November 20, 2014 - CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- Autonomous “Robocop”-style robots, equipped with microphones,
speakers, cameras, laser scanners and sensors, have started to guard
Silicon Valley.
The security robots, called Knightscope K5
Autonomous Data Machines, were designed by a robotics company,
Knightscope, located in Mountain View, California.
The robots are
programmed to notice unusual behavior and alert controllers. It also has
odor and heat detectors, and can monitor pollution in carpets as well.
Last but not least: with cameras, the Robocops can remember up to 300
number plates a minute, monitoring traffic.
Photo from knightscope.com
It works like this:
someone steps in front of a robot, which stops and moves around the
person while sending video to a control center. If a burglar doesn’t
leave, then “the robot is looking at the video, listening for glass
breakage, any loud sound that breaking in would cause. We'll get the
license plate, picture of the vehicle, geotag location, and time,” says project co-founder Stacy Stephens.
The
robotics company says that it will be placing the robots in patrol
malls, offices, and local neighborhoods, as well as outdoor spaces like
corporate campuses, college campuses and open air malls. Knightscope
said that future growth opportunities include areas in schools, hotels,
auto dealerships, stadiums, casinos, law enforcement agencies, seaports
and airports.
WATCH: Robots Patrol Microsoft at TechInMotion.
The estimated crime reduction in the area would be by 50 percent with robots involved, the company claims.
Reportedly
five K5 robots have been deployed to patrol in the San Francisco Bay
Area. Including the Knightscope’s headquarters the robots are also
guarding an “undisclosed” location in Silicon Valley, KPIX-TV reported.
The
robot is 1.5 meters (5 feet) high and weighs about 136 kilograms (300
pounds), representing a combo of laser scanning, wheel encoders,
inertial measurements, and GPS.
It’s also built with a button on its head for human enquiries. “Imagine
a friend that can see, hear, feel and smell that would tirelessly watch
over your corporate campus or neighborhood, keep your loved ones safe
and put a smile on everyone passing by,” the company says on its website. ”Imagine if we could utilize technology to make our communities stronger and safer…..together,” the firm added.
The
robots are autonomous and have been developed to function with any
interference from the people, and to avoid confrontations.
WATCH: Beta Prototype Demonstration.
The robotics company also responded to fears that no human power will be needed in security. “I
believe robots are the perfect tools to handle the monotonous and
sometimes dangerous work in order to free up humans to more judiciously
address activities requiring higher-level thinking, hands-on encounters
or tactical planning,” the statement in the Knightscope blog read.
So
far, people have been treating the robot very nicely, seemingly not
quite understanding its functions, Stacy Stephens told CBS. “The
vast majority of people see it and go, ‘Oh my God, that’s so cute.’
We’ve had people go up and hug it, and embrace it for whatever reason,” she said.
If someone decides to attack the robot, though, the result would be first “a loud chirp,” and then louder and louder sounds. “A very, very loud alarm. Think of a car alarm but much more intense,” said Stephens. - RT.
November 20, 2014 - NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- A traveler from Mali was being tested for Ebola infection on Thursday
at Bellevue Hospital, with results expected later in the day, health
officials in New York City said.
Due to the patient's symptoms and travel history, the person has been placed in isolation, the officials said in a statement.
The officials gave few details about the person.
"An
individual who came to the United States from Mali, a country with
limited Ebola transmission, was taken to HHC Bellevue Hospital Center
today," the statement said.
Mali shares a border with Guinea, one of three West African nations hardest hit by the virus.
The
worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed at least 5,420 people out
of at least 15,145 cases reported since March, mostly in Guinea, Liberia
and Sierra Leone.
Six people in Mali have died so far from Ebola, according to the World Health Organization.
The
city health department has designated Bellevue, the country's oldest
public hospital, as the facility where any suspected Ebola patients in
New York would be transferred.
Last
week, the hospital discharged a New York doctor cured of Ebola, which
he contracted treating patients in Guinea while working with the
humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders. - Yahoo.
November 20, 2014 - URALS, RUSSIA - A sinkhole 20 by 30 meters (65 by 98 feet) in size has been found
near a Uralkali mine in Russia's Perm region. While the company says the
development is of no further threat, locals fear the whole nearby town
could go underground.
The sinkhole was first discovered by
Uralkali's Solikamsk-2 mine workers on November 18. According to local
emergency services, it's located some two miles from the mine itself, in
an old abandoned mine.
Old, out-of-use garden patches were
affected by the accident, and there is no danger to locals, as the
sinkhole is in no close proximity to any residential buildings, the
company said.
There are no "catastrophic" effects of the
sinkhole neither for the company, nor for the locals, Uralkali CEO
Dmitry Osipov said, adding that the incident has been localised.
Before
the giant hole appeared near the town of Solikamsk, the company, which
is Russia's biggest potash miner, evacuated workers at the Solikamsk-2
mine, due to the inflow of saline water. Operations at the site have
been halted, and the level of underground water is being monitored.
Locals
fear that the hole could get bigger and swallow their houses, which are
some 2 miles from the sinkhole now. Regional authorities say the
sinkhole could get bigger, but would still be of no danger to people.
"The sinkhole will get slightly bigger... up to 50 by 60 meters [164 by 197 feet] - maximum,"
Perm Governor Gennady Tushnolobov told journalists, regional media
v-kurse.ru reported. He added that the exact size of the expansion will
be determined in a couple of days.
The flooded mine, Solikamsk-2,
is connected to another mine, Solikamsk-1, which is causing concerns
among people in the region. The underground tunnels linking the two were
walled up decades ago, but water would only need time to break through,
people fear.
Image courtesy: Uralkali press service
The town of Solikamsk is located "almost entirely"
above the Solikamsk-1 mine, according to the town's mayor, Sergey
Devyatkov, v-kurse.ru reported. If the mine is flooded - which could
happen in theory, but not in the immediate future - the whole town would
have to be evacuated, according to the source.
"There is no need to talk about the first mine now. All is good there,"
the mayor said in an interview with Russia's KP daily, adding that the
situation is monitored around the clock, and there is plenty of time for
observation.
"Various possible impacts of the
brine on connections [between the two mines] are being studied now, not
to let the flooding of the first mine happen. I think the final decision
will be made in two weeks, but even if no action on fortification of
walled-up tunnels is taken, scientists predict they could stay strong
for another five to 15 years," Tushnolobov said, RBC.ru reported.
Crater formed close to the Berezniki railway station, after an earth
sink on rails adjacent to the Berezniki mine-building facilities and the
First Uralkali Mine Administration in 2010. (RIA Novosti/Viktor
Brandman)
Uralkali
said that Solikamsk-1 and Solikamsk-2 mines border each other, and
together with leading geologists the company is monitoring all processes
in both of the mines, which produce potash chloride, to be used
primarily as crop nutrient.
The
company's facilities in the area have previously been affected by
similar incidents. Uralkali's oldest mine was shut down in 2006 due to
water inflow, which also caused a sinkhole to form in the town of
Berezniki, which is the second largest town in Perm region.
Another
sinkhole appeared in Berezniki in 2011, when a round hole as wide as
137 meters (450 feet) formed less than a mile away from a residential
area. - RT.
November 20, 2014 - UNITED STATES - Ebola continues to spread wildly in Sierra Leone as experts project that virtually
all major cities in the United States will face imported cases of Ebola
amid the failed response of the CDC. The nightly news says the story on
the disease is ‘closed,’ but medical doctors around the country happen
to disagree — and overwhelmingly so. In fact, medical professionals are
now speaking out privately and publicly about the ‘cover up’ of
potential Ebola cases that they say may end up with their careers on the line.
It
was back in October when I shared a story regarding some extremely
powerful information that one of my medical doctors contacts stationed
in Dallas had shared with me. The CDC, this individual said, was coming
into hospitals and visiting patients who were reported to have ‘signs of
malaria’. What’s much more disturbing, however, is that the CDC was
reportedly ‘disappearing’ these patients — even going as far as to
remove their actual records from the hospital database.
Surely a
serious claim, and one that I had shared with the audience hoping that
we could simply find an alternative answer to these disappearances. At
least one that did not revolve around the cover up of a serious Ebola
outbreak within our borders. It was hard to ignore, though, with even
former Border Patrol agents speaking out over sightings of the CDC coming in and ‘snatching up’ individuals with flu-like symptoms.
What happened next, however, solidified the message of my Dallas contact in a very real way.
It
was then, after sharing this story on air, that the brave Dr. James
Lawrenzi called into the program and said that he had also witnessed
similar circumstances: even going as far as to mention other key
elements that I had not yet mentioned on air while conveying my report.
In his experience and statement, Dr. Lawrenzi discussed how medical
professionals from the CDC were in fact looking at these cases of
‘malaria’ in a very strange way. Especially when these ‘malaria’ cases
exhibited symptoms that typically coincide with an Ebola infection.
Lawrenzi
independently verified additional claims by doctors who we have
personally spoken to regarding the state of unpreparedness within these
institutions to handle even a single case of Ebola, the rapidly
declining moral of medical staff who continually threaten to quit their
jobs in the event of an Ebola patient being taken under care of the
hospital, and the complete lack of concern from the CDC when it comes to
medical doctors relaying these concerns to the agency.
WATCH: The video of Dr. Lawrenzi’s statements for yourself below.
But
Dr. Lawrenzi’s statements, nor the statements of other medical doctors
who have reached out conveying the same message and agreeing with my
overall assessment, are not the focal point of this latest news. In the
latest development on the Ebola case, doctors are now ‘freaking out’
over how families, lawyers, and eventually the public are going to
respond to the ‘disappeared cases.’
Doctors ‘Freaking Out’ Over ‘Continued Ebola Cover Up’
The
latest news from the medical doctors who have been in the thick of what
they say are the disappearance of potential Ebola cases is that these
medical professionals believe that they may in fact be the ones taking
the heat for the CDC’s alleged actions. Specifically, we’re talking
about what happens when families and investigative journalists really
start looking into this in a big way.
Just speaking with one of
the lead doctors in the Dallas area, they were concerned about
‘relatives going around talking about how their family members had died
of Ebola’ — something that has reportedly already been ‘causing
problems.’ The mainstream media, of course, can be trusted to stay
completely silent about this entire timeline. Let’s not forget the quote
which was published (and later retracted) on Forbes by an adjunct professor at Duke University Medical Center:
“The
Associated Press and other press outlets have agreed not to report on
suspected cases of Ebola in the United States until a positive viral RNA
test is completed.”
And remember, it’s not hard to
believe that the federal government would quell public fear over the
Ebola outbreak in the United States by silently quarantining and
disappearing potential patients. It’s, in fact, extremely easy to grasp.
The government would love nothing more than to buy enough time to
prepare adequate pandemic response (such as the acquisition of 250,000 hazmat suits sent directly to Dallas).
The
reality is that doctors, other medical experts, and even former senior
level Border Patrol agents have spoken out over the apparent cover up of
potential Ebola victims within the US — with some sharing their story
with millions. Many will not speak publicly about what they have seen
for fear of repercussion from not only their partners and employers, but
from the public and the federal government. These reports are serious,
and they have serious and troubling meaning for this nation if they are,
in fact, centered around an Ebola cover up campaign aimed at halting
the spread of fear throughout the general public.
WATCH: Infowars reporter Paul Joseph Watson speaks with former Border Patrol Agent Zach Taylor as he breaks down how the CDC is working with Border Patrol authorities and the Department of Homeland Security to disappear potential Ebola victims attempting to cross the border into the United States.
U.S. Homeland Security Grants Deportation Protection to People From Ebola Nations
A U.S. Coast Guard Corpsman working with the Office of Field Operations checks the temperature of a traveler who has recently traveled to either Guinea,
Sierra Leone, or Liberia in this handout picture from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection taken at Washington Dulles International Airport
October 16, 2014. Credit: Reuters/U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Josh Denmark/Handout via Reuters
The
Department of Homeland Security will grant temporary protected status
to people from the three West African countries most affected by Ebola
who are currently residing in the United States, department officials
said on Thursday.
People from Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone in
the United States as of Thursday may apply for protection from
deportation, as well as for work permits, for 18 months, said a
Department of Homeland Security official.
After 18 months, the
Secretary of Homeland Security will assess whether the protection should
be extended, based on the level of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
The
move is a response to the Ebola epidemic, which has claimed more than
5,000 lives, mostly in the three West African countries.
In order
to prevent a mass migration from West Africa to the United States,
nationals from these countries who arrive after Thursday will not be
eligible for protected status.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials estimate that 8,000 people will be eligible to apply.
"The
Ebola response in the United States has been front and center in the
United States government at high levels," said a Department of Homeland
Security official. "This designation has been part of that constant
monitoring, reevaluation and reassessment of the appropriate response."
The
United States reserves temporary protected status for people from
countries experiencing conditions deemed too dangerous to return to,
such as Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
Unlike other recipients,
protected people from West Africa will not be allowed to travel home and
then return to the United States, in order to prevent the disease from
spreading.
Nationals from the three countries must undergo a
background check in order to receive protected status. Those with a
criminal history will not be approved, said the Homeland Security
official. - Reuters.
November 20, 2014 - OKLAHOMA, UNITED STATES - A spectacular meteorite/fireball lit up the Oklahoma morning skies yesterday, Nov. 19th 2014.
The large and bright fireball is seen streaking relatively slowly across the sky before flaring and leaving a smoke trail.
There has been a stark rise in fireball sightings and impacts across the world over the last seven years, with sightings and reports of 'boom's associated with meteorite explosions in the atmosphere occurring almost daily.
Notable recent events include an apparent enormous overhead meteor explosion in the sky over the Urals, Russia, two days ago, and a similar event in Ukraine yesterday. - SOTT.
November 20, 2014 - BUFFALO, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES -
People who live in the northern states are used to being hit with
snowstorms in winter. However, it's not often that a town gets more snow
in one day than some cities receive in an entire year.
Not
every snow picture exposed the beautiful or clever side of the
blizzard. This home's front door could not withstand the pressure of the
blowing snow:
This
is the face of rapid global cooling, which will change life on our
planet more quickly than anyone is yet prepared to acknowledge. All 50 states will see freezing temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday with millions of Americans facing another bitter blast of unseasonably cold air.
A ferocious storm
dumped massive piles of snow on parts of upstate New York, trapping
residents in their homes and stranding motorists on roadways, as
temperatures in all 50 states fell to freezing or below. Even hardened
Buffalo residents were caught off-guard Tuesday as more than 4 feet fell
in parts of the city.Authorities said snow totals by
Wednesday afternoon could top 6 feet in the hardest-hit areas south of
Buffalo, with another storm expected Thursday. The snow has gotten so
bad in Western New York that Gov. Cuomo has called out the troops.
Bone-chilling nights will be followed by frosty cold days with highs
struggling to reach the 20-degree mark over the regions on Monday and
Tuesday. Some locations in the Central states are forecast to stay below 20 F until Wednesday afternoon.
This is what happened to home electricity bills last year.
Economic contraction was in evidence as well. The cruel
monetary-policy-nullifying devil of Polar Vortex 2.0 has arrived in all
50 states (yes even Hawaii) will see temperatures drop below freezing.
Global
warming is gasping in death throes but that does not stop its staunch
believers from trying to warm people with words. Does not work! The
headlines still ring, "GLOBAL warming could be making parts of the world colder." You did not know it but "Global warming is worsening.
It seems that new reports appear with increasing frequency emphasizing
the worsening of global warming due to increased accumulation of
man-made greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere."
Climate
activists claim the "science is settled" and that "global warming is
real" yet their predictions have proven blatantly false. Global warmers
still have a fantasy about artic ice melting but we are now seeing record-breaking ice formation at both poles.
Bottom line is that we now have the most snow cover on record for this
date across the United States. A little over 50% of the country is now
covered in snow. Global warmers obviously will never stop believing in
fairy tales.
The dream of global warming dies hard in some people. In Australia
they are saying, "The bottom line here is that a few cold outbreaks in
the USA, no matter how severe, don't mean the world isn't warming. The
world definitely is warming, according to just about every reputable
science body, including our own Bureau of Meteorology, which says
Australia's climate has warmed by 0.9°C since 1910, with more extreme
heat and fewer cool extremes." The reputable science referred to above does not exist. It is fictional man made up stuff,
a grand illusion deliberately hatched by a select few men and woman who
had nothing better to do than play with computer models that are
proving to have nothing to do with reality.
The Arctic ice extent is now at its highest for this date in 10 years according to the Danish Meteorological Institute. That black line shows quite clearly that global warming has been turned upside down at the North Pole.
What we are seeing are temperatures as much as 30-50 degrees below
normal across the Rockies and Plains this week, from Wyoming and
Colorado all the way south into Texas. "This is exceptional cold," AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity said. "It's the coldest air we've seen in decades during November."
What is happening outside is that temperature records are falling left
and right across the northern hemisphere. Temperatures at the Boise
Airport bottomed out at 6 degrees Monday morning, breaking a 134-year-old record
of 7 degrees set on Nov. 17, 1880. Record lows from Idaho to Nebraska
and Iowa south to Texas and east through the Great Lakes. The eastern
2/3 of the US will shatter decades long and in some cases, century-long records.
The cold will reach down into areas that rarely see this kind of cold
even in the dead of winter. What we are seeing in the United States is
sub-freezing temperatures all the way down to the 30°N range. That is
the same latitude as northern Africa.
November 20, 2014 - NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - The dust has barely settled on the latest high profile banker suicide
in which Deutsche Bank's associate general counsel, and former SEC
regulator, Charlie Gambino was found dead, having hung himself by the
neck from a stairway banister, and here comes the latest sad entrant in
the dead banker chronicles of 2014 when earlier today, the Post reports,
a Citigroup banker was found dead with his throat slashed in the
bathtub "of his swanky downtown apartment, authorities said Wednesday."
More:
Shawn
D. Miller, Citigroup’s managing director of environmental and social
risk management, was discovered around 3 p.m. Tuesday by a doorman in
the Greenwich Street building, law enforcement sources said. “We are
deeply saddened by this news and our thoughts are with Shawn’s family at
this time,” said a statement sent out by Citigroup.
Bloomberg
adds that "a 42-year-old man was found unconscious yesterday in the
bathtub of his Greenwich Street apartment in lower Manhattan with a neck
laceration and later pronounced dead, the New York Police Department
said in a statement."
Medics
declared him dead after responding to an emergency call about 3:11 p.m.
and an investigation to determine the cause of death is continuing,
police said. Miller
advised executives and clients on sustainability matters, including
environmental and social policies related to industries including mining
and renewable energy, according to his LinkedIn profile. He helped
oversee the development and implementation of policies in more than 100
countries. “We
are deeply saddened by this news and our thoughts are with Shawn’s
family at this time,” Danielle Romero-Apsilos, a spokeswoman for the New
York-based bank, told Bloomberg an e-mailed statement.
However, unlike previous more "clearcut" suicides, this time there may have been foul play: the Post adds that "there
was no knife recovered at the scene, leading officials to suspect the
death was not a suicide, and they were trying to determine who had
access to his apartment."
Miller did well: "one-bedroom apartments at the building are listed at more than $1 million."
An
online profile under the man’s name calls him a “pioneer in sustainable
finance” and a specialist in emerging markets at the International
Finance Corp., part of the World Bank. Several former colleagues told
The Post that Miller was well-liked.
It was unclear why the doorman checked his apartment. Miller's LinkedIn profile is shown below:
November 20, 2014 - EARTH-
The following constitutes the latest reports of unusual and symbolic
animal behavior, mass die-offs, beaching and stranding of mammals, and
the appearance of rare creatures.
Virus devastating sea stars along Pacific Coast identified
Scientists
have now explained the mysteriously sudden appearance of a disease that
has decimated sea stars on the North American Pacific Coast.
Museum biological collections are the records of life on Earth and as
such, they are frequently used to investigate serious environmental
issues. When public health officials were concerned about the levels of
mercury in fish and birds, for example, scientists studied museum
specimens to assess historical changes in mercury contamination. Eggs in
museum collections were analyzed to establish the connection between
DDT, thinning eggshells, and the decline in bird populations. And now,
specimens from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM)
have helped explain the mysteriously sudden appearance of a disease that
has decimated sea stars on the North American Pacific Coast.
In a paper published Monday, November 17, 2014 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Cornell University microbiologist Ian Hewson and colleagues identify
the Sea Star Associated Densovirus (SSaDV) virus as the microbe
responsible for Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD). NHM Curator of
Echinoderms Gordon Hendler and Collections Manager Cathy Groves, along
with scientists from universities and aquariums along the coast
(including NHM neighbor, the California Science Center), collaborated in
the study.
Since
June 2013, the largest die-off of sea stars ever recorded has swept the
Pacific Coast. At least 20 different species of sea stars have been
affected -- including iconic species like the "ochre star" and the
multi-armed "sunflower star" -- and many populations of sea stars from
Southern Alaska to Baja California have already disappeared.
Their large-scale disappearance is anticipated to have a serious and
long-lasting ecological impact on coastal habitats, because sea stars
are voracious predators, with a key role in regulating the ecology of
the ocean floor.
Museum samples prove that the virus has
existed at a low level for at least the past 72 years -- it was detected
in preserved sea stars collected in 1942, 1980, 1987, and 1991. The
study suggests the disease may have recently risen to epidemic levels
because of sea star overpopulation, environmental changes,or mutation of the virus.
The study detected the virus on particles suspended in seawater, as
well as in sediment, and showed that it is harbored in animals related
to sea stars, such as sea urchins and brittle stars. Likely it can be
transported by ocean currents, accounting for its rapid, widespread
dispersal in the wild. Since the die-off began, the disease has caused a
mass mortality of captive sea stars in aquariums on the Pacific Coast, although it did not spread in aquariums that sterilize inflowing seawater with UV light.
"There are 10 million viruses in a drop of seawater, so discovering the
virus associated with a marine disease can be like looking for a needle
in a haystack," Hewson said. In fact, the densovirus is the first and
only virus identified in sea stars. However, its discovery will enable
scientists to study how the virus infects sea stars and trace it in the
ocean. Further research could reveal how the virus invades its host, why
kills some sea stars, and why other species are unaffected.
Research might also identify factors that triggered the ongoing plague
and help to predict or forestall similar events in the future.
"A recent publication highlighted examples of innovative studies for
which museum time-series were integral in identifying responses to
environmental change and bemoaned general decline in the growth of
museum collections," said NHM's Hendler. "Fortunately, we bucked the
trend and intentionally collected common, local species of sea stars,
which made it possible to detect SSaDV in specimens from NHM!" - Science Daily.
The keeper was tramped by the beast as he tended to a rhino and her calf early this morning.
It's not clear what caused the animal to attack.
The man, who is in his 50s, suffered chest, abdomen and pelvis injuries after the animal attacked inside its enclosure.
He was helped out of the water by zoo staff, and was taken by ambulance
to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge in a serious but stable
condition.
He was given pain relief at the scene for his injuries
A Whipsnade Zoo spokeswoman said: 'At approximately 8.15am today one of our keepers was injured at Whipsnade Zoo.
'Emergency services were immediately called and the keeper involved was
treated by paramedics at the scene and has now been taken to hospital.'
Dave Tamarro, of the East of England Ambulance Service NHS
Trust, said: 'When we arrived it was clear that the patient had received
a number of injuries, including injuries to the chest, abdomen and
pelvis.
A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said: 'We were called
to Whipsnade Zoo at around 8.25am. Our role was to assist the other
emergency services.' - Metro.
Hippopotamus kills 13 people, including 12 children in Niger
Twelve
children and a villager have been killed in a hippopotamus attack on a
boat near the Niger capital Niamey earlier this week, officials say.
Twelve children and a villager have been killed in a hippopotamus
attack on a boat near Niger's capital Niamey earlier this week,
officials say.
The students, aged 12 to 13, died when their
boat transporting them across the Niger River was flipped by the
hippopotamus on Monday.
A number of students in the West African nation take such boats to attend school on the other side of the river.
"Ultimately it was 12 students, including seven girls and five boys,
who died after the attack," minister of secondary education Aichatou
Oumani said.
A villager on the same boat was also killed, according to an official in Libore, the village near the site of the accident.
An earlier toll had spoken of two deaths, 11 missing and five
survivors. At least 18 people were aboard the boat, mostly students.
"We have already given the order for the animal to be identified and
killed," governor of the Tillaberi region Hassoumi Djabirou said.
Game wardens shot dead a hippopotamus last year after it killed a teenager in Niamey.
Hippopotamus with young in tow are the most aggressive, even attacking
cattle that come to graze on the banks of the Niger River, experts said.
- Australia Plus.
Wild boar viciously attacks woman walking with dogs in Gordon Valley, California
A wild boar allegedly gored a woman several times as she was walking with her dogs.
The woman is still being treated for her injuries. She was walking her
two dogs in the Gordon Valley area last week, when the boar attacked for
apparently no reason.
"It come from behind and just knocked her down.And she kinda yelled and screamed,"Linda Bushey, who is neighbors with the woman, said.
After the initial attack, the woman thought the wild animal was leaving and tried to stand up. But the boar came back at her.
WATCH: Vicious wild boar attacks woman walking with dogs.
Its razor sharp tusks cut the woman three times, injuring her legs and arm. She grabbed her two dogs.
"Held on to them and stayed hunkered down real quiet and he finally left," rancher Tim Wellman said.
She reported the attack to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, who are still investigating the incident. Lt. Patrick Foy with the department says this could be the first unprovoked attack of a wild boar in California's history.
Earlier this week, a team of three, including Wellman, hunted down the boar.
"Reached over the pig, and I got rid of Grover out of the way, and I
just shot straight down through the neck with a pistol," Wellman said.
He said the boar was unmistakable, with a distinguishing trait.
"He left one big foot track, because it was three-legged, that foot had grown huge," Wellman added.
They believe they have eliminated the threat of a future attack.
