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Bears held captive by animal trainers, in zoos or carnivals, or kept as pets, have been responsible for several attacks. There have also been unusual cases in which a person entered a bear's cage and was then mauled. Bear attacks are rare in North America. [1] [2] [3] Attacks are for predatory, territorial, or protective reasons. [4]
[1] [2] [3] Mark Bekoff, an American biologist and ethologist coined the term "zoothanasia" to describe zoo culling. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Because animals in zoos are killed for many reasons, such as old age or disease, just as pet animals are often euthanized because of health problems, it is beyond the scope of this list to identify every case where an ...
Source: Business Insider [3] Source: BBC News [4] Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year 1 Mosquitoes: 1,000,000 [a] Mosquitoes 750,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 2 Humans 475,000 Humans (homicide) 437,000 Snakes 50,000 3 Snakes: 50,000 Snakes 100,000 Dogs 25,000 4 Dogs: 25,000 [b] Dogs 35,000 Tsetse flies
Dogs are being killed, poisoned, ... Beatings of animals accounted for more than three in four cruelty complaints, rising by 22 per cent to 9,658. Such reports peaked last August, when 1,081 were ...
The video, recorded by European animal rights group One Voice, was published as part of an investigation into a bullfighting facility in the French city of Nîmes. It's part of the organization's ...
What they found was an animal massacre. In all, 81 creatures — miniature horses, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks and other birds — were killed.
In 2008, a platinum mining compound in the remote Olyotorsky district of northern Kamchatka was besieged by a group of 30 Kamchatka brown bears that killed two guards and prevented workers from leaving their homes. [32] In Scandinavia, only three fatal attacks were recorded in the 20th century. [33]
Foam depopulation or foaming is a means of mass killing farm animals by spraying foam over a large area to obstruct breathing and ultimately cause suffocation. [1] It is usually used to attempt to stop disease spread. [2] Foaming has also been used to kill farm animals after backlogs in slaughtering occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]