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Shark Bites in the USA

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:01:42 +0000

The USA has the most reported shark attacks in the world. What could be the reason for this? Are Americans so well nourished that they taste better? Could be, but all the references I have read say that a shark attack is most probably an “accident”. The shark had mistaken the human for his more […]

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Dangerous animals—spiders

Greg — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:01:15 +0000

In this installment of the Dangerous Animals series we look at a group that is very misunderstood, and often erroneously indicted for being dangerous—spiders. In the summary chart of dangerous animals, summarized from various sources, spiders are accused of causing 6 deaths a year, on average, in North America. This is more deaths than caused […]

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Dangerous animals–Sharks

Greg — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:44:13 +0000

We can all hear the ominous music, building slowly, frightfully, until the climax when Jaws attacks! Movies like Jaws have burnt this fearsome group of animals into our psyche, and I think the thought lurks somewhere in our minds whenever we visit the ocean that there are really big fish out there. There are somewhere […]

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Dangerous animals—bears

Greg — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:59:48 +0000

Truth is stranger than fiction. The most recent human fatality caused by a bear took place in the wilds of Ohio. Well, sort of the wilds—just outside of Cleveland. It seems that a young man, Brent Kandra, was tending to a captive bear when the bear attacked and killed him. The bear was owned by […]

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Mountain Lions

Greg — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:20:27 +0000

They go by many names: puma, mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount, and panther, and scientifically as Puma concolor. The mountain lion is presently North America’s second largest cat, with the jaguar (Panthera onca) being the largest. Mountain lions are widely distributed, from the Yukon Territory in Canada south through the western states, through Mexico and […]

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