Month: August 2022

DECATUR COUNTY — At approximately 11:47 am Wednesday, a deputy with Decatur County Deputies ordered repossession of a residence in the 4900 block of East County Road 280 North.

When the deputy arrived, he found multitudes of neglected animals, including several that were dying and/or deceased throughout the parameters of the property.

The deputy contacted the prosecutor’s officer and obtained a search warrant for the property.

During the search warrant, 318 live animals were reserved from the property alongside 24 dead animals and 23 that were euthanized on the scene.

A report from police states that the animals were malnourished and without food and little water available.

Images of the animals provided by the Decatur County Sheriff’s Office are below, be warned some of them are graphic in nature.

The deputies were assisted by Decatur County Deputies, Greensburg Fire Department, Decatur County

This column is part of a series where Verge staff post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.

There’s nothing like a baby hippo to remind me there are still good things in this world, and we have Bibi the hippo to thank for a brand-new 60-pound social media stars.

Bibi, a hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo, gave birth to her latest little one this week. To commemorate her achievement, the zoo has gifted us with a Twitter feed filled with little ear wigs.

I don’t know about you, but I need these little snippets of joy.

Does it suck to wear a mask while writing in my office because I don’t want the latest COVID-19 surge to derail my summer plans? Yes. Does that mask make me even more prone

• Mosquitoes kill between 750,000 and 1 million humans every year.
• There could be an estimated 110 trillion mosquitoes on Earth, 16,000 per human.
• The Nile crocodile, found in sub-Saharan Africa, is the most aggressive animal in the world.

From alligators to hippos to pythons, Earth’s animals aren’t always the most peaceful, especially wild ones.

Ourworldindata.org says humans have identified over two million animal species; yet, there are an estimated five to 10 million speciesincluding those undiscovered, on the planet.

According to a study from Utah State University’s Department of Wildland Resources, “over 47,000 people annually in the United States sought medical attention after being attacked or bitten by wildlife.”

What’s the one animal that outranks all others in terms of danger, and what should you do if you come across it?

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“Tiger in US zoo tests positive for coronavirus, becomes first animal to get COVID-19,” an April 2020 headlines proclaimed.

Hardly.

The story was referencing 4-year-old Malayan tiger, Nadia, who contracted COVID early in the pandemic, along with six other tigers at the Bronx Zoo—likely after being cared for by a presymptomatic zoo worker.

It was the first in what would become a steady stream of stories about animals who, like most of us, came down with COVID. Among the menagerie of animals who have, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

• Pets like cats, dogs, ferrets, and hamsters.
• Zoo animals like lions, tigers, snow leopards, otters, hyenas, hippos, and manatees.
• Mink who live on farms.
• Wildlife, including scores of white-tailed and mule deer, a black-tailed marmoset, and a giant anteater.

COVID is infamously no exception to the “zoonotic” diseases that animals have transferred to humans, or