A Polish environmental charity was stuck with a phone bill of thousands of dollars after losing a GPS tracker placed on a stork. The tracker was subsequently found by a person who removed the SIM card, put it in his own phone, and made over 20 hours worth of phone calls. Tagging animals is standard […] More
After an eight-hour standoff with police, a Florida man told officers he was only shooting at rats in his yard with a rifle. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that neighbors in the Palm Harbor area began reporting hearing gunshots about 3 a.m. Sunday. Deputies heard more shots coming from a […] More
Ellen Frey-Wouters, who died at 88 as a widow and with no children to inherit her $3 million estate in an exclusive section of the Bronx, left the money so her cats, Troy and Tiger, would be well taken care of. According to the New York Post, the Bronx widow left instructions that the funds […] More
A crocodile entered a residential house in India’s eastern state of Odisha, officials said Thursday. The 12-feet long crocodile, weighing 500 kg, was found inside the house of Dasharath Madkami in Malkangiri district, about 650 km southwest of Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha. “It seems the crocodile entered the house of Madkami during night […] More
Conservationists are expressing outrage after an official in Germany ordered hunters to shoot the first wild bison seen in the country in more than two centuries. Calling the killing a criminal offense, the World Wildlife Fund says it will file charges against the official who gave the order, the Local reports. “After more than 250 […] More