Animal Antics

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#14:  End of life care has been started for a beloved polar bear who has been part of the (Salt Lake City, UT) Hogle Zoo family for the past 5 years. 

"Rizzo" a 19-year-old polar bear who has won over the hearts of the Hogle Zoo staff and visitors of all ages, is in renal failure, a condition in which the kidneys cannot filter waste from the blood. 

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UPDATE: DEAD.

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On 4/8/2017 at 20:49, Sir Creep said:

#14:  End of life care has been started for a beloved polar bear who has been part of the (Salt Lake City, UT) Hogle Zoo family for the past 5 years. 

"Rizzo" a 19-year-old polar bear who has won over the hearts of the Hogle Zoo staff and visitors of all ages, is in renal failure, a condition in which the kidneys cannot filter waste from the blood. 

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UPDATE: DEAD.

Very sad indeed! 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Mai, a three-legged tiger at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, has died, the zoo announced Wednesday.  The 20-year-old female Malayan tiger had been under veterinary care for renal disease over the last year. She was humanely euthanized Wednesday morning.

 

Dr. Julie Napier, the zoo’s senior veterinarian, said in the news release, "Mai was leaps and bounds better than the other tigers."

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48 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

Mai, a three-legged tiger at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, has died, the zoo announced Wednesday.  The 20-year-old female Malayan tiger had been under veterinary care for renal disease over the last year. She was humanely euthanized Wednesday morning.

 

Dr. Julie Napier, the zoo’s senior veterinarian, said in the news release, "Mai was leaps and bounds better than the other tigers."

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R.I.P. Mai! 

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'Penny', a 37-year old African elephant at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, SC, had to be euthanized when she unexpectedly and suddenly became ill and collapsed.  She was the star of the annual 'pumpkin smash' so that will be missed.
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#17: 

The Denver Zoo’s king cobra has been having a tough couple of months.

The 18-year-old cobra was diagnosed with cancer, more specifically lymphosarcoma of the skin, in February. With little available research and without examples from others, the zoo didn’t have a ready-made guidebook to follow. Undeterred, the zoo has created its own treatment plan and has so far found success by treating the powerful, 12½ -foot king cobra as if he were an average house cat.

The zoo veterinarian took a treatment plan for domestic cats and adapted it for the king cobra. Using the same chemo that a human may use, the zoo puts a pill down the throat of a dead rodent and feeds it to the snake every three weeks.  So far, the results have been great. The cobra’s blood work shows an improvement, and he has been ravenous, gaining some of the weight he had lost.
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#18: Cinta, one of the Hattiesburg Zoo’s 5-year-old Sumatran twin tigers, passed away Sunday afternoon from a sudden illness. His brother, Kuasa, has not shown any signs of illness and is in good health.

FYI we had twin tigers born in the Lafayette Zoo about 4 years ago, and similarly one of them died after a couple years for seemingly no reason (ended up being a hereditary heart condition).

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[Sir Creep 7,070]

#19:  This evening a resident of Rolling View Dr discovered an uninvited quest in her garage. After a brief chase, involving local animal control and midnight shift officers, the subject, later identified as "Delilah" the donkey, was apprehended and brought back home. Apparently she had just decided to take a midnight stroll around the Connecticut neighborhood.
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#20:  The only elephant in the Lahore Zoo, Suzi, died on Saturday morning.

Imported in 1988, Suzi was a popular attraction at the zoo and had captivated generations of audiences since its inception at the zoo.

Officials at the zoo could not confirm a cause of death before the medical report was made available.

 

 

In 2015 the Lahore Zoo lost the last of the 3 giraffes they imported a mere 8 years earlier (giraffes typically live 20-25 years in captivity).  
So no giraffes and no pachyderms.  What the hell kinda zoo is that?!
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

#21:  

A young girl has been bitten on the leg and back by an alligator while sitting in shallow water at a popular Florida park.

The schoolgirl, 10, was with her family at Moss Park, in southeast Orange County, when she was attacked by an 8 or 9 foot alligator.  

She was in about two-feet-deep water in one of the lakes when the attack happened and her horrified family was close by.

She had puncture wounds but I don’t think they’re life threatening.  Shortly after the incident, officials were able to trap and kill the suspected alligator.

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#22:  A professional big game hunter from Tzaneen, Theunis Botha, 51, died on Friday afternoon during a hunt in Gwai, in Zimbabwe, when a member of his group fired at a storming elephant cow and the animal fell on him.  

A group of hunters had gone for a walk on Friday afternoon when they suddenly came across a breeding herd of elephants.  Three elephant cows stormed the hunters and Botha shot at them. A fourth cow stormed them from the side and one of the hunters shot her after she’d lifted Botha with her trunk. The shot was fatal and as the cow collapsed, she fell on Botha.

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[Sir Creep 7,070]

#23:  A sea lion was recently captured on camera biting a girl's dress around her lower waist as she sat at the edge of on the dock at Steveston Fisherman Wharf in Richmond, British Columbia and dragging her backwards into the ocean. She immediately surfaced, while a man jumped in and rescued her. Her family soon whisked her away.

A Simon Fraser University student filmed the terrifying encounter. He said no one was hurt.
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On 5/21/2017 at 18:28, Sir Creep said:

#22:  A professional big game hunter from Tzaneen, Theunis Botha, 51, died on Friday afternoon during a hunt in Gwai, in Zimbabwe, when a member of his group fired at a storming elephant cow and the animal fell on him.  

A group of hunters had gone for a walk on Friday afternoon when they suddenly came across a breeding herd of elephants.  Three elephant cows stormed the hunters and Botha shot at them. A fourth cow stormed them from the side and one of the hunters shot her after she’d lifted Botha with her trunk. The shot was fatal and as the cow collapsed, she fell on Botha.

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Sometimes the animals need to win too.  

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#24:  A woman was taken to the hospital after being attacked by a moose in the Eaglewood neighborhood of Eagle River on Monday evening.

According to the Anchorage Police Department, the woman suffered non life threatening injuries in the incident.   A police dispatcher said Monday evening the moose left the immediate area after the confrontation. The moose was apparently a cow with two calves.

Greg Beck said his sister was walking her two dogs when the moose apparently attacked. He didn’t know much about what happened, but said the attack was bad enough to put her in the intensive care unit with “a bunch of broken ribs and lacerations.”  Beck said his sister needed help finding her cell phone (gotta have priorities!) and glasses Tuesday.

 

Didn't we show that walking dogs was a catalyst in over 50% of all bovine attacks?  Looks like moose hate em too.
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27 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

Didn't we show that walking dogs was a catalyst in over 50% of all bovine attacks?  Looks like moose hate em too.

 

I think we also showed that more people who have dogs go walking in the countryside than people who don't have dogs.

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#25 (halfway there!):

Here's a zoo with a bad omen.
 

One of Lehigh Valley Zoo's newest additions died Sunday at around 1 p.m.

Ernie, a 6-year old Masai giraffe, died of injuries sustained to his neck just two days after arriving at the zoo, according to a news release from zoo officials. Ernie had been separated from his father, Murphy, after becoming aggressive toward his parent for unknown reasons on Friday.

 

Bringing the Masai giraffes to the Lehigh Valley Zoo was a part of a $3.8 million investement that saved the zoo from closing.  The giraffe exhibit alone cost around $700,000, but was expected to generate around $400,000 in revenue annually. 

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#26:  One of the peregrine falcons born in Kalamazoo (MI) this spring has died.  The male peregrine falcon flew into a bank of windows at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine and died Sunday, June 18. The bird was being treated for being a dumbass weak flier at Braveheart Raptor Rehabilitation Center in Twin Lake, and had been released back in Kalamazoo Friday, June 16.

Flew into a medical building...Ironic Animal Deaths new category.

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#27: Save the 'Crunchy Frog' resets.  Well, ok, go for it.
 

Officials with the BJ's Restaurants chain said they're investigating how a dead frog wound up in a diner's salad at one of the company's locations in West Covina. 

Shawna Cepeda posted a picture of her salad with a frog that appeared to be the size of two croutons in a Yelp review on June 14. Cepeda couldn't be reached Saturday, but in her Yelp post she said she ate at the restaurant the previous night and ordered a side salad.

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#27-1: A McDonald’s customer took a bite into a Chicken Legend Burger only to chow down on a dead moth.

 

And now for something completely different:

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

#28: I don't know how many wrongs make a right, but we now know that 6 rights make a wrong.

 

Since June 7, six North Atlantic right whales have been found dead, floating in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in a loss that amounts to more than one per cent of the population of the endangered species.  The whales were all found in the area between New Brunswick's Miscou Island, Quebec's Magdalen Islands and northern P.E.I.
To put that into context, if one per cent of humans were to die, that would be over 75 million people.

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#29: One Indian state recently launched a private ambulance service for injured cattle.

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#30: Theodore Schrader, 74, and Patsy Holmes, 72, from Heber City, UT, were taking photographs on a boardwalk at Mud Volcano (Yellowstone National Park), when a bison approached them. The bison butted Holmes, who then fell into Schrader and both individuals fell to the ground.

This is the first confirmed incident of a bison injuring visitors in 2017.  In 2015, five people were injured after approaching bison.   
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#31: A local cricket match in Cheshire, England witnessed a strange interruption as a cow ran on to the field and caused a disruption. 
A number of other cricket matches being interrupted by animals are mentioned as well.
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#31: House cat (and owner) hit by lightning.  Well OK, just their house.  Cool video and everyone survives just fine.

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#32: Miss Countess, a Red Angus on the Lonesome Creek Ranch in Hillsboro (KS), performed quite a feat in giving birth to live triplets about three weeks ago. Carl Garten, director of the Central Kansas Extension District, said cattle triplets occur once in 105,000 births.
And there’s only a 25 percent chance that triplets will be born alive, said ranch owner Darren Schrag.  “All three of them were born fine, which is unheard of,” Schrag said. “As soon as they came out, they were up running around."
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