A Paso Robles-based educational traveling zoo is named as a defendant in a Florida lawsuit with a Hampton Inn employee who claims remnants of its animals — lemurs, a spider monkey, an alligator and a parrot — made her sick while they were staying where she worked.
Arlin Valdez-Castillo blames chronic medical problems on exposure [...]
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“You’re creating a hazard for yourself, your neighbors and the animals,” FWC biologist Anni Mitchell said. “It’s a thrill to have animals eat from your hand, but you need to limit that experience to captive animals.”
Feeding wildlife can cause animals to become a nuisance and can be harmful to their health, according to FWC [...]
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Agriculture officials said late Tuesday they’ve found about 4,000 dead cows in portions of two Southeast Texas counties searched in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
Some cows left stranded or that perished might never be found, though. “They’re being eaten by alligators,” said Kathleen Phillips, spokeswoman for the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.
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Brazilian police say they have seized two caimans - small alligator-like reptiles - during an operation against drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro.
They were looking for the leader of a drugs gang in one of Rio’s shanty towns - known as favelas - when they came across the caimans in a backyard.
The police say [...]
Neighbors in Trinity are asking for some help with a gator that lives in a lake in a conservation area near their homes.
But they don’t want the gator removed. They want officials to save it by removing a net around its head.
Neighbors think the net came from a group of kids who’d recently been spotted [...]
Smythson, the Queen’s stationer, has been criticised for selling luxury leather gifts using the skins of rare lizards.
The Bond Street stationer, which employs Samantha Cameron, the wife of the Conservative leader David Cameron, is reportedly selling at least a dozen products made from the [...]
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Kasey Edwards said he never paid “too much mind” to alligators swimming in canals in Okeechobee County.
But early Sunday morning, an 11½-foot alligator had his full attention as Edwards, 18, struggled to free his left arm from the jaws of the reptile.
“It’s a very surreal feeling. You know, feeling like you’re about to die here [...]
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Our 5-year-old cat, Sully, had survived two years in the near-wilds of Montana, where mountain lions also roam, but he couldn’t make it six months in the northwest Denver suburbs. This fat feline disappeared one night in early December, and we knew he was a goner.
Two weeks after his disappearance, we learned that a neighbor [...]
A giant alligator sits motionless by a pool of calm water, a cougar licks his paws under the sun of a warm April day, and two grown tigers pace inside a fenced-in enclosure.
All four animals share a common history.They were all owned as pets by different Miami Valley residents and have been rescued by Preble [...]
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Alligators, venomous snakes and poisonous spiders aren’t welcome in the city, according to The Burton News’ Web site, www.mlive.com/burton.
That’s the word from the city’s legislative committee, which held a special session Wednesday after receiving reports of an alligator in a DeCamp Street house. Committee members recommended adopting a proposed ordinance to ban keeping [...]
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