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 by AFP Staff Writers Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 29, 2022
An elephant fatally gored its handler in a nature reserve on the Malaysian side of the island of Borneo, on Christmas Day, park officials said Thursday. The handler was tending to an injured elephant calf when another captured elephant suddenly gored him "very severely" in the chest, Augustine Tuuga, the director of the park in Sabah state, told AFP. He added that Fred Lanson, 49, "died on the spot." The accident occurred on December 25 in the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park in the northeast of the island of Borneo. "This is really an unfortunate incident," Sabah's minister of tourism, culture and environment, Jafry Ariffin, told AFP, adding there would be an investigation. The park is a sanctuary for 16 Bornean elephants, an endangered species, with only six handlers caring for them. In December 2011, a wild elephant killed an Australian tourist in the Tabin Wildlife Reserve in eastern Sabah. Bornean elephants, a native species of the island, are a subspecies of Asian elephants.
Holy icy chill, Batman! Freezing bats saved in Texas Houston (AFP) Dec 29, 2022 It was a rescue worthy of Batman. A wave of frigid air triggered "hypothermic shock" in a colony of bats clinging to their roost beneath a bridge in Houston, a sprawling city in Texas. Nearly frozen, the bats began losing their grip and falling to the pavement from nine meters (30 feet) up, the Houston Humane Society reported on its Facebook page. The Mexican free-tailed bats "are tiny, and have minimal body fat, so they are not able to live long when laying exposed on the ground in freezing ... read more
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