San Diego, CA

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Columbus, OH

According to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), cross river gorillas, a subspecies of the western gorilla, are the world’s rarest gorilla species. WCS says there are only about 300 of them left in the wild, and humans very rarely see them. That’s why recent trail-cam footage of a whole troop of cross river gorillas, including several babies, is so exciting.

World’s Rarest Gorillas Spotted on Trail Cam (With Babies!)

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Paw My Pets

Imagine this: you’re at the zoo with your toddler, expecting nothing more than a day filled with animal sights and sounds. But what if your little one ends up making an unexpected friend?

Toddler and baby gorilla lock eyes then begin playing game no one can ignore

Hawaii State

Sacramento, CA

CBS News

The Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo filed for bankruptcy protection after customer visits to the family-style dining establishment declined in recent years. Buca di Beppo, which experienced "limited customer demand" during the pandemic, never fully recovered to the same level of revenue and sales after lockdown restrictions were lifted, the restaurant chain said Monday in bankruptcy court documents. The privately owned restaurant's revenue for the first five months of 2024 fell 10% to $74.8 million compared with a year earlier, court documents show. Buca di Beppo is entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy saddled with more than $10 million in debt. About $1.36...

Buca di Beppo goes bankrupt. Here are the restaurants that are closing.

Elephants trampled to death a Spanish tourist at a South African wildlife reserve after he left his vehicle and approached a herd to take photographs, police and local government authorities said Tuesday, marking at least the third such fatality on the continent in less than four months.The 43-year-old man was killed on Sunday at Pilanesberg National Park in North West province, about 110 miles from Johannesburg, police said.North West province's Parks and Tourism Board, which manages Pilanesberg, said an adult female elephant charged at the man."He was unfortunately not able to escape or evade the elephant, which was now joined...

Tourist killed by elephants after he left fiancée in car to take photos

The Independent

 Donald Trump’s teenage son, Barron, seemingly influenced the former president to pursue an interview with his “friend” and right-wing online streamer Adin Ross.In a roughly hour-long interview with Ross, that was streamed on Monday, Trump told the 23-year-old that his son was “a big fan” and told him landing an interview with Ross was ‘big’.“My son Barron says ‘hello’. He’s a great young guy but he’s a big fan of yours,” the former president said at the start of the live-streamed interview.Ross is popular with young men – particularly with the demographic Barron, 18, belongs. Ross rose to fame...

Trump says it was his son Barron who pushed him to do unhinged interview with right-wing streamer Adin Ross

South Carolina State

President Biden has approved an emergency declaration for South Carolina as Tropical Storm Debby, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane Monday, is expected to dump over 30 inches of rain on South Carolina.

Tropical Storm Debby could cause catastrophic flooding in South Carolina

Florida State

Hurricane Debby brought more than powerful winds and storm surge to Florida — packages of cocaine worth more than $1 million also made landfall, officials said, marking the latest in a string of recent discoveries of drugs along Florida shores.Debby, which slammed into the state as a Category 1 hurricane but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, washed the drugs ashore in the Florida Keys, U.S. Border Patrol acting chief patrol Agent Samuel Briggs II wrote on social media."Hurricane Debby blew 25 packages of cocaine (70 lbs.) onto a beach in the Florida Keys," Briggs wrote, posting two...

Hurricane Debby blows cocaine worth $1 million onto Florida beach

Palm Beach County, FL

Belle Glade, FL

Nine people died and one person was seriously injured when an overloaded SUV went out of control on a South Florida road, hit a guardrail and went upside down into a canal, authorities said.The 2023 Ford Explorer carrying 10 people was traveling south on Hatton Highway near the farming community of Belle Glade at about 7:30 p.m. Monday when it came to a part of the two-lane road that briefly jogs west before again heading south, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.The female driver failed to negotiate the turn and went off the road. The SUV hit a guardrail...

9 killed, 1 survives when SUV flips into canal in Florida

Now a tropical storm that could cause catastrophic flooding in Georgia and South Carolina, Debby made landfall Monday as a Category 1 hurricane in Florida. The storm system is responsible for at least five deaths.

Debby turns deadly after making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane

New York Post

A 54-year-old caretaker at a zoo in India died Sunday after being brutally mauled by an angry hippo at the animal park, according to reports.

Santosh Kumar Mahto was attacked by the animal at Ranchi’s Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park after he went into the hippopotamus compound to remove a newborn calf for feeding, The Indian Express reported.

The protective mother hippo attacked Mahto, critically injuring him.

“Unfortunately, the caretaker succumbed to his injuries on Sunday at a private hospital here,” zoo director Jabbar Singh told the outlet. “The zoo authority took care of the hospital cost.

75-year-old grandfather killed by swarm of bees while...

Zookeeper viciously mauled to death by raging mother hippo when he tries to feed calf: reports

New Haven, CT

Herbie J Pilato

He was born on April 2, 1949, in New Haven, Connecticut, and died of a heart attack at only 63 on August 14, 2012, in Palm Beach Gardens. His birth name was Ronald Gabriel Paolillo, but his stage name was Ron Palillo who was best known as Arnold Dingfelder Horshack on TV's hit 1970s sitcom, Welcome Back, Kotter.

The Tragic Death of 'Welcome Back, Kotter' Actor Ron Palillo: A Look Back

Peru's reclusive Mashco Piro ethnic group recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on their territory in the Amazon, according to a regional Indigenous organization.FENAMAD, representing 39 Indigenous communities in the Cusco and Madre de Dios regions, said Monday that it believes illegal logging was taking place on Mashco Piro territory and that one logger was injured in the July 27 attack.A few weeks ago, photos emerged of the uncontacted tribe searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon, which some experts say was evidence logging concessions are "dangerously close" to its territory. Survival...

Reclusive tribe attacks loggers with bows and arrows in Peru's Amazon

Columbus, TX

InspireMore

A gorilla at the Columbus Zoo has […]
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Gorilla Meets Newborn Baby And Their Reaction Is Priceless

New York City, NY

The decade-old question about how a dead six-month-old female black bear cub ended up in New York City's iconic Central Park beneath an old bicycle has been answered. Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. on Sunday confessed that he was behind the incident after a fact-checker from The New Yorker called him to verify the story.In a video he posted on X, Kennedy said he had come across the bear in the morning when he was going falconing; a woman in a van in front of him hit and killed the bear. "So, I pulled over and I picked up the...

RFK Jr. admits putting dead bear cub in Central Park 10 years ago

Texas State

Troy, TX

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended search efforts for four people who were missing after the boat they were on capsized Saturday near Homer in south-central Alaska.The missing were identified by a relative as a family of four from Troy, Texas - Mary and David Maynard, and sons Colton, 11, and Brantley, 7, the Anchorage Daily News reported Monday. Christi Wells, who provided a statement on behalf of Mary Maynard's parents, said the family enjoyed spending time with friends and relatives, and traveling.Wells said Mary Maynard, 37, was a traveling nurse and David Maynard, 42, stayed at home with the...

Texas family of 4 missing after boat capsizes in Alaska

Dramatic details emerged Tuesday after police said human remains were found inside a large crocodile suspected of killing a tourist in Australia's second fatal attack in about a month.The latest victim was 40-year-old doctor Dave Hogbin, who fell from a steep bank Saturday into the Annan River south of Cooktown in Queensland state, his family said in a statement. The general practice doctor from Newcastle in New South Wales had been traveling on a camping vacation through Queensland with his wife Jane Hogbin and their three sons aged 2, 5 and 7 years. Cooktown is more than 1,500 miles from...

Tourist eaten by crocodile saved wife's life before he died, she says

A leopard attacked two men at a South African air force base that borders the world-famous Kruger National Park. One of the men, a uniformed air force member, was attacked while out for a run. The other, a civilian working at the base, encountered the leopard while on a walk, an air force spokesman said.

Leopard attacks men at South Africa air force base

Coronado, CA

National City, CA

Lemon Grove, CA

Chula Vista, CA

Bonita, CA

La Mesa, CA

Spring Valley, CA

Imperial Beach, CA

Giant pandas will make their public debut this week at the San Diego Zoo. It's a big momentum shift for panda diplomacy after concerns that China would not continue the partnership. They're the first new set of giant pandas in 21 years.

Giant pandas to make public debut at San Diego Zoo

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