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Animals on the rampage

It's not enough that a stingray jumped into a boat to stab a Florida man. There were weird animal tales all over the globe the past couple of days...

By Wire services
Published October 20, 2006

Angry elephants

A herd of wild elephants rampaged through a village in southeastern Bangladesh on Thursday, killing five members of one family. The victims were asleep in their thatched hut when the elephants trampled them to death. Conservationist Ainun Nishat theorized that the village may have once been a feeding area, and that the elephants may have become angry.

Call him sparky

Classes were canceled for about 7,000 students at Merced College on Wednesday. The power at the California school went out when a squirrel ate through the wiring leading to a transformer. It took a crew of half a dozen about seven hours to fix it. The squirrel, however, couldn't be fixed.

Bamboo boo-boo

Those panda cubs can't tell the difference between a thumb and lunch. That's what an American visitor to a wildlife reserve in southwest China found out. She was working as a volunteer on Tuesday, feeding the cub, when it munched off 20 percent of her thumb. The woman cried out, scaring the cub, which reacted by chomping down harder.

Me? Shoot a bear?

King Juan Carlos of Spain is denying reports that he killed a bear while on a trip to Russia. The report isn't so simple as him just killing a bear, though. A Russian newspaper is saying the king's host got Mitrofan - the bear had a name - all woozy on vodka-laced honey, then sent him stumbling into the area that the king was hunting. The king's spokeswoman says that yes, the king was in Russia then, but insists that he didn't kill any bear, much less a drunk one.

Times wire services

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