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Black bear attacks 74-year-old woman in Connecticut

by PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press April 23, 2023April 23, 2023

A wildlife official says the state’s bear population is growing and the animals “are getting a little too comfortable” around populated areas.

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Elephant dies at Pakistani zoo days after medical procedure

by ADIL JAWAD Associated Press April 22, 2023

Videos of Noor Jehan leaning her head against a tree and struggling to stand caused alarm around the world.

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Boy reunites with dog surrendered during his father’s cancer battle

by Bonnie Washuk April 16, 2023April 16, 2023

Eric Calleja Jr. gets his birthday wish eight months after losing his dad, a 9/11 first responder, to cancer.

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Cow injured, driver unhurt after early-morning collision in Livermore Falls

by Donna M. Perry April 13, 2023April 13, 2023

A Jay man was driving on Fayette Road after 3 a.m. Thursday when he hit the cow, which had gotten loose from a nearby farm and wandered into the road.

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Moose feasts on lobby plants in Alaska hospital building

by MARK THIESSEN Associated Press April 7, 2023April 7, 2023

The moose was too preoccupied with eating the office plants to notice the stir he was causing.

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Scientists discover bizarre type of sex in this ‘crazy’ ant

by Dino Grandoni The Washington Post April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

A species called the yellow crazy ant lives up to its name, with a mode of reproduction ‘unknown to science’ until now, according to a new study in the journal Science.

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Bringing Lolita home: How to release a long-captive orca?

by GENE JOHNSON Associated Press April 4, 2023April 5, 2023

While advocates hope to bring Lolita to a whale sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest, they know she might never again swim freely with her endangered family, including the nearly century-old whale believed to be her mother.