🦇 RARE BAT SCARES PEOPLE AT CAMBODJA, 2020

Cambodja. In April 2020, reports began to appear about the appearance of strange creatures resembling a hybrid of a rat, frog and bat in China or Indochina. The information was inaccurate.

Initial popular news speculated that these creatures could have been generated by hybridizing bat and frog DNA to create a mutant version and that they could have escaped from one of the secret laboratories maintained in the region by certain agencies that can't be nominated.

These creatures can glide through the air (which gave them their reputation for flying), crawl and swim, but what surprised everyone most was their humanoid appearance.

According to local media reports, government agents were undertaking extensive investigation into the incidents and captured specimens for study. As this happened in 2020, it is clear that these authorities let the matter die and the case was forgotten, as always happens when today's media reports "curiosities" irresponsibly.

The shame of researchers from government agencies and the media who publicized the fact is that they do not have basic academic knowledge of biology, are not able to research and do not identify the animals as "Colugos" or Colutidae, arboreal planing  mammals native to Southeast Asia, the region of called Indochina.

They are rare. There are only two living species of colugos: the Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegatus) and the Philippine flying lemur (Cynocephalus volans).

Indochina is a region of Southeast Asia located between eastern India and southern China. Includes Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and sometimes Thailand and Myanmar. It depends on the map that is used.

In one of the videos used to spread the news, the speech of the people makes it clear that the incident recorded there took place somewhere in Cambodia since the language used in the comments is Khmer or Cambodian.

If there is anything unusual about this animal, besides its rarity, it is its presence in a backyard occupied by humans, far from natural shelter. A sign that it is lost or something has taken it away from its habitat.

Newspapers also reproduced the idea that the screaming morgego (yes, he screams like a demon hell) had escaped from a certain laboratory specializing in unorthodox experiments... and this occurred in the heaviest year of the covenon pandemonium.

This conjecture is not at all absurd. There is reliable news about the movements of mad scientists during this period:

The Pentagon reportedly controls biological weapons laboratories in about 25 different countries, including Ukraine. The rest are located in Georgia (the country), Iraq, Jordan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Cameroon, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, South Africa and Ivory Coast. (HUFF, 2022).

The editors of this blog are prevented from going further in providing information about certain laboratories due to platform requirements. For a little more see the last link in SOURCES.

SOURCES

Mysterious Humanoid Bats Reported In China and Argentina [???]

https://greatplainsparanormal.com/6341643-in-argentina-and-asia-the-invasion-of-humanoid-bats-are-they-preparing-a-replacement-for-people-alternative-view

COLUGO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colugo

🦥 Rondonia Paleo-burrows - Brazil Video & Update

IN THIS VIDEO The Geologist Amilcar Adamy shows the interior of the place he calls "The mysterious cave.

The man who accompanies him in the video - identified only as Aristeu - is the owner of the land where the giant burrows were discovered.

The tunnels were known for some time but only this year (2015) the nature of the structure has been studied enough to confirm its origin and nature: these tunnels and caves were made by the claws of huge sloths - the Megatheriums - in Pleistocene, period when the planet was inhabited by a megafauna - giant animals.

The Megatherium, extinct about 10,000 years ago, could reach up to 6 meters high weighing about 1.5 tons.

The alternative to explain the regular configuration of the caves - is also arcana. If were not Megatheriums, the galleries may have been dug by giant armadillos. 
(Transcription of the audio-video bellow)

BRAZIL. AMAZON REGION. RONDONIA state. A team from the Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais led by geologist Amilcar Adamy, found - at the region of Ponta do Abunã , the first paleo-burrow located at Brazilian Amazon region.

TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW OF THE GEOLOGIST 

Amilcar Adami, in the video:

'We are inside the mysterious cave, in the property of our friend, Aristeu. This cave already is known for some time. Since 2008, at least we know about its existence.

In 2010, we've been here and caught our attention the circular shape of the tunnels, indicating that  they don't result from a natural process.

This research went being developed for four years. Now, in July - 2015, we came here again - already with an established idea about the origin of these formations.

So, this cave, now we know it's a paleo-burrow,  developed, elaborated by extinct animals that could be giant armadillos or giant sloths.

By the shape and the dimensions of the place we believe it was excavated by giant slóths that could reach a ton and a half and up to six miders high.

These sloths become extinct there about ten thousand years. Is not known the cause of this extinction. Maybe climate change, changes in vegetation, but it is not a sure.

The discovery is important for the study of peleo-climate and peleo-fauna that inhabited this whole region.

In Madeira riverbed we met fossils of pre-ristoric animals, including sloths. We were searching to know where they lived and now we know that here, in this cave - they found their natural shelter.  

AMILCAR ADAMY

ORIGINAL VIDEO

Pesquisadores descobrem túnel feito por animais extintos na região amazônica
NOITE SINISTRA YouTube CH Published on Aug 7, 2015 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtFLf4Rm5ME]

Matamatá, the Jurassic turtle from Brazilian Amazon

PHOTO. Edson Souza

BRAZIL. ACRE state. On Monday, May 11 (2015), the graphic designer Edson Souza, 34 - on a farm near the town of Xapuri, 188 km far from the state capital, Rio Branco, was fishing with net in a local pond - when captured a strange turtle . The animal has a Jurassic aspect. It is a saury-turtle.

The biologist Moisés Barbosa identified the turtle. It is known as "Matamatá" and - despite the exotic appearance, it is a cataloged animal. Its scientific name is Chelus fribriatus, a typical reptile from  Amazon region. 

Live in areas of flooded forest and dams, especially at environment where water is dark, standing water, places where there the forest is preserved. It feeds, mainly - eating fishes.

The Matamatá has a carapace full of irregular ripples of rough appearance. Barbosa explained these strange features of Chelus fimbriatus: It is a prehistoric animal that inhabits the planet since between 250 and 300 million years.

It is one of the oldest specimens, which has not modified itself much over the ages. It has a large and wide neck. full of flexible fins. 

In water, these fins have an undulating movement what makes them seem algae. This acts as a camouflage allowing fish approach, potential preys for this ancient monster.

SOURCE
'Parece um dinossauro', diz jovem que pescou tartaruga exótica no AC
OLHAR DIRETO/BR, 14.May.2015
[http://www.olhardireto.com.br/noticias/exibir.asp?noticia=Parece_um_dinossauro_diz_jovem_que_pescou_tartaruga_exotica_no_AC&edt=22&id=396854]

The Sea Dragon of Andalusia

IMAGEM: HUFFINGTON POST/ESPAÑA, 

[http://www.huffingtonpost.es/2013/08/16/extrano-animal-costa-almeria_n_3768834.html]

SPAIN. THURSDAY, Aug. 15 (2013), the lifeless body of a unidentified marine being, appeared on the sands of Playa Luis Siret - coastal, pueblo of Villaricos, Cuevas del Almanzora, Spanish municipality in the province of Almeria - in Andalucía.

The animal, of fantastic appearance resembling a sea dragon, measuring about four meters long, had advanced signs of decomposition.

A bather, a woman - when faced with the strange creature, reported it by telephone - to the emergency service of Cuevas del Almanzora - which attends by the number 122.

Authorities were mobilized: the Civil Defense PROMAR contacted the Association for the Defense of Nature Navy (Marina Defensa de la Naturaleza) whose representatives, quickly, realized that the animal was... merely ... a whale ... (?!)

Meanwhile, members of the Asociación de la Defense en Fauna Marina Almería, according to its coordinator, Francisco Toledano, went to the place analyze the corpse and compare the creature with the pictures obtained. Toledano said:

We had access to the images of body on sands, probably thrown there by strong waves. The pictures are being sent to experts in an attempt to identify the specimen. At first glance it seems a kind of fish but the state of decomposition makes recognition.

Because of the health risks resulting from exposure of putrefying matter, the Civil Defense decided to bury the carcass.

THIS NEWS IN PORTUGUESE

O Dragão do Mar da Andalucía, 17/08/2013

[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2013/08/o-dragao-do-mar-da-andalucia.html]

SOURCE 

Analizan restos de un ‘extraño pez’ hallado en una playa de Almería.

M24DIGITAL/ARGENTINA, 17/08/2013  

[http://m24digital.com/2013/08/17/analizan-restos-de-un-extrano-pez-hallado-en-una-playa-de-almeria-imagen/]

LET'S REMEMBER - The Giant Piranha of Congo

DALY MAIL/UK, 21 October 2010

JAMES, Richard. 

British fisherman grapples with ferocious 'giant piranha'... which has been known to eat Crocodiles

REPUBLIC OF CONGO/África. British angler Jeremy Wade, 52-year-old (2010), captured an exemplar of the called "goliath tigerfish", that has a ferocious-looking, like a giant piranha -  during a fishing expedition along Congo River - Africa. 

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BRAZIL. Piranhas Attack Humans

Piranhas are a group of carnivorous freshwater fish. Inhabit some rivers of South America They belong to five genera of the subfamily Serrasalminae (which also includes fish such as pacu and the called golden fish).

The word "piranha" is a hybrid term that has its origin  in Tupi-guarani language  may have originated in the composition of the words 'pirá', meaning 'fish' + 'ranha', meaning 'tooth'.  Or - even, it can be originated  'pirá' ('fish') + 'Anha' ('cutter').

It is a fish very voracious predator gifted with very strong jaws. Most piranhas are fast, but usually attack when they are encouraged to do so. Among the numerous species of piranhas, some are cannibals - others, not, but all have aggressive behaviors. Piranhas are close relatives of Pacus and are often confused with them when still small.

RELATED LINK
THAN, Ker.  

Fears of 'Testicle-Eating' Fish Overblown

BITTTEN ON THE FOOT. On a Friday, July 26 (2013), a visitor of the State of Sao Paulo, the young Vitor Rodrigues Baptista, 15 years - was attacked during a walk in the Lagoon. The victim had to be hospitalized. 

CEARA state/BRAZIL - In Lagoa do Catu (Catu lagoon), at Aquiraz, metropolitan region of Fortaleza (state capital), a turistic point, attacks of "piranhas brancas" (pirampebas, white pirañas, serrasalmus brandti) are scaring the visitants - making impossible the baths and recreational activities on site.

On a Friday, July 26 (2013), a visitor of the State of Sao Paulo, the young Vitor Rodrigues Baptista, 15 years - was attacked during a walk in the Lagoon. The victim had to be hospitalized.

The attacks in the Lagoa de Catu are been happening since 2009 (even before) and has resulted in significant damage to local tourism.

There some years,  government actions have tried to combat superpopulation of piranhas which presence isn't natural in the environment.

The action of combat to the invasors includes the introduction of a natural predator of piranhas: the tilapias. However, this providence, in these almost four years, don't produced the effect desired. The population of piranhas remains constant and growing.

The Secretary of State for Fisheries and Aquaculture of Ceará, Ricardo Campos, explained that the attacks are occurring due to an imbalance in the food chain. 

The pirambebas are predators and, in environment of the lagoon,  they haven't enemies above them in the food chain nor the usual preys that are their food in their natural habitat.

So there is an imbalance: the fishes begin to practice the canibalism and, even, attack human beings to satisfy their hungry for meat.

The pirambeba is not native from that place and came to the pond after a flooding. The pirambeba is native of Ceara, but originally they live in the waters of the Lima Campos reservoir (distant 400 km from Aquiraz).

In 1992, with the construction of the Canal  do Trabalhador (a channel), which function is to conduce the water from the Jaguaribe river to supply the city of Fortaleza - new migration routes were created allowing the invasion of piranhas in watersheds that never before harbored this species.

PIAUI state. The invasion of piranhas is not restricted to freshwaters cearences. In Barragem do Bezerro (Bezerro dam), city of José de Freitas, Piaui state, in a single weekend, were reported around a hundred of attacks of those fishes.

 

Also at Piauí state, in 2011, the Barragem do Bezerro (Bezerro Dam, ABOVE) received 100,000 tilapia to try to control overpopulation of piranhas.  

BELOW: Lagoa do Portinho - Piaui, unauthorized access to bathers.

PARA state. At São Geraldo do Araguaia city, southeast of Pará state (brazilian North Region) - in Praia da Gaivota (Gaivota beach, Araguaia river), swimmers have been victims of attacks by piranhas.

 

Amid shadows of the stones: piranhas, the little carnivorous monsters of freshwater.

The technician of the health post of the beach, the nurse Danilo Barbosa, succours victims, injured in attacks, every weekend. He himself was a victim of bites and informs: We we attended average 10 to 15 cases of piranhas bites per day.

The cases have been happening there already for 4 years. Only in July this year (2013), 122 swimmers were victims of attacks. According to the firemen, the most cases occurs in a place of the beach where exists a large amount of stones. The biologist Cristina Vieira explains the behavior of the fishes. 

Possibly it is breeding season, then they can be protecting their offspring. Another motivation for their massive presence are the food scraps, thrown in the water by marketers and bathers. This attracts small species that are food for the piranhas. By this way, places like this can become a point of concentration for these voracious carnivores of freshwater.

The Fire Department can't ban the entry of the bathers in Praia das Gaivotas, but ensures that guides them about possible attacks piranhas in the river. IBAMA technicians, of the Municipal Environment Secretary are mapping the area to instruct security measures that able to prevent further attacks.  

RELATED LINK
THAN, Ker.  

Fears of 'Testicle-Eating' Fish Overblown

DENMARK. The recent capture of a fish species off the coast of Denmark that is rumored to sometimes mistake human male genitalia for nuts sparked fears of "testicle-eating fish" invading Scandinavian water... the fish is called pacu... Pacus look like piranhas...

MORE in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, August 13, 2013
[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130813-pacu-piranha-testicle-biting-fish-invasive-species/]

SOURCES: 

MADEIRO, Carlos. Ataque de piranhas afasta banhistas de lagoa turística no litoral do Ceará.

UOL NOTICIAS, 08/AUGUST/2013

[http://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/ultimas-noticias/2013/08/08/ataque-de-piranhas-afasta

banhistas-de-lagoa-turistica-no-litoral-do-ceara.htm]

Banhistas são atacados por piranhas em São Geraldo do Araguaia, PA.

G1, 29/JULY/2013

[http://g1.globo.com/pa/para/noticia/2013/07/banhistas-sao-atacados-por-piranhas-em-sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-pa.html]

Superpopulação de piranhas afasta turistas da Lagoa do Portinho no litoral piauiense.

JORNALESP/ESPERANTINA-PIAUÍ, 14/AUGUST/2011.

[http://jornalesp.com/doc/45426]

The mysterious silence of sacred baboons

MORE IMAGES: NOTICIAS-24/VENEZUELA

[http://www.noticias24.com/mascotas/noticia/17132/la-imagen-apatia-en-masa-babuinos-le-dan-la-espalda-a-los-visitantes-de-un-zoologico-en-holanda/]

NETHERLANDS/NL TIMES - 30/07/2013. Since of Monday, July 29th (2013), in the Dierenpark of the city of Emmen (province of Drenthe - Netherlands (Netherlands) - ie, at zoo that city - 112 baboons sacred (the hamadryas baboon, Papio hamadryas) have adopted, in conjunction, a strange attitude that, being called of apathy collective or, still, a type of hysteria, actually is a conduct that that veterinarians (and other specialists of zoology) fail to explain.

READ MORE... 

THIS NEWS IN PORTUGUESE
O Misterioso Silêncio dos Babuínos 
[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2013/08/o-misterioso-silencio-dos-babuinos.html]

The cannibal leopard of Nepal

Another case: at India, a leopard in full attack to a police officer. Deprived of the forests, their natural habitats, large predators are vying for space with humans in the vicinities of the new urban areas.

NEPAL. Saturday, November 3, 2012. The head of a child of 4 years old that had disappeared on Friday (02/11/2012), was found in western of Nepal. The boy was attacked and eaten by a mysterious and ruthless leopard that is terrorizing to the people at the country.

The police chief of the district of Baitadi - Kamal Prasad Khael, told EFE news agency that the head was found about a mile from the house where the child lived, near to a forest.

In three months, there are already 16 - the fatal victims of feline, 11 children and five women, of whom the oldest was 29. Police suspect it is the same animal that is hunting humans ... because this kind of predator always hunts alone.

In Baitadi district, the population is alarmed. Experts were called in to try to locate the leopard and a reward of 25,000 rupees (about $ 300) is been offered for the capture of the beast.

According to experts, the attacks of big cats to humans are proliferating in the Indian subcontinent because of the process of industrialization and urban expansion that every day is exterminating the forest enviroments that are the natural habitat of these predators.

THIS NEWS IN PORTUGUESE

[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2012/11/o-leopardo-antropofago-do-nepal.html]

SOURCE: El misterioso e implacable leopardo que se ha comido ya a 16 personas.

PERIODISTA DIGITAL, published in 03/11/2012.

[http://www.periodistadigital.com/ciencia/mundo-animal/2012/11/03/nepal-misterioso-felino-implacable-leopardo-nino-crio-humano-comido-16-personas.shtml]

Ophio... The "Zombiezating" Killer Fungus (that turns insects in Zombies)

An ant possessed by the killer fungus. IMAGE: National Geographic.

ANIMAL WORLD. A macabre fungus is transforming some species of ants in real zombies whose final destination is death.

The fungus, whose scientific name is Ophiocordodyceps, after entering into the victim's body, begins acting affecting the central nervous system, causing an abnormal behavior in the insects.

Slowly it grows, spreads occupying other parts of the body even reach the brain of the individual (the ant). At this point in the process of possession, the agent begins to neutralize the vitality of muscles and fibers, to control the mind; to kill.

The head of the infected falls over its neck. The ant is dying but, for some reason that scientists can not explain, the ultimate death happens, only in certain hour of the day: by midday.

After kill its host, the fungus killer emerges from the brain, evading through the orifices of the animal, full of spores, that are its seeds - ready to infect other ants.

Although it has been detected more frequently in ants, the Ophiocordodyceps (summarizing, the Ophio ...) or - the killer fungus, as it is being called, it also attacks bees, flies and crickets.

The Ophio ... the zombie factor of the animal world, is the perfect matrix for the development of a variant that could be used in humans which, incidentally, also belong to the animal world... And, NO. This editor is not suggesting nothing!

SOURCE: Un fungo killer sta trasformando le formiche in zombie e poi le uccide.

DIRETTA NEWS/Itália, published in 09/06/2012.

[http://www.direttanews.it/2012/06/09/un-fungo-killer-sta-trasformando-le-formiche-in-zombie-e-poi-le-uccide/]

The amazonian spiders and its giant webs

BRAZIL. Amazonas state. Amazonas state. In the city of Iranduba, metropolitan region of Manaus (state's capital) - the trees are periodically covered by cobwebs of the anelosimus - specie nearby the family of the 'black widows'.

In some cases the entire canopy of a tree is taken by this tissue produced by this spiders. Every three months, the locals clean the trees but the colony begins to produce the webs again.

A researcher at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), said that the phenomenon is unusual, since spiders tend to live alone. She also said that there is no need to worry about poison because its effects only affect insects.

SOURCE: Aranhas constroem teias gigantes no Amazonas
O Dia, published IN 09/02/2012
[http://odia.ig.com.br/portal/cienciaesaude/aranhas-constroem-teias-gigantes-no-amazonas-1.404869]

Rare albino capuchin monkey found at Marajo island

PARA state – The Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, IBAMA) received, on Friday (17/06/2011), a rare albino capuchin monkey (tufted capuchin or Cebus apella). The animal was rescued on the island of Marajo, Pará. According to the Institute, a local resident found the monkey abandoned and resolved delivered it to authorities.

IBAMA says the animal was kept in captivity and was abandoned. The substitute superintendent of IBAMA in Pará, Alex Lacerda, comments: It's common the capture or adoption of wild specimens when are puppies. They are created illegally while they are young and do not give problem. Then, often, when they become adults are discarded without none care.

By what appears, it was happened with this monkey. The IBAMA informed that when the animal was received, It was very thin, its tail was cutted and his tusks sawn. Many zoos, want to adopt the animal, but IBAMA says that the the majority of them is not able, haven't appropriate conditions to care the monkey. The institute even will go to decide where the animal will be sent.

FONTE: Macaco-prego albino é resgatado na ilha de Marajó, no Pará.
IN Jornal do Brasil, published in 17/06/2011
[http://www.jb.com.br/ciencia-e-tecnologia/noticias/2011/06/17/macaco-prego-albino-e-resgatado-na-ilha-de-marajo-no-para-2/]

The quadrupedal chick of Bahia

Photo: TV Subaé

BAHIA state/BRAZIL – At the locality of Matinha, district of the city of Feira de Santana, 108 km of the capital of Bahia state, Salvador city, a chick surprised the population. Mutant, borned four-footed, quadrupedal, the animal has less than a week of life and veterinarians belive that the creature will not be able live for much time more.

SOURCE: Ave quadrúpede desperta curiosidade no interior da Bahia.
IN G1, published in 11/06/2011
[http://g1.globo.com/bahia/noticia/2011/06/ave-quadrupede-desperta-curiosidade-no-interior-da-bahia.html]

😱 ONE CALF, TWO HEADS

update

The video above illustrates a situation that has become common on farms in Brazil and around the world. The images show a calf that was born with two heads in the rural area of Cotegipe city, located in the west of Bahia state.

The incident occurred on Friday (September 1, 2023) and surprised the farmer, Osvaldo Nascimento Almeida, 51 years old. The animal did not survive and died on Sunday morning (3). There are no details about the cause of death... 

Because of these "missing" videos, we created our YouTube channel. Help the channel grow: subscribe to @BRAZILWEIRDNEWS

BAHIA state/BRAZIL – In June, 7 (2011) – in the Agricon Farm, located in the district of Cumuruxatiba, Prado city, extreme south of the state of Bahia, a female calf birthed with two heads.

Despite appearing to be well, without respiratory problems, the animal can not stand on feet, on their limbs, because of the weight of the heads. This problem must cause the death of the creature.

SOURCES 

Bezerra nasce com duas cabeças no interior da Bahia.

IN Correio 24 Horas, published in 08/06/2011

[http://www.correio24horas.com.br/noticias/detalhes/detalhes-1/artigo/bezerra-nasce-com-duas-cabecas-no-interior-da-bahia/]

Bezerra nasce com duas cabeças na Bahia

G1, 04/09/2023

https://g1.globo.com/ba/bahia/noticia/2023/09/04/bezerra-nasce-com-duas-cabecas-na-bahia-veja-video.ghtml

One female dog. 25 puppies.

GOIAS state/BRAZIL – In Vianópolis city, 96 km far from the capital of Goias state, Goiânia, into a veterinary clinic, a female dog of Fila Brasileiro race named Jade, bore to 25 puppies. The mother not resisted to the efforts od more than two hours and died after that all the puppies had birthed.

The brood was that of 17 males and 8 females. The pregnancy of a female dog lasts about nine weeks. In the last three weeks, Jade suffered with pains and lack of mobility. She reached to seventy kilogram of weight. The owner, Mr. Bisamor Ferreira, told the dificulties: There were needed four men for carry her. It couldn't nor even drag herself.

Bisamor recorded throughout the procedure and will try include the dog female in the Guinness Book, the record books. The most numerous brood known even now was born in Germany have. There were 23 pups. Of the twenty-five brothers, sons of Jade, only 11 survived

SOURCE: BORGES, Raphael. Cadela tem 25 filhotes em Goiás, morre após o parto e pode entrar para o Guinness Book.
IN UOL Notícias, published in 31/05/2011
[http://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2011/05/31/cadela-tem-25-filhotes-em-goias-morre-apos-o-parto-e-pode-entrar-para-o-guinness-book.jhtm]

Little Lamb – Two Bodies. One head.

PARAÍBA state/BRAZIL – May, 25 – 2011. In the Sítio of Curral Velho, zona rural of 'Tapada São José da Lagoa' city, Paraíba state, A burrego (a little lamb, a lamb pup) born with eight legs and two bodies connected to an unique head.

Joao Pereira de Souza, a sheep breeder, pet owner, while was accompaning the birth perceived something unusual. The baby lamb had a serious problem. In fact, the cub was abnormal - with their two bodies and eight legs. It died. The mother resisted and survived.

SOURCE: Ovelha nasce com oito pernas e dois corpos ligados a uma cabeça no Sertão do Estado.IN PARAÍBA.COM.BR, published in 26/05/2011
[http://www.paraiba.com.br/2011/05/26/70567-ovelha-nasce-com-oito-pernas-com-dois-corpos-ligados-a-uma-cabeca-no-sertao-do-estado]

The Panthera in the backyard

PARA state/BRAZIL – At an agricultural settlement, in the region of "Pacajá", state of Para, north of Brazil – a teenager, a girl of 12 years old was mantaining a young "onça pintada" (Panthera onca, jaguar) like a pet animal.

The environmental analyst, Silvana Cardins tells that that the animal was found by the girl when was still a cub. The feline grows being feeded by the child and lived free till begins to attack other domestic animals of the neighbors.

Then, the family built a wood house to accommodate the big cat. Finaly, perceiving that this option could not solve the problem, they adopted the resolution of deliver the creature to cares of the authorities, in this case, the Ibama (Brazilian Institute for Enviroment). The onca (onça, sound of wordonssa) was taken to a Zoo at Paraopebas city.

SOURCE: Onça-pintada era criada em assentamento no Pará.
IN Globo/Amazonia, published in 06/06/2011
[http://oglobo.globo.com/cidades/mat/2011/06/05/onca-pintada-era-criada-em-assentamento-no-para-924617131.asp]

The mystery of deaths of the Sapucai river

MINAS GERAIS state/Brazil – At Itajubá city, south of Minas Gerais state, (in the holiday of 1º of may, 2011), two girls – Michelle Bittencourt, 16 years old e Vanessa Moreira, 17 – found The Death, mysteriously, in the waters of a river (Sapucaí river). The girls were there with relatives and friends. All were swimming in the river when, suddenly, the first girl begun to scream.

A second girl ran to help the other but, the same power that was pulling a one, began to make the same with the other. There wasn't time to aid the girls. Both were engulfed by the waters convulsed.

In the moment in what all happened, nobody understood the the situation. But, the scene was being filmed and by this way the tragedy stood recorded. When the images were reproduced, persons perceived a third element among the girls. A animal that was not possible to identify. The first assumption was that the creature was a snake, a sucuri, Anaconda.

Despite the video, there are controversies. The legist doctor, José Henrique Schuman, said no injuries were found on the bodies to confirm the hypothesis of an animal attack, snake or some other creature. Biologist Flavio Vasconcelos did not rule out that the teenagers have been frightened by the presence of an animal. In this case, the panic would have caused the drowning. The bank of river is shallow but the water deepens become few steps forward. After examining the site, firefighters believe that the victims fell into an open ditch in the sand from the river bottom

The case made ​​headlines. Appeared on TV. Given the controversy, the police of Itajuba city considers the possibility of exhuming the bodies of the two teenagers, who were buried without autopsies.

SOURCES:
Vídeo mostra jovens sendo atacadas por ser não identificado em lago.
IN O Dia,published in 20/05/2011
[http://odia.terra.com.br/portal/brasil/html/2011/5/video_mostra_jovens_sendo_atacadas_por_ser_nao_identificado_em_lago_165802.html]
Cobra pode não ter causado afogamento de adolescentes.
IN EPTV/Globo, published in 22/05/2011
[http://eptv.globo.com/noticias/NOT,4,72,350374,itajuba+cobra+sucuri+afogamento+Meninas+que+morreram+afogadas+podem+ter+caido+em+buraco+no+rio.aspx]
Polícia estuda exumar corpos de adolescente afogadas em rio em MG.
IN R7, published in 27/05/2011
[http://noticias.r7.com/cidades/noticias/policia-estuda-exumar-corpos-de-adolescente-afogadas-em-rio-em-mg-20110527.html]

🐝 THE KILLER BEES

Illustrative image

PARAÍBA state/Brazil – Wednesday, May 11, 2011. At the BR-405 highway, on the stretch between the cities of São João João do Rio do Peixe and Marizópolis, in hinterland of the Paraíba state (northeast of Brazil), an attack of furious bees resulted in death of three persons.

The attack involved a car (automobile) and a motorcycle. Mr. Francisco Peixoto de Araújo, his son of 10 years, Lucas Alves Andrade and Venilson Tavares da Silva, 14 years, were on board of the motorcycle when the driver was surprised by the swarm. He lost the control of the vehicle and hitted against the car.

Firefighters and police officers who participated in the rescue operation of victims were also attacked by bees and were submited to medical cares.

SOURCES

✅ Ataque de abelhas mata três pessoas na Paraíba

G1, MAY 18, 2011

https://g1.globo.com/bom-dia-brasil/noticia/2011/05/ataque-de-abelhas-mata-tres-pessoas-na-paraiba.html

Ataque de abelhas mata três pessoas na Paraíba.

IN Portal MS, published in 18/05/2011

[http://www.portalms.com.br/noticias/detalhe.asp?cod=959610878] 😟

Hospital de CZ confirma morte da terceira vítima de acidente provocado por enxame na BR 405.

IN Paraíba, published in 13/05/2011

[http://www.paraiba.com.br/2011/05/13/67621-hospital-de-cz-confirma-morte-da-terceira-vitima-de-acidente-provocado-por-enxame-na-br-405] 😟

Morre segunda vítima do acidente com enxame de abelhas no Sertão.

IN Paraíba, published in 11/05/2011

[http://www.paraiba.com.br/2011/05/11/01738-morre-segunda-vitima-do-acidente-com-enxame-de-abelhas-no-sertao] 😟

Giant Tortoise in Piauí

PIAUÍ (state), Brazil – Friday, may, day 13, in the first hours of dawn, a giant turtle was spotted in "Pedra do Sal", a beach located on Parnaíba city, Piauí state's shore.

According the biologists of the "Projeto Tartarugas do Delta" (Delta's Turtles Project), the turtle, measuring 1.6 meters long and 2.4 meters wide, belongs to the specie Leatherback sea-turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). Not were found markings or rings of identification in the body of the animal. It means that this turtle is not monitored by none work related to its specie.

A Leatherback sea-turtle can reach thus 2 meters of lenght and weigh arou 500 to 900 kilograms. The byologist Mr. Mario Neto explain that the Delta Project is monitoring the reproductive period on the region since 2007, between the months from December to July.

Among all species of sea turtle, the leatherback sea-turtle has a large geographic distribution, but their spawning is restricted to tropical and subtropical areas. In Brazil, was belived that the state of the Espírito Santo (state) was the only place where regular annual spawning could occur. Eventualy, was possible that the spawns, in aleatory way, could happen in other parts of the Brazilian coast.

However, throughout the study, conducted by "Projeto Tartarugas do Delta", belongs to the NGO - "Comissão Ilha Ativa" from 2007, the presence of the leatherback turtle was confirmed in the Piauí shore in all breeding seasons. This species of turtle is one the most threatened with extinction in Brazil.

SOURCE: Tartaruga gigante é encontrada na praia da Pedra do Sal, litoral do PI.
IN 180º Piauí, published in 05/14/2011
[http://180graus.com/geral/tartaruga-gigante-e-encontrada-na-praia-da-pedra-do-sal-litoral-do-pi-426324.html]

🐟 🌊 STRANGE WATER WORLD

MEXICO – In El Desemboque, a little port town of the Mexican state of Sonora, northwestern of the country, fishermen caught a strange animal. Apparently it is a fish, however, seems to be a creature extremely antiga. 

The strange fish is monstrous and has a pre-historic appearance. The news says the animal measures 3 meters of lenght but, judging by the photo there is exaggeration in this dimension (or the fisherman holding the animal is endowed with low height). Your weight (of the fish): 70 kilograms. 

The fishermen published the photo of the creature on newspapers in the hope of someone, a biologist - perhaps can clarify: what animal is this?

SOURCE 

Atrapan pescadores a una ‘rara criatura’.

IN Expresso/Mexico, published in 05/10/2011

[http://www.expreso.com.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16454:atrapan-pescadores-a-una-rara-criatura&catid=17:vistazo&Itemid=71]