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Unlike Phil and other Groundhog day animals, Henrietta determines the end of winter through egg-laying. If Henrietta lays an egg during the farm's Groundhog Day ceremony, it's the signal for early ...
During a Major League Baseball Yankees-Blue Jays game at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, Yankees right fielder Dave Winfield threw a warm-up ball which hit a seagull, killing it. After the game, Toronto police charged Winfield with causing "unnecessary suffering of an animal". The charges were dropped the following day. [11] [12] Cocaine Bear: 1985
Wild animals can experience injury from a variety of causes such as predation; intraspecific competition; accidents, which can cause fractures, crushing injuries, eye injuries and wing tears; self-amputation; molting, a common source of injury for arthropods; extreme weather conditions, such as storms, extreme heat or cold weather; and natural disasters.
The Quebecois cousin to Punxsutawney Phil "most likely died during hibernation," according to a Groundhog Day event organizer. Canadian Groundhog Fred La Marmotte Dies Before Making Winter ...
Some crepuscular animals may also be active by moonlight or during an overcast day. Matutinal animals are active only after dawn, and vespertine only before dusk. A number of factors affect the time of day an animal is active. Predators hunt when their prey is available, and prey try to avoid the times when their principal predators are at large.
All animals remain on-site throughout the year in their various homes. Jasmine, a snow leopard, alternates between indoor and outdoor areas along with Raj, the zoo's male snow leopard at Binder ...
On Marion Island in 2007, some 250–300 adult male subantarctic fur seals died in a two-week period. It was suggested, though not proven, that this gender-biased mortality was caused by Streptococcus sanguinis, a bacterium carried by the house mouse, an alien species accidentally introduced to the island in the 1800s.
A "beloved" antelope choked to death on the plastic cap of a snack pouch over the weekend, a Tennessee zoo announced. Lief, a 7-year-old sitatunga antelope, died Saturday, Brights Zoo said on ...