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Marianne Mancuso fishes on the Ogden River below Harrison Boulevard in Ogden on Friday. (KERA WILLIAMS/ Standard-Examiner)

Ogden River improvements benefit area anglers, hungry mink

Last updated Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 2:54pm

OGDEN — One of the byproducts of Ogden’s efforts to make the Ogden River Parkway more welcoming may be that it has made the area more welcoming for mink.

Not mink to make coats out of. These are common, American, fish-stealing mink. They are mink so aggressive, or hungry, they’re willing to play tug-of-war for a 13-inch brown trout.

Marianne Mancuso played that game with a mink and lost. It was the fish or her tackle, she said, and the mink, all 15 inches of it — not counting the tail — won.

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Charla Nash, of Stamford, Connecticut, pictured March 21, 2012, was so severely mauled by Sandra Herold's 200-pound pet chimpanzee Travis, that she lost her hands and face. Nash received a face transplant in 2010 and is now filing a claim that would allow her to sue the state of Connecticut for allowing a dangerous animal to reside in Herold's home. Nash has not been home since the attack and resides in a Boston-area rehab center. (Mark Mirko/Hartford Courant/MCT)

Chimp attack victim hopes for a better future

Jon Lender The Hartford Courant

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 10:03am

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Charla Nash says she still can't remember the brutal attack by a chimpanzee that tore off her face and hands and blinded her on Feb. 16, 2009 -- but she recalls the moment she finally heard a recording of the horrifying 911 call from that day.

People around the world have heard the chimp's owner, Sandra Herold, pleading on that recording with a dispatcher to "send the police up with a gun" to shoot her rampaging, 200-pound pet, Travis, but when Nash heard it on the news, what caught her ear wasn't Herold's frantic voice.

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In this March 1, 2012 file photo, Kliwon, a 30-year-old male African giraffe receives treatment from keepers at the Surabaya Zoo in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Kliwon, the only giraffe in the zoo, later died with a huge wad of plastic food wrappers found in its belly. Indonesia's biggest zoo, once boasting one of the most impressive and well cared for collections of animals in Southeast Asia, is struggling for its existence following reports of suspicious animal deaths and disappearances of endangered species. (AP Photo/Trisnadi, File)

New attention on what could be the world's worst zoo

Trisnadi Marjan The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 10:03am

SURABAYA, Indonesia -- The tigers are emaciated and the 180 pelicans packed so tightly they cannot unfurl their wings without hitting a neighbor. Last week, a giraffe died with a beachball-sized wad of plastic food wrappers in its belly.

That death has focused new attention on the scandalous conditions at Indonesia's largest zoo. Set up nearly a century ago in one the most biologically diverse corners of the planet, it once boasted the most impressive collection in Southeast Asia.

But today the Surabaya Zoo is a nightmare, plagued by uncontrolled breeding, a lack of funding for general animal welfare and even persistent suspicions that members of its own staff are involved in illegal wildlife trafficking.

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Tigers, leopard removed from home of former Tarzan actor

Angel Streeter Sun Sentinel

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 5:18pm

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla -- The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has removed three big cats from the Florida home of Steve Sipek, an actor who once played Tarzan.

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