animal attack

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 in a state park in the Adirondacks. You had to park your car at a ranger station, sign in, get a canoe, and paddle across the lake to a distant spot. Turns out, I left the lights on in the car during that first part. This will become important in a moment. So, I'm sitting there in front of a little camp fire cooking up some stew. To my right is a bag of food…

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 Creek area in the park's north central area. The bear was 4 - 5 years old and weighed between 100 and 125 pounds. Some observers had mistaken her for a grizzly since it was brown in color. In mid-July, the bear entered an occupied backcountry campsite in the Slough Creek drainage. Attempts to chase her away…

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 emergency services. Police shot the bear dead at the scene. Russia has no animal cruelty laws that pertain to circuses. story here

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 one that mauled a keeper just before Christmas last year. It has now been shot dead. The incident occurred as the zoo was closing around 1700 (0100 GMT). It is not clear how the cat escaped its pen. [source]