Franska the bear makes enemies in French Pyrenees
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Her name is Franska, one of five Slovenian brown bears introduced in the French Pyrenees mountains last year in a conservation programme that has gone awry.
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The bald eagle is out of the woods but  other birds of prey are in trouble.
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While nosing around the Quaternary mammal collection at the Provincial Museum of Alberta two years ago, Paul Matheus, a paleontologist with the Alaska Quaternary Center, came across a brown bear fossil that seemed out of place.
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HELEN, Ga. - A camping trip to Low Gap Camp Grounds turned into a harrowing experience for Chris Everhart and his three sons when they tangled with a 300-pound black bear. But the encounter last weekend proved fatal for the bear.
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French troops traded fire with gunmen  who attacked them in northern Ivory Coast on Tuesday, the  French army said -- the latest challenge to peacekeepers  shoring up a peace deal in the divided West African country.
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Now for the hard part. Having made it through fast and dangerous racing during the opening flat stages of the Tour de France, riders veer Wednesday into the Pyrenees for their first encounter with the high mountains.
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Brigitte Bardot has condemned a new Geneva law requiring all dogs to be muzzled in public parks, adopted this week after a pit bull attacked a toddler.
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The bald eagle is out of the woods but other birds of prey are in trouble.
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It is one of the oldest conflicts between man and beast: farmers killing marauders such as wolves, lynxes, lions and leopards to defend their livestock from the predators.
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VERNON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - An animal rights activist protesting the state's bear control methods locked herself into a bear trap Monday before being arrested...
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In the cold November night visitors to the Dutch maritime museum were greeted by howling polar bears while the animals in Artis zoo were awoken by torchlight during the Amsterdam Museum Night Saturday.
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A number of French women living in Ivory Coast were raped during anti-French violence in France&#39;s former West African colony over the past week, Foreign Ministry spokesman Herve Ladsous said in Paris.
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France suspended hunting in the western Pyrenees on Wednesday to save a bear cub orphaned when his mother, the last female bear native to the region, was killed by hunters earlier this week.
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A bear attacked a group of U.S. tourists on a remote trail in the Carpathian Mountains, killing a woman and injuring two other people, authorities said Sunday.
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Chased into the Lake Superior shallows, mauled and left for dead by fellow wolves, the young female struggled to shore and collapsed.
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An author who has written books on grizzlies has survived an attack by one of the bears in America&#39;s famed Yellowstone National Park, the National Park Service said on Thursday.
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As the UK debate on hunting with hounds rages on some people are travelling to France where the hunting tradition is still strong.