West Miami Elderly Couple Receives New Puppy After Pet Chihuahua Was Killed by Pack of Dogs (VIDEO)

The couple was hospitalized after being absolutely heartbroken at the death of their chihuahua.

At CBS News 4 Miami:

Terrified Abused Dog Screams While Being Petted for the First Time (VIDEO)

The dog, Priscilla, is just a puppy from Romania, apparently.

At London's Daily Mail, "Heartbreaking cries of abandoned dog that had been abused for so long it did not know how to react when it was shown affection for the first time."

And at the Mirror UK, "Abused pup doesn't know how to react when being hugged for first time in heartbreaking video."

Watch, "Heartbreaking Abused Dog Screams as It Is Stroked for the Very First Time."

Mountain Lion Captured in San Dimas (VIDEO)

Cool video.

I love how the lion takes a few swings before being thrown into the animal control truck.

Black Bear Caught on Video in Monrovia (VIDEO)

This is no ordinary bear either. It's a huge black bear with a deep brown coat.

He was just chilling around the neighborhood. A grown man would not be able to fight off a bear that size with his bare hands.

What a trip.

Watch, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Large Bear Roams Monrovia Neighborhood."

Tiger Kills Zookeeper in New Zealand

A woman zookeeper.

She had a good run, but then, I suppose one thinks they're soul mates with these animals, and after a while you put your guard down.

At London's Daily Mail, "Pictured: The 43-year-old woman zookeeper who was mauled to death by a tiger at a New Zealand zoo while cleaning the enclosure... who listed 'interacting with animals' as her great love."

And at the Sydney Australian, "Oz the Sumatran tiger kills zookeeper in Hamilton, New Zealand."

Also at the New Zealand Herald, "Hamilton Zoo's tiger won't be put down."

Chicken Stops Traffic on Oakland's Bay Bridge (VIDEO)

OMG this is a riot.

You gotta love the chick-crossed-the-bridge jokes.

At the San Francisco Chronicle, "Chicken stops traffic at Bay Bridge toll plaza."

At CBS News 5 San Francisco, "Fowl Play: Chicken Halts Traffic at Bay Bridge Toll Plaza."

Overgrown Sheep Seen Wandering Near Canberra

So, what would sheep do with without their human masters, heh?

At the BBC, "Australia urgent plea to shear overgrown sheep."

The poor sheep couldn't even see, the wool had literally grown over its eyes.

Lake Elsinore Man May Lose Hand After Being Bitten While Trying to Take Selfie with Rattlesnake

Definitely not too smart.

At CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Lake Elsinore Man May Lose Hand After Attempting To Take Selfie With Rattlesnake."

Hippo Kills an Impala That's Stuck in Mud

It's a jungle out there.

Or a hard-luck water hole, heh.

P-32 Mountain Lion Killed Trying to Cross Interstate 5 Near Castaic

It's almost inevitable. The lions just aren't going to have enough living space when the come down by metropolitan Los Angeles. This P-32 guy is apparently the most-tracked Southern California puma ever. But he made one last crossing, and it was fatal.

I love these guys too. Sad.

At LAT, "Male puma known as P-32 is killed crossing 5 Freeway in Castaic":

Mountain Lion Famous for Crossing LA Freeways Is Killed Crossing a Freeway http://t.co/Du0Ww27ea1

— ECommerce News (@ECommerceNews1) August 13, 2015

The journey of a mountain lion that successfully crossed four highways came to an end early Monday when it was struck and killed by a vehicle as it tried to make another run across a major L.A. freeway.

The puma named P-32 is the only known male to venture out of the Santa Monica Mountains and wander north into other habitat areas, said Kate Kuykendall, a spokeswoman for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

P-32 was best known for dashing across the 101 Freeway near Thousand Oaks on April 3. He managed to cross Highway 23 near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and settled into a natural area in the Simi Hills. He had also crossed highways 118 and 126.

But P-32’s journey, deemed to be “a textbook case of successful dispersal," was cut short. The 21-month-old puma headed east and tried to cross the 5 Freeway between 4 and 6 a.m. when he was hit in Castaic.

“This case illustrates the challenges that mountain lions in this region face, particularly males,” wildlife ecologist Seth Riley said in a statement.

“P-32 conquered all kinds of freeways and highways to reach the Los Padres," he continued, "but it was probably another dominant male that made him leave the area and attempt one last crossing, which obviously was not successful.”

P-32 is the first male to be studied that successfully fled the mountains.

He is the 12th mountain lion killed on a freeway or road since researchers began studying the mountain lion population in 2002 to determine how they survive in the city...

Brown Bear Goes for Swim in La Cañada Pool

La Cañada's up by Pasadena. It's hotter than hell up there, and lots of mountains.

Watch, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Bear Takes Dip In Pool of La Cañada Flintridge Home."

Groundhog With Head Stuck in a Can is Rescued by Police

Heh.

Watch, at Euronews, "Groundhog with head stuck in can rescued by police."

Eagle Takes Out Drone

It's like a war on drones, including animal armies, heh.

At CNN, "Eagle knocks drone out of sky."

Rare White Humpback Whale Spotted Off Australia's Gold Coast (VIDEO)

He's a celebrity down there, it turns out.

At the Brisbane Times, "White whale spotted off Gold Coast may be Migaloo."

Hiker is Mauled to Death and Partially Eaten in Grizzly Bear Attack at Yellowstone (VIDEO)

At the Missoulian, Missoula, Montana, "Montana man found dead in Yellowstone attacked, partially consumed by grizzly bear"

BILLINGS – Evidence shows that a hiker found dead in Yellowstone National Park was attacked and partially consumed by a grizzly bear, according to a release from park officials.

Investigators found what appeared to be defensive wounds on the man's forearms, but haven't determined an exact cause of death. Tracks from a female grizzly and at least one cub were found at the scene.

Park officials did not release the hiker's name, but said he's a Montana resident who has worked and lived at Yellowstone for five years and was an experienced hiker.

A park ranger found the man's body on a popular off-trail area about half a mile from the Elephant Back Loop Trail. His body was cached, partially covered in dirt.

The trail and immediate area remain closed.

Officials set bear traps in the area Friday evening. If bears involved in the attack are captured, they will be euthanized...

Not sure if I support putting the bears down. They didn't do anything wrong.

Plus, watch at ABC News, "Hiker Likely Killed by Bear in Yellowstone National Park."

At Katmai National Park, With Thousands of Bears Near Campground Every Summer, Visitors Must Follow the Rules

Can't be too careful with those bears. Big bears. Hungry bears, heh.

Here's video, "The Bears are Back!"

And at the New York Times, "At Katmai National Park in Alaska, Bears Rule":

Katmai National Park sprawls over four million acres in southern Alaska. So why does its only established campground allow for just 60 people per night — a limit that leads to an online booking fray every January? The answer is also one of the park’s main draws, and its primary claim to national fame: bears. Lots of them — about 2,200 at the National Park Service’s last count, with 60 or so regulars that hang around Brooks Camp every summer. In theory, you can camp elsewhere in Katmai, but the campground has an electric fence and constant activity, making it an unlikely place to find a bear too close to your tent for sleeping comfort.

By last spring, just about a year into my life as a full-time Alaskan, I had designs on spending time at Brooks Camp, long considered one of the state’s premier bear-viewing spots. Campground spots for July — peak season for viewing brown bears fishing, establishing hierarchy and practicing their version of flirting (the boys can be such pests) — can be reserved as of Jan. 5 every year, and go quickly. So by early May, having missed my window, I had long given up on making it, figuring I would have to spend another season watching the bears via webcams.

Streaming since July 2012, Katmai’s webcams, set up by Explore.org, (there are four trained on brown bear fishing areas) have turned the local bears into social media celebrities and, for their most loyal followers, the biggest incentives to board a floatplane to Brooks, where dozens of bears return each summer to bulk up on salmon in the Brooks River. (Bulk is the operative word; by November, when the bears start turning in for their long winter’s naps, the males can weigh 1,000 pounds or more.)

My Facebook feed had been lighting up with bear news for weeks — friends across the country all playing a seasonal parlor game trying to figure out if bear 32, a.k.a. Chunk, had improved his fishing skills or if bear 814, a.k.a. Lurch, was going to calm down this year, or if he would continue to intimidate other bears out of their prized fishing spots. The live streams had interrupted more than a few of my own work hours, too.

While on a spring camping trip in Denali National Park, an acquaintance casually presented a near-miraculous offer: “I reserved a camping spot for two people at Brooks Camp in July but can’t use it. You want it? I think it was about $50.” I recruited my Anchorage-born friend Tara Stevens, an experienced angler, and we were off. The virtual experience, I hoped, would soon be real.

After an Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to the town of King Salmon, we collected our bags stuffed with layers of clothing, rain gear, camping and cooking gear, and food, and headed to the Katmai Air Service office for the flight to Brooks Camp, which sits at the confluence of Naknek Lake and the Brooks River. After weighing in for the flight — when traveling by floatplane in Alaska, you get used to people telling you to hop on a scale — we were soon climbing skyward in a blue and white 1962 de Havilland Otter, its single engine drowning out any conversation.

Thick clouds hung overhead and even the grassy areas below looked slightly gray. Color broke through now and again — bright green roofs on a small group of buildings below, a pale aqua river threading through the glum landscape.

Twenty minutes later, we descended onto Naknek Lake, the plane bumping along on its floats toward the driftwood-strewn beach and the Brooks Camp employees waiting there. (Brooks Camp also has cabins run by a park concessionaire, Katmailand; they’re spare and pricey but a good option for the camping-averse.) Everybody on the plane, which holds 10 passengers, was a bit giddy as we rolled toward the start of the summer adventure, like the first moments arriving at sleep-away camp.

We were directed to the visitors’ center for the “Brooks Camp School of Bear Etiquette,” meant to keep visitors and the bears coexisting peacefully. Orientation started with a 10-minute film. The clothing and hairstyles were delightfully out of date, but the how-to’s still applied: Keep 50 yards from any bear; 100 yards from a bear with cubs. Move back as a bear moves closer. When hiking, stay alert and make sounds — talking and clapping — so bears know you’re there. If a bear gets too close, don’t run — it may think you’re prey. Speak to the bear in a firm but calm voice. Then start to walk back slowly. Give the bear the right of way.

After the film, a ranger rehashed some of the key points, gave us lapel pins that indicated we had been through bear school, and sent us on our way.

We loaded our gear onto a wheeled cart and headed down the trail toward the campground. Though it was about a third of a mile from the visitors’ center, that first walk seemed quite a bit longer. Thick woods were on the left and, on our right, a thinnish strip of trees blocking our view of the beach, where, it had been made clear, bears loved to wander.

“How has nobody been mauled here?” Tara asked. We kept a slightly-louder-than-normal rambling conversation going. There might have been singing.

Soon enough we rolled the cart through the campground’s electric fence, which didn’t look as if it could keep out a kitten. It was tempting to touch the fence, but I decided to trust the park service and stayed shock free.

The tent up, we headed back down the trail to grab dinner at the lodge.

But before long: “Bear in camp! Bear in camp!”

A ranger’s shout went up outside the lodge, warning people to stay or get inside. The dining room tables emptied as people ran to the windows. Two brown bears, their long claws in clear view, loped through the camp, did a few circles just feet from the lodge porch, and ran back off. I had spent plenty of time in bear country before, but the pair’s romp made it so much clearer that we were playing in the bears’ world. I got ever that much giddier about spending two nights exploring the area...

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Police Department Officers Shoot Pit Bull After Attack on City Worker in South Los Angeles (VIDEO)

I hope the worker wasn't hurt. And I feel sorry for the dog, although I just wouldn't own one.

At CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Police Shoot Pit Bull After Attack on City Worker."

And it's more than one dog, at ABC News 7 Los Angeles, "LAPD OFFICERS SHOOT AT 2 PIT BULLS AT SOUTH LOS ANGELES PARK."

Cool Chameleon Like to Pop Bubbles

Reason number umpteenth million why we love the Internet.

At ABC News San Francisco, "WATCH: This chameleon is super excited to pop bubbles."

And on YouTube, "This clever chameleon just can't get enough of popping bubbles."

Shark Flips Over Fisherman Kayaking in Middle of the Ocean (VIDEO)

Lolz.

This is pretty good. That fisherman was doing the Mark Spitz boogie back to the main boat, heh.

Watch: "Watch shark flip over kayaker in middle of ocean."

Grizzly Bear Climbs on Car at Yellowstone National Park

Pretty fascinating, actually.

Good thing the folks inside kept their windows rolled up, considering.

Watch: "Grizzly Bear Clambers Over Family Car."