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Nine-month-old baby killed by XL bully, Gwent police confirm
Family pet that attacked infant in village of Rogiet on Sunday had certificate of exemption, force says
A nine-month-old baby boy who died in a dog attack in Monmouthshire was killed by an XL bully, police say.
Emergency services were called to an address in Crossway, in the small village of Rogiet, at 6pm on Sunday after a report of an attack by a family dog.
Continue reading...Japan deploys soldiers to contain surge in bear attacks in Akita
Close encounters reported almost daily as bears intrude into residential areas and attack and sometimes kill people
Japan has deployed troops to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge in the number of bear attacks that have terrorised people in the mountainous region.
Unexpected encounters with bears are being reported almost daily in the lead up to hibernation season as the animals forage for food. The bears have been roaming near schools, train stations, supermarkets and even at a hot springs resort.
Continue reading...Britain’s red-tailed bumblebees may have an unlikely saviour in solar farms
Though intensive farming has ravaged its habitat, could sensitive planting at energy sites aid the species’ revival?
November is when bumblebees disappear for the winter. One of the most common of the UK’s 24 species is the red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius). These social insects live in burrows, breed in colonies and forage all summer.
At this time of year, the workers and male bumblebees, having mated, die off and next year’s generation of queens burrow into holes in the bottom of hedges and old walls to hibernate until the warmth of spring.
Continue reading...Country diary: The strange familiarity of moving a mile away | Nicola Chester
Inkpen, Berkshire: With autumn in full swing, I walk the local area from my new centre, seeing farmhouses and woodland from fresh angles
The season and the light have shifted significantly in the past few weeks, and so have we. The surrounding area feels like new country. Only it isn’t – we have moved a mere mile from our old home. I walk my new purlieu, the boundaries of our new patch, which overlaps the old in a Venn diagram of localism.
With my centre shifted, local farms are revealed from fresh angles. The light falls differently on Manor Farm, Pinks, Northcroft and the old moated farmhouse at Balsdons. Above the backs of grazing cows, the big hill I could see from my former bedroom window, and still can from my new one, is like seeing an old friend in a new light.
Continue reading...Mississippi: second monkey escaped from overturned truck fatally shot
One of three monkeys reported missing still remains unaccounted for after another was shot over the weekend
A second monkey has been shot and killed while a search for a third missing monkey continues a week after the animals’ escape from a truck that overturned on a Mississippi highway.
Someone shot the monkey after seeing it cross the highway on Monday evening, about a mile from the scene of the 28 October crash, Randy Johnson, the Jasper county sheriff, said. Johnson said he was contacted by a person with the transport company who recovered the monkey after a civilian shot it.
Continue reading...BBC’s Kingdom series gets viewers ‘into the action’ with TV drama techniques
New David Attenborough show’s use of drones and moving cameras creates immersive experience like Adolescence
David Attenborough’s new BBC series Kingdom has broken ground by using elements from TV dramas, such as cliffhangers and drone and moving-camera shots, to immerse viewers “into the action” like the hit Netflix drama Adolescence did.
Since the advent of streaming services, there has been an increase in natural history TV shows thanks to the worldwide appeal of the genre popularised by Attenborough and the renowned BBC Studios natural history unit (NHU).
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