The Pigeon Express
Alaska wildlife officials killed four black bears in a campground recently reserved for people in Anchorage who are homeless after the city’s largest shelter was closed. Employees from the Alaska department of fish and game on Tuesday killed a sow and her two cubs and another adult bear that was acting separately, stealing food from […]
A black bear in Sevierville, Tennessee, died after it got into an unlocked car in search of food, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency said in a news release. Sevierville is about 30 miles from Knoxville in East Tennessee, just north of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The owner of a vehicle parked at a […]
A home owner in South Lake Tahoe, California had some unknown house guests living underneath their house for months as the home’s occupant had no idea. For months the renter had heard occasional noises like that of purring beneath the floorboards. They asked neighbors if they were hearing the same noise, but everything was quiet […]
A woman in Canada bought 10 cases of apples, 50 pounds of carrots and dozens of eggs every week during the summer of 2018. Now the woman was ordered to pay $60,000 after officials said she violated the Wildlife Act in British Columbia. In July 2018, the Conservation Officer Service, a public safety agency that […]
A grizzly bear found dead in Parks Canada early September was likely killed by the “dagger-like” horns of a mountain goat. The body of the 70 kilogram bear was found by a hiker on September 4, near the Burgess Pass trail in British Columbia. After conducting a necropsy, authorities determined a mountain goat’s horns pierced […]
A California tourist has filed a claim against a Nevada apartment group, alleging he was injured after being startled by a dumpster-diving bear. The lawsuit claims the bear got inside the rubbish skip due to a faulty latch, and lunged at the man when he opened the bin. Bears are commonly seen near Lake Tahoe […]
A man victim of a grizzly bear attack for over a week in the US state of Alaska was rescued to safety by the US Coast Guard. A coast guard helicopter saw a SOS message on a shack roof and spotted a man waving his arms in the air calling for help near a remote […]
A couple spent 10 days without food as they continued clinging to trees so that they didn’t end up being a bear’s prey. Anton and Nina Bogdanov had gone for a drive to Banniye hot springs in eastern Russia. Unfortunately, their Mitsubishi Pajero got stuck in a deep puddle in the Kamchatka region. The couple […]
United States launched a manhunt to nab a grizzly bear that killed a woman in Montana after dragging her from her tent in the middle of the night. Leah Lokan, a 65-year-old nurse from California, had stopped over in the town of Ovando during a cycling trip. During the attack on Tuesday, her fellow campers […]
A brown bear was shot dead in northern Japan after tearing through a residential area on Friday and injuring four people, public broadcaster NHK said. The bear was first sighted on a road which is due to host the Olympic Marathon and Olympic Race Walking events at this summer’s Tokyo Games in the city of […]
Zookeepers shot dead two brown bears that escaped their enclosure and attacked a boar at a zoo in Bedfordshire, England. The female bears, named Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, had wandered into the neighboring wild boar enclosure Friday after a tree fell and formed a bridge for them at the Zoological Society of London’s Whipsnade […]
Republican candidates vying to replace the governor of California in an upcoming vote caused a stir by bringing a bear to his political rally. John Cox is campaigning on the theme of “beauty and the beast”, the “beauty” being current Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, known for his primped appearance in the state that is home […]