– – A lone hiker was mauled to death by a grizzly bear on Friday in Alaska’s Denali National Park. It was the first fatality from a bear attack in the park’s nearly 100 year history.
Forty-nine-year-old Richard White of San Diego had been photographing the bear from a distance of about 50-yards away for about eight minutes when he was killed; a grizzly running at full speed could cover that distance in a matter of seconds, according to the Park’s superintendent. The regulation distance between a hiker and a bear is a quarter mile.
Other hikers found the victim’s backpack and bloodied clothing, and alerted park rangers. A wildlife trooper shot and killed the bear on Sunday, and rangers recovered Mr. White’s remains. A portion of the Park was closed following the attack…
– – Talk about having a terrible, no good, really bad day! Wallace Weatherholt, a 63-year-old airboat captain in the Florida Everglades, was giving a tour of the area on June 12th to an Indiana family and hanging fish over the side of his boat when a nine-foot alligator sank its teeth into his wrist, severing his hand.
– – In yet another shark attack, fifty-year-old Christopher Myers was attacked Monday by what was believed to have been a great white shark while he and his son were swimming about 400 yards offshore at Ballston Beach in Truro, Massachusetts. He suffered four puncture wounds on each lower leg, and had surgery to repair torn tendons. Treated at a Boston hospital, Myers will be returning home with a cast on one leg and bandages on the other.
– – A Texas graduate student researcher suffered multiple and severe bite wounds when attacked by chimpanzees at the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden in South Africa. 
– – We all know that some parents can be quite cheap, so when his kids asked him for a puppy, one big-spending father depicted finding that puppies can be really expensive got them a possum instead! We see this guy in a Geico commercial working over his barbecue while his son and daughter stand over their “pet” possum, which is lying motionless at their feet; the son appears to prod the possum with his foot. “Dad, I think he’s dead,” advises the daughter. “Probably just playin’ possum,” reassures the father.
– – Pity the poor lovelorn Scottish pandas, Sunshine (Yang Guang) and Sweetie (Tian Tian)! Like panda couples of the past, they have failed to mate, and now the panda breeding season for 2012 has come to an end!
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