Elephant fatally crushes circus worker in Australia: police
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A elephant crushed a circus worker to death in Australia Thursday as it was being unloaded from a truck, police said.
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DENVER, Feb. 24 -- A zookeeper at the Denver Zoo died Saturday after a 140-pound jaguar mauled her in its enclosure. The animal was fatally shot when it approached armed emergency workers attempting to treat the injured woman, the zoo said.
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A scare triggered by a vibrating sex toy shut down a major Australian regional airport for almost an hour Monday, police said. The vibrating object was discovered Monday morning
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A male panda at the Beijing Zoo once bitten by a drunk tourist attacked a teenager, ripping chunks out of the boy's legs, officials and a newspaper said Tuesday
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An African elephant, which collapsed and died at the Los Angeles Zoo this week, suffered a heart attack, officials said on Wednesday, and animal rights activists said the death underscored the risks of confining the large mammals in urban zoos.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - A Taiwanese theme park has dropped a plan to use a cable made of 320,000 human hairs to lift an elephant, a report said Friday. The United Daily News said the theme park made the decision after critics said the act could scare the animal.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Three people driving through a Thai national park got too close for comfort to a herd of wild elephants who kicked and damaged their vehicles, authorities said Thursday.    The two men and one woman, driving in two pickup trucks through the Khao Yai National Park Wednesday evening, encountered a herd of more than 10 wild elephants, looking for food on the side of the road, said a national park official, speaking on condition of anonymity...
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Tame female flees Indian circus with wild bull elephant that broke open a gate and led her into the jungle.
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FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind. - A 6-foot-tall kangaroo that surprised residents as it bounded through rural central Indiana during the weekend died Monday after authorities used a tranquilizer dart was used to capture it.
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Construction crews working at Beijing's main airport unearthed a fossilized thigh bone of an elephant that lived 30,000 years ago, a news report said Thursday.
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India&#39;s most wanted bandit, accused of murdering police officers, slaughtering elephants and smuggling millions of dollars of illegal sandalwood and ivory, was killed Monday night
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Illegal poaching and demand from Western zoos are fueling the extinction of the Asian elephant, animal welfare groups said Thursday.
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MORE than 120 passengers were injured when a high-speed train derailed, slammed into trees and ploughed through fields in eastern Australia.
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A zookeeper died Saturday after a 140-pound jaguar mauled her in its enclosure, and the big cat was fatally shot when it approached emergency workers treating the injured woman, the zoo said.
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Australian authorities are considering extending the nationwide ban on horse movement after the country's first outbreak of equine influenza outbreak began to spread out of control.
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Tens of thousands of iconic Australian creatures including koalas and kangaroos may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Australia this week, environmentalists say.
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BEIJING, July 23 (Reuters Life!) - A Chinese "elephant man" with a crippling 15 kg (33 lb) tumor drooping from his head and face -- the biggest on record -- undergoes life-threatening surgery on Tuesday to have it removed.