In this 2018 photo received by AFP on November 22, 2021, a bat is seeing flying in a cave north of Tel Aviv, Israel.
A new study published in Current Biology on November 24, 2021 by Israeli researchers sheds light on how mammal parents help their young learn critical life skills — in this case Egyptian fruit bats, as they soar through the night evading predators and finding figs.
“How animals, humans included, acquire their behavioral skills is a fundamental question,” Yossi Yovel, a scientist at the University of Tel Aviv and one the paper’s three authors told AFP. “We know that animals do amazing things.
“It was terrifying,” Addington told USA Today of the incident.
Commenters were furious at the close encounter, with one saying: “Then the bear pays the consequences of a human’s stupid and thoughtless decision.”
Another wrote: “I am so glad you are finally pressing charges. I see this too often and people simply do not understand the consequences of their actions. An Instagram photo is simply not worth it.”
A third wrote: “And of course if she would have been hurt or killed it would have been the bear’s fault and they would put the beardown!!! Stupid stupid people!!!! All for a picture, if you want an up-close picture buy a camera that has a lens that gets you up close and personal!”
It was a tip-off in response to the post that ultimately led to investigators charging Samantha Dehring.
The Illinois woman is facing charges of feeding, touching, teasing, frightening or intentionally disturbing wildlife and violating closures and use limits
There is an average of one bear attack at Yellowstone each year, and in 2011 and 2015 three people were killed by bears in separate incidents, leading the park to introduce distancing rules for visitor safety.
A Russian fisherman has shared disturbing images of some creepiest creatures coming from Norway and the Barents Sea and off the Atlantic coast. According to the details, Rfedortsov lives in Murmansk, Russia, works on the (trawler) ship and regularly catches strange and amazing marine creatures. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1IOXyeAThG/?utm_source=ig_embed For years, the Russian fisherman has been sharing … Read more
