Category: Nature
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Girl tries to save squirrel from swimming pool, plan backfires
“I called my daughter outside to see a squirrel trapped in my granddaughter’s kiddie pool; and of course, being the animal lover she is, she had to attempt a rescue. The squirrel was not quite as grateful as she had hoped! It leaps at her face as she recoils in horror and runs away screaming.…
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Hunt down sharks to protect surfers? The dilemma facing France’s Reunion Island
It is a sobering statistic: eleven deaths at sea in ten years. Along the coastline of France’s Reunion Island, surfers, but also swimmers, are regularly attacked and sometimes killed by sharks. For the island paradise, it’s a problem that’s causing major concern for the surfing community and the tourism sector. Our reporters Clovis Casali and Julien Sauvaget…
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4 Sharks Seen Close to Miami Beach Shoreline
With the lockdown going into its third month in some states, more evidence of nature returning to its pre-human state can be seen on beaches. Many swimming spots have been closed for months, and as they reopen, people are warned to be on the lookout for sharks. Animal Planet Wildlife Biologist Forrest Galante says that…
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Bhopal: Crocodile attacks swimmer in Kaliasot Dam, friend saves his life
Two friends, out for a day of swimming (illegally) in Kaliasot Dam in Bhopal, got more adventure than they bargained for when a crocodile tried to make a meal of one of them on Tuesday. The croc clamped its jaws on the right thigh of 30-year-old Amit Jatav. But his friend Gajendra Yadav’s courage, and…
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Alligator Found Swimming In Florida Family’s Pool
A Florida family captured video of an alligator trespassing on their property and taking a dip in their backyard swimming pool. Carlos Rivera said he had to convince his family he wasn’t pranking them when he alerted them to the gator swimming in the pool behind their Hillsborough County home. “I noticed there was a…
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Swimmers and surfers ‘playing Russian roulette’ with sharks off NSW coast
The death of a 60-year-old man in northern New South Wales has “once again exposed the absurdity†of ineffective shark control measures at some beaches around the country says Sky News host Peter Gleeson.