Category: Animal Attacks
Animals eating1 people has always been an interest of mine, and bear attacks are among my favorite. As you know, I've got a few of my own stories, though I don 't know if I ever told this one. There were two of us canoe-camping...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 6:02 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Animal Attacks
Park mangers say they euthanized "an aggressive, habituated, and human-food-conditioned black bear" Tuesday out of "concern for visitor safety." But it was also a result of stupid people making unnatural food available to the bear. The adult female bear had been seen frequenting the Slough...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 9:18 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adolf Hitler
I have an ex facebook friend with no sense of proportion, no sense of humor, and very little sense of her own lack of importance. We disagreed on guns. She wants unfettered gun ownership. We disagree, apparently, on anthropogenic global warming. She thinks its made...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 10:25 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mammals
A nostalgic post, reposted. Nostalgically....
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Category: Animal Attacks
A Russian circus troupe were rehearsing for a performance in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, when the incident happened. Workers had to drag the bear away during the attack, according to the director of the arena, Kurmangazy Isanayev. The exits were closed off as staff waited for the...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 1:32 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Animal Attacks
One person has been killed and two others injured after a tiger escaped from its cage at San Francisco Zoo. All of the victims were visitors to the zoo, a spokesman for San Francisco emergency services said. The Siberian tiger, named Tatiana, was the same...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 10:27 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks