Animal Thread

I say, that’s just not cricket! Competitors gather in China to do battle in the National Cricket Fighting Championships

The sport is similar to cock fighting and has been played for 1,000 years
The crickets are highly trained and can change hands of £1,000
Their owners goad them with sticks before unleashing them to do battle

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456031/Competitors-gather-China-National-Cricket-Fighting-Championships.html#ixzz2kKhPgOj1

Express train kills 40th elephant in less than 10 years as calls are made to restrict speed limits on the notorious stretch of line

The magnificent creature was mowed down in West Bengal yesterday
It is the 40th casualty since the track was upgraded in 2004
Calls have been made to reduce the speed limit to 25km along the track

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2455641/India-express-train-kills-40th-elephant-10-years.html#ixzz2kKiZ9EJq

Stories like this baffle me. Mountain Goats dont even look like there anatomically designed to climb such steep barriers.

The death-defying goats that don’t give a dam! Animals scale Italian lake’s near-vertical barrier to lick stones for their minerals

The Gran Paradiso National Park in Northern Italy attracted a herd of death-defying goats
Photographer Paolo Seimandi, 34, captured the moment the herd of alpine ibexes decided to scale the brick wall
 It is thought the goats are actually grazing, licking the stones for their salts and minerals

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2460992/Goats-defy-death-scale-dam-Italian-lake-Gran-Paradiso-National-Park.html#ixzz2kKjWm8LE

Shortcut? We’ll take the trunk road! Elephants slide down steep bank to get to watering hole

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You may now eat the bride! Hilarious moment an elephant grabbed hold of woman at her own wedding and put her HEAD in its mouth

 Bizarre encounter came as the Australian woman was tying the knot in Phuket, Thailand

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2460753/Hilarious-moment-elephant-brides-HEAD-mouth-wedding-day.html#ixzz2kKpTd51v

Maybe he was looking for cheese on toast: Mouse rescued from kitchen appliance after getting stuck while feasting on crumbs

Rodent got stuck in toaster after feasting on crumbs
RSPCA called to the scene to rescue mouse from toaster wire

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2461711/Mouse-rescued-toaster.html#ixzz2kKqJAH7l

The lioness who hugs hoodies: Amazing pictures of abandoned big cat and her heartwarming bond with men who saved her

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newly discovered squid

lmao, that’s my old halls, I was in charge of a whole block of students. Never had to deal with anything like that though :rofl:

This looks like something straight out of a scifi film, creepy.

Terrifying moment British teacher is gored by an elephant through her CAR as it flips it with its trunk on a Safari park’s dirt road

Sarah Brooks from Spalding, Lincolnshire was injured last week
Elephant's tusk ripped through the back of Ms Brooks' upper thigh
Their car rolled three times and was flung 40 metres in the attack
Ms Brooks is in a stable condition in hospital

This is the moment an enraged bull elephant flipped over a car containing a British teacher and her fiance during an African safari.

Sarah Brooks, 30, and her fiance were filming the animal from their car as it drank at a waterhole when it turned and went for them.

It flipped their vehicle and shunted it around 130ft down a track into thick bushland.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537114/British-teacher-terrifying-ordeal-bull-elephant-filming-Kruger-National-Park-charges-vehicle-gorging-leg-tusk.html#ixzz2qOIgtrAw

Whoever’s holding that camera needs to stop holding camera’s for the rest of his/her life. Point the camera at the elephant when its not doing anything, then point the camera in a different direction the moment the elephant starts flipping the car… who am I kidding we all know its a woman holding that camera.

Ten people savaged by flesh-eating piranhas in Argentinian river as they tried to cool off in blistering 41C heat

Attack occurred in same Argentine river where 70 were injured last month
Vicious, sharp-toothed creatures known as palometas, a species of piranha
Experts say hot weather and lower number of predators could be to blame

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At least 10 people have been injured by piranhas in the same Argentine river where a similar attack by the carnivorous fish occurred last month.

The vicious creatures, known as palometas, have been attacking bathers since Thursday at the Parana River in Rosario, which is 186 miles north-east of Buenos Aires.

Seventy people were bitten by the shoal of meat-eating fish in late December as they attempted to cool off from the unusually high summer temperatures.

Caught On Camera: Snake Devours Crocodile After 5 Hour Battle

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Dogs react to magic


Ram with a GoPro camera attached to it trolls the dirt roads preventing biker from passing.

two crows instigate a fight between two cats. Footage comes with it’s own movie score :rofl:

Nature you so damn scary!
Chef prepares dead cobra meal, severed head comes back to life and kills chef!

‘Drunk’ man mauled to death by white tiger after leaping into its enclosure at Delhi zoo

Man killed by white tiger after jumping into enclosure at New Delhi Zoo
Victim was 'grabbed by the neck and dragged round tiger enclosure'
According to officials the man appeared to be under the influence of alcohol

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Lethal jump: The man, named locally as Maqsood, 22, faces the white tiger in its enclosure at National Zoological Park in New Delhi

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Witnesses say the man entered the enclosure despite several attempts by security to keep him from the tigers

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2766329/Indian-zoo-Tiger-killed-man-climbed-moat.html#ixzz3EBtBpDQi

**Danish zookeepers kill healthy baby giraffe with a bolt gun because he was ‘surplus to requirements’ - then feed him to the LIONS
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Marius was shot with a bolt gun at Copenhagen Zoo
Spokesman said they were unable to find Marius a home at another zoo
Thousands had signed petitions appealing for a change of heart
Yorkshire Wildlife Park reportedly put in a last-ditch offer to take Marius in

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2555079/Danish-zoo-kills-young-giraffe-deemed-surplus-feeds-lions.html#ixzz3EBuLyDe1
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