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read the story here and view the video SAN FRANCISCO - Wildlife officials credited a woman with saving her husband's life by clubbing a mountain lion that attacked him while the couple were hiking in a California state park.
Jim and Nell Hamm, who will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary next month, were hiking in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park when the lion pounced, officials said Thursday. "He didn't scream. It
was a different, horrible plea for help, and I turned around,
and by then the cat had wrestled Jim to the ground," Nell
Hamm said in an interview from the hospital where her husband
was recovering from a torn scalp, puncture wounds and other injuries. Town issues wolves warning:(local paper January 2007) Marathon, Ontario: Parents are being advised not to let children play alone in this northwestern Ontario town's greenbelt areas as a local wolf crackdown continues. "We don't want to alarm anybody, but my concern is for smaller kids who might be out at night in the fringe areas," town bylaw officer Doug Vincent said yesterday. So far this month a trapper caught three of the wily animals, which have been spotted on Marathons' residential streets, cross -country skiing trails and around elementary schools. Wolves suspected in Ontario
man's death CTV.ca News Staff Police say they suspect wolves are responsible for the death of an Ontario student whose mauled body was discovered in northern Saskatchewan. RCMP spokeswoman Heather Russell said the 22-year-old man, from Oshawa, died Tuesday evening while out walking in woods near a mining camp. "Our understanding is he said he was going out for a walk and said he would be back around 5 o'clock," she told Durham Region News. When the man failed to return, other workers in the camp went to look for him. "His body was found around 7 o'clock," Russell said.If it's confirmed that the death was the result of a wolf attack, it would be the first one in recent history in North America. A 2002 study of wolf attacks in Alaska and Canada done by the Alaska Fish and Game Department found no examples of human deaths resulting from wolf attacks for more than 100 years. Although RCMP are still investigating the cause of death, an autopsy has confirmed the victim's injuries were consistent with an animal attack. "There's no evidence to the contrary," Russell added. "All of the injuries at autopsy were consistent with animals." Bill Topping, who makes routine hauling trips to the hinterland regions south of the Northwest Territories border, told The StarPhoenix he had no doubt that wolves were responsible for the student's death. "I've been up there three or four times in the past week and I've had some close encounters with wolves. They're everywhere," he said. "A bear you can hear walking up and sniffing around. But wolves are sneaky. They're smart, they're fast and they're deadly. They lay in wait," he added. "That guy wouldn't know what hit him. That's the scary thing." The victim, a third-year student of geological engineering at the University of Waterloo, was working in a mining camp at Points North Landing in Saskatchewan's far north, near the Northwest Territories border. The rugged area is inhabited mainly by hunters and miners and for most of the year is accessible only by air. Russell said that while incidents of wolves attacking humans are rare, they are not unheard of in the province. "Last January there was a man at a mine in the same general area who was attacked," she said, adding that he managed to fight the wolves off with the help of others. A funeral service for the victim
will be held on Monday Thursday, April 27, 2006 · Last updated 5:52 a.m. PT Two young boys nipped by coyote in Seattle suburb THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Two small boys were nipped by a coyote in this suburb east of Seattle, and state wildlife officers were setting traps to try to catch and euthanize the animal. Jacob Town, 4, nor Tristan Bec, 18 months, were released following treated for minor puncture wounds and scratches at hospitals and were started on a series of rabies shots as a precaution. Baby's mother recalls coyote
attack The child is now at home again, after being released from hospital. Half her face is stitched up and swollen. The mother who doesn't speak English, speaks through her 16 year old daughter Anna. She has a message for other parents. "Take care of the child when they're playing outside and make sure that some adult is staying with them," says Chan. She says she wants all the coyotes in the Lower Mainland tracked down and killed. Vancouver Mayor Philip Owen also wants to get rid of the coyotes. He says if the they can't be tranquillized and relocated, then he's in favour of killing the animals. Wildlife officials say they are considering stepping up efforts to catch the most aggressive animals. Jackson Hole, WY March 19, 2002 `Wyoming Citizens, My wife and I went snow machining up the Gros Ventre last Friday March 15. Saw 4 wolves run across the road in front of us just east of the Red Rock ranch. Stopped and talked to two volunteers from federal fish and wildlife service, one from Maine and one from North Dakota. Noticed elk tracks everywhere. ( very unusual) Asked how many wolves were here? "About 13" How many elk are they killing? "Three or more a night" (not counting pregnant cows aborting because of being run and stressed.) Continued up the road, appalled by the amount of running elk tracks everywhere. (They have been conditioned for years to stay on the feed grounds) Stopped at the Goose Wing feed grounds. Pile of about 20 to 30 dead elk (cows and calves) by the road pulled there by elk feeders. Some had small amounts of flesh eaten (10 to 15) pounds from hind quarters, left to die. Others caught by nose. Nose, lips and tongue eaten off and left to die. Wounded and stressed elk laying away from herd, unable to get up. (4 or more)Threw up---went home---haven't slept since. Folks, night after night Canadian wolves are killing (not eating) your local elk herds. Don't let the elk go the way of the American Bison!!! Stop the carnage before it's to late! It's worse than you have been led to believe. Jerry Wilson Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:37 PM Subject: Re: I am taken to task about my wolf article - and a chance to post your info on wolves. The truth is wolves are killing machines, they are the ultimate predator in North America. They are not even surpassed by the grizzly bear. Do the research! You will find wolves are not conservationists, they are known to kill everything in the ecosystem starting with prey first, then other predators, then start killing each other because they are cannibals. You want to discuss cattle not being killed in a humane way, in comparison to wolves there is none. Wolves are addictive "Sport Killers" this takes place during the winter in heavy snow, the deeper snow the more "Sport Killing" deer and elk carcasses literally slaughtered for miles on snow-covered logging roads, (two dead elk approximately 150 feet apart), only hind quarters ripped out not eating any of their prey, the carcass left to rot for scavengers, and in many cases the animals are left standing alive bleeding a torturous death in the snow for several days with only hindquarters torn out. It is a very slow and excruciating painful death. This happens routinely while teaching young pup wolves how to hunt. It has been widely discussed whether a healthy wild wolf has ever attacked a human on this continent. In fact, many say such attacks have never occurred in North America. HISTORY STATES OTHERWISE! It depends on what century you want to research wolves attacking and killing humans, 1800's, 1900's or 2000's. Noted naturalist, John James Audubon, of whom the Audubon society is named, reported an attack involving two black men traveling through part of Kentucky near the Ohio border in the winter. The two men were carry axes when they were viciously attacked by a pack of wolves one man was severely wounded and one man was killed, this occurred about 1830 ( Audubon,J.J.. and Bachman,J,: The Quadrupeds of North America. 3 volumes. New York, 1851-1854) In northwestern Colorado, an 18-year-old girl was viciously attacked while bringing in milk cows, she screamed and her brother, who was nearby armed with a gun responded to the scene and killed the Wolf. The wolf was a healthy young animal barely full-grown. This occurred in the summer about 1881 ( Grinnell,G.B; The Trail and Campfire- Wolves and Wolf Nature, New York, 1897) In1942, Michael Dusiak, section foreman for the Canadian Pacific Railway, was attacked by a wolf, the wolf was killed by the trains engineer, and a firemen with picks and other tools. It should be noted that this wolf was scanned and inspected by an Investigator Chrichton, a Conservation Officer. His assessment was the animal was young healthy and in good condition. ( " A Record of Timber Wolf Attacking Man"Journal Of Mammology, Vol. 28, No. 3, August 1947) (Here are) some examples from British Columbia. Wolves overran Vancouver Island in the 1980's. Attacks became so common that articles were published in Canadian magazines documenting such attacks. Aug., 1987 a 16-year-old girl was bitten by a wolf in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, she was bitten on the arm, clothing prevented severe lacerations. The wolf was shot by the Natural Resources personnel and tested negative for rabies. (Interview with Ron Tozer, Park Naturalist for Algonquin Provincial Park, July 25, 1988) In August, 1996 eleven-year-old Zack Delventhal was viciously attacked, the boys face had been ripped open, his nose was crushed, parts of his mouth and right cheek were torn. Blood gushed from puncture wounds below his eyes, and the lower part of his right ear was missing and dangling. The wolf was killed by Park authorities and found to be a young healthy adult male wolf ( Cook, Kathy; " Night of the Wolf " Readers Digest, July 1997 p. pp. 114-119) (In) Sports Afield Magazine, December 2000 January 2001 issue turn to page 21 you will see a picture of a six-year-old boy lying in a hospital bed viciously attacked by a healthy male wolf. It was killed by loggers near his camp. Also this same article reports a 22-year-old man in his sleeping bag on a beach near Vancouver BC he was also viciously attacked by a healthy male wolf, the wolf was killed by Canadian officials. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is fully aware of numerous more documented attacks in North America by wolves, yet they refuse to write a rebuttal to (the) fictitious statements (that) wolves (are) not attacking humans, instead it is posted on their children's web site that wolves don't attack humans! And the list goes on. Wolves are known as man eaters throughout the world. See Peter Chapstick's book titled ( Man Eaters). John Nelson ~~~~~~~~~~ The End of Big Game Hunting?
Maybe. I've been studying more of the research by Professor Warren Ballard in Alaska. Ballard's studies documented that wolves will kill about 30 moose per year (per wolf), and he is careful to say that this is a low number because the researchers probably missed some kills with their survey methodology. If you calculate biomass, it will probably take 60 or more elk to provide the same biomass as 30 moose. And, this doesn't include such well-documented phenomenon as "surplus killing" and "sport killing" by wolves. Further, in order to obtain this much biomass, Alaskan wolves were killing an inordinate number of young moose. This has, of course, profound implications for the population dynamics of Montana elk herds. That's exactly why the calf/cow ratio is now so bad in areas with wolves, such as in the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd, as we've known all along. It is also interesting to note that Ballard found no evidence of sickness or debility among any moose killed by wolves. So, given the research done to date, if wolves are not aggressively controlled, and soon, devastation of Montana elk, deer, sheep, moose and goat populations, and livestock, is a reasonable projection. While deer, elk, moose, sheep and goats may not be wiped out to the last animal, uncontrolled wolves will certainly not leave enough for human hunters to be allowed to hunt. ~~~~~~~~~~ Bear Kills 6-Year-Old Girl in Tennessee By THEO EMERY The adult black bear attacked the mother and her two children Thursday afternoon at a waterfall in Cherokee National Forest. The children had been playing in a pool at the base of the falls, about a mile up a trail from where they had parked, said Dan Hicks, a spokesman for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Officials tried to track the bear with dogs overnight, but gave up early this morning and resorted to setting traps, Mr. Hicks said. There was no sign of the animal by late afternoon. "Each minute that ticks away makes us concerned that it may travel outside of this area," Mr. Hicks said in a phone interview. "It may be territorial, and not have traveled at all. It may be laying down here 20 feet from where I'm standing." Both the mother and son were at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, where the boy was in critical but stable condition after surgery and the mother was in critical condition, according to a hospital spokesman. Both were treated for possible exposure to rabies. Mr. Hicks said the authorities were not releasing identities of thevictims, other than to say that they were from Ohio, where the woman's husband had stayed. The dead girl's father, who was also not identified, was from Florida. Both men came to Tennessee after the attack. The only other documented fatal bear attack in Tennessee was in 2000, when a woman was killed in nearby Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Mr. Hicks said. Cherokee National Forest is a 640,000-acre area in mountainous eastern Tennessee. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park divides the national forest, which sits astride the border with North Carolina. Mr. Hicks said bear encounters
are most common this time of year, and bear sightings have increased
in recent weeks in the area of the attack. Most complaints about
bears in the forest originate at the campground near the waterfall.
The mother and her children were playing at the waterfall with
other families at about 4 p.m. when another family encountered
the bear. The family retreated to the pool, but the bear apparently
tracked them, bursting out of the brush near the waterfall. As
adults tried to scare the animal away, it seized the 2-year-old
boy's head in its jaws. The mother tried to fight it off, and
the animal grabbed her instead and dragged her into the woods.
One of the other people at the falls managed to make an emergency
call. In the ensuing chaos, the little girl apparently fled.
When responders arrived, one of them found the bear hovering
over the little girl's body in the woods. The bear fled after
when a member of a local rescue squadfired at the animal with
a pistol, but it wasn't immediately clear that it was hit. Mr.
Hicks said there was no explanation for the attack. EDMONTON - A 10-year-old boy was attacked by a coyote Saturday evening before his best friend charged in to kick and punch the animal in the head. David Burnett and Marshall Davis, both 10, were having a snowball fight with two friends in the backyard of Davis's suburban Edmonton home when a coyote interrupted their play. The four boys ran, and Burnett either tripped or was pulled down by the animal. He was bit several times in the leg, but Davis ran back to help. ''I yelled at it and the coyote started running after me,'' Davis said. ''Then I kicked it and punched it and it ran away.'' Residents had seen the coyote eating garbage and walking the streets in the neighbourhood frequently in the past week, said Davis's father Gary. ''It just looked like a little innocent dog,'' Burnett said. But when it interrupted the snowball fight, its teeth were bared. Gary Davis heard the commotion from inside the house when the boys started banging on the window. His wife, Kerri, called the police, who cornered the animal in the backyard. Fish and Wildlife officers shot it and took it to a lab to be tested for rabies, but the animal looked healthy, said Dave Ealey, spokesman for Alberta Sustainable Resource Development and Fish and Wildlife officers. Although coyotes live in many of Edmonton's natural spaces, coyote attacks are very rare. Edmonton Journal David Burnett, left, shows
where he was bitten by a coyote 128th Street. His friend, Marshall
Davis, right, says he kicked and punched the coyote to stop the
attack. "I thought if I'd run away, David would die,"
Marshall says. "So I just decided to stay."
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