Mysterious death of 500 fish in German lake blamed on urinating swimmers. (video)

Urinating swimmers have been blamed for the death of 500 fish in Northern Germany's Eichbaum lake.

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Feral Pigs (whose ancestors were domesticated) can be very destructive when introduced to foreign habitats. Pigs destroy native plants as they dig for food, and, when traveling in herds, can create wallows! In addition, when Feral Pigs dig, they often uproot native plants and spread the seeds of invasive plants. They eat native animals, such as ground nesting birds, and also act as crop pests.
  
Feral Pigs eat many kids of food, including roots, crayfish, frogs, snakes, salamanders, mice, birds, and even baby deer! In areas with oak trees, Feral Pigs love to eat acorns.

ABC News' Suzan Clarke and Alyssa Newcomb report:
 
The woman who was mauled by cheetahs at a South African game preserve said she was "quite traumatized" by the  incident.
 
The woman tried to play dead as the two supposedly tame animals bit and clawed her head, stomach and legs.
 
"I just remember … something biting my head and dragging me down," Violet D'Mello said in an interview with Caters News Agency.

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Do not be alarmed, but the cannibal shrimp invasion has begun.
 
The influx of the jumbo-sized shrimp (which look more like a small lobster than the little pink crustaceans you see at the grocery store) has increased 10 times in the last year, according to a report from the U.S. Geological Survey—from 32 in 2010 to 331 in 2011. The shrimp-eating shrimp have been spotted in waters from North Carolina to Texas.
 
Tony Reisinger of the Texas Sea Grant Extension Service, told CNN that the tiger prawn "are cannibalistic as are other shrimp, but it's larger so it can consume the others."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/cannibal-shrimp-invasion-begun-165542739.html

A lone dolphin has spent the past several days residing in a California coastal bay after several reports suggest it was "bullied" by a pod of fellow dolphins that were blocking its return to the open sea.
 
"He was scared, he was intimidated, he was bullied," Peter Wallerstein of the Marine Animal Rescue told the Los Angeles Times.
 
At first, wildlife officials tried encouraging "Bolsa Chica Bob" to return to sea. But when the dolphin, who is nicknamed after the section of wetlands he has been taking shelter in, tried returning to the ocean he was met by two other dolphins who blocked his path.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/bullied-dolphin-hiding-pushy-pod-officials-165111005.html

Ostrich escapes onto highway (video)

http://tv.yahoo.com/daytime/escaped-ostrich-outruns-cars-29192730.html

A young bear that became an Internet sensation after falling from a tree has died after being hit by a car. It was a whirlwind week for the bear, which shot to prominence last week when it climbed into a tree near the University of Colorado campus, then fell to safety after being tranquilized by local police.

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Another interesting relative of our domestic cat is the common leopard, smaller than the lion and tiger (but larger than any other spotted cat. Some leopards reach a length of seven and a half feet, This sleek cat once ranged from Europe to Japan and southward through all Asia and Africa. Today, the leopard has been squeezed into limited range in Africa and southern Asia. 

 (Leopards have yellowish-tan or reddish-buff coats, with many dark spots which are always arranged in rosette like patterns or groupMelanistic, or black, leopards are by no means rare; however, no albinos have been reported. A distinguishing feature of the leopard is its eyes. They are quite unlike those of other cats. When contracted in bright light, the pupils appear circular in shape. Those of others cats are linear or straight. 

African leopards inhabit the jungles and veldts from the Mediterranean Sea to the Cape. In Asia, leopards frequent both plains and jungles. One subspecies, the Mountain Leopard, lives in the mountainous regions of India. A first-rate climber, the leopard is extremely fast and agile as it hurtles down from its perch hidden in the foliage oaf tree. It usually preys upon large and small mammals, occasionally attacking man. The leopard roars, as do the tiger and lion, but witless volume than either of the other two great cats.

WNEP-TV meteorologist Kurt Aaron was on the set, ready to deliver his news station's 11 p.m. weather forecast when he spotted an uninvited guest on the set: A large black bear.
 
"I hear this sound and I turn around and the bear is literally 10 feet in front of me.," Aaron said live on air after the bears were spotted. "And I ran like I stole something. I'm not going to lie."
 
The mother bear and her three cubs walked onto the outdoor weather set in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The family of bears continued to walk through the outdoor set, which is built to resemble an actual forest.

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Four new species of crab have been discovered in the Philippine island of Palawan. And one of the crabs truly stands out with its unusually bright purple shell.
 
National Geographic reports that the Insulamon palawanese may use its uniquely colored shell to help identify its own kind.
 
"It is known that crabs can discriminate colours. Therefore, it seems likely that the colouration has a signal function for the social behaviour, e.g. mating," Hendrik Freitag of the Senckenberg Museum of Zoology in Dresden, Germany told AFP.

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Russian scientists have released footage of what's believed to be the world's only all-white adult male orca, which belongs to a small pod known to inhabit waters off Russia's Commander Islands in the Bering Sea. The orca was named "Iceberg" because of the way its towering white dorsal fin broke the surface of the chilly waters east of the Kamchatka Peninsula

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