow

The plan for the village of Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, may soon be joined by other schemes. The environment secretary, Michael Gove, has indicated that the government may support other schemes to restore the beaver four centuries after it was driven to extinction in England and Wales.

The beavers’ dam-building stores huge quantities of water and slows peak flows during flood events, potentially lessening devastating floods. Unofficial releases of beavers on to the River Otter in Devon have led to an official trial and similar schemes in Scotland last year led to the Scottish government declaring that the beaver would once again be recognised and protected as a native mammal.

Local people have welcomed the decision after months of uncertainty over whether the scheme, which was first proposed by the Forestry Commission, would be supported by central government. This is the first such scheme on government land.

“We’re all very excited – it’s great news,” said Sid Phelps, a local Green councillor. “They’ve got the beavers in cages all ready to go and we have some good experts who know the beavers. The worst-case scenario is that they have little impact on flood alleviation but there are other spin-offs such as the benefit to local ecology and tourism. Someone came in the pub the other day to ask where the valley was. There is a lot of interest and we might even get Michael [Gove] himself down here to open the cage door.”

The Forestry Commission is funding and overseeing the project on Greathough Brook, in which two adult beavers and two kits will be released into a 6.5 hectare enclosure surrounded by state-of-the-art fencing to ensure the beavers do not move into the wider landscape. The Forestry Commission will monitor the impact on wildlife – shown to be hugely beneficial – as well as recording the water flow in the brook. All the beavers will be fully tested for disease before they are released.

Chris McFarling, a cabinet member of Forest of Dean district council, said: “Beavers are the most natural water engineers we could ask for. They’re inexpensive, environmentally friendly and contribute to sustainable water and flood management.
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A feathered fighter.

A World War Two medal, which was awarded to a carrier pigeon, has fetched £7,200 at an auction.

The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) Dickin Medal was given to a pigeon that flew from the Greek island Crete to Alexandria, Egypt.

The 406 mile (653km) flight took place in 1943 and the accolade was awarded to the bird called Princess in 1946.

It was sold to an internet buyer by the family of the trainer at Holloway's Auctioneers, Banbury.

The PDSA, which created the medal in 1943, said the flight by the was one of the "finest performances" in the war record of the National Pigeon Service.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42326669
 
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The winner's being announced tomorrow apparently .. I'd vote for otter covered in pond weed myself.
 
That'll teach him not to splash water at a sea lion.

A man swimming in San Francisco Bay has suffered a serious arm injury after being bitten by a sea lion, officials have said.

The incident occurred in the Aquatic Park area on Thursday afternoon.

People on a passing sailboat witnessed the attack and rescued the 56-year-old man, who was treated for a "serious extremity injury".

Such attacks are rare, although swimmers have reported incidents in the bay in the past.

"He was swimming and said a sea lion came up to him and he splashed water on it and it didn't work," Matthew Reiter of the San Francisco Police Department's Marine Unit told Fox News.

"He yelled at it and then the sea lion came up and bit him on the arm".

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42366891#
 
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A car with two hooters.

Oil change? More like “Owl” change.

When mechanics at a Pep Boys Auto Parts and Car Repair shop in New Hampshire opened the hood of a car this week to do an oil change, they discovered more than just an engine under there.

According to police in Salem, N.H., the workers were greeted — unexpectedly — by an insolent-looking owl, which somehow managed to squeeze its way into the tight space.

“Pep Boys Auto repair popped the hood of a car for a routine oil change and shazam! An Eastern Screech Owl!,” police wrote on Facebook Friday afternoon. “[It] was sitting on the engine and the car owner had no idea how he got there. We figured he was either seeking warmth or chasing a mouse.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...the-hood-while-doing-an-oil-change/ar-BBGN8v2
 
In relation to the annual retrospection attending the current year's final week ...

Live Science has compiled a slideshow of notable 2017 incidents involving humans and animals - most all of which call into question the humans' self-annointment as the planet's most intelligent species ...

8 Human-Animal Encounters That Went Horribly Wrong in 2017
Sometimes when people interact casually with animals, their behavior is inappropriate, deliberately provocative, ill-informed or careless, and this can have catastrophic or even deadly consequences. The outcomes of such encounters — which often result in people or animals suffering injury or even death — seem all the more tragic because they could have easily been avoided, had the human participants practiced a little more common sense.
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https://www.livescience.com/61195-disastrous-human-animal-encounters-in-2017.html
 
Rare intersex shark found (to cut a long story short, some of these have got both a nob and a fanny) ..

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https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/rare-intersex-shark-the-first-of-its-kind/
 
Really touching.

A dog had apparently been faithfully lying beside the body of its deceased owner for several weeks when the pair were discovered in a flat in Hungary.

The nine-year-old Havanese breed, called Zsazsa, was found in a Budapest apartment on Wednesday.

She was severely malnourished when found, animal protection officials in Budapest said.

Zsazsa's owner, a woman in her sixties, appeared to have died of natural causes.

Neighbours called the police after becoming concerned that the elderly woman had not been seen for several weeks, Reuters reported.

Police entered the apartment and found the dog lying next to its owner.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42586368
 
Hot Cross Bun-ny! Pet rabbit is hailed as 'the second coming' after a giant crucifix-shape 'mysteriously appears on its head'
  • Brown rabbit Fluff has been branded 'baby Jesus' after developing furry feature
  • Bemused owner Kate Hazel, 51, was alerted to the cross by her daughter Ros
  • She said someone else saw the shape and said it looks just like St Piran's Cross.
  • Ms Hazel said: 'She's either a reincarnation of St Piran, or the baby Jesus, or both'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ously-appears-rabbits-head.html#ixzz53bNNpoJt
 
ramonmercado said:
Hot Cross Bun-ny! Pet rabbit is hailed as 'the second coming' after a giant crucifix-shape 'mysteriously appears on its head'
  • Brown rabbit Fluff has been branded 'baby Jesus' after developing furry feature
  • Bemused owner Kate Hazel, 51, was alerted to the cross by her daughter Ros
  • She said someone else saw the shape and said it looks just like St Piran's Cross.
  • Ms Hazel said: 'She's either a reincarnation of St Piran, or the baby Jesus, or both'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ously-appears-rabbits-head.html#ixzz53bNNpoJt
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Hydrogen peroxide is certainly useful stuff.
 
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