Body of boy pulled under water by alligator at Disney resort founnd intact

The body of the missing 2-year-old boy has finally been located after an exhaustive search ... and after analyzing the remains, cops believe the alligator drowned the child.
TMZ reports the name of the boy was also released ... 2-year-old Lane Graves from Elkhorn, Nebraska -- and his parents, Matt and Melissa.The Orange County sheriff said Lane's body was located 10-15 yards from where he was pulled under water ... in about 6 feet of water. They said the body is still intact.

A rep for Fish and Wildlife said they will run forensics on the 5 gators they've pulled out of the Seven Seas Lagoon to determine if one of them is responsible for the child's death. They said if they can't find a match ... they'll continue searching for the culprit.

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PETA boss slams Disney after police kill 5 alligators in hunt for boy dragged to his death

The head of animal charity PETA has hit out at Disney after at least four alligators were killed by police searching for a young boy dragged to his death at the company's Florida resort.
Officers hunting for the two-year-old took reptiles from the water and euthanised them to see if there were any human remains inside.
The tot, named tonight as Lane Graves of Elkhorn, Nebraska, was pulled away as he paddled on the shore of the five-star Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Orlando, Florida.


Now the British-born head of PETA has criticised officials over the alligator deaths, saying the creatures were "doing only what came naturally to them".
Speaking to Mirror.co.uk, Ingrid Newkirk said:

"Disney, knowing that there were alligators in that water, should have installed warning signs because it's not news that alligators are natural predators."Yet now a child and four alligators, who were doing only what came naturally to them, have paid with their lives," she continued.
"The price of paving paradise and putting up a parking lot is that amusement parks, hotels, shopping malls, golf courses, and highways have shrunk the habitat that wildlife needs to survive."

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Alligator drags toddler into water near Disney hotel in Florida

Police are searching for a toddler who was dragged into the water by an alligator near one of Disney’s premier resorts.
The reptile clenched its jaws around the two-year-old and pulled the child into a nearby lagoon
The drama unfolded near the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa hotel, a popular Disney destination with Brits.

Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Rose Silva said the toddler was last seen at 9.30pm being taken into the Seven Seas Lagoon.
Police are searching the waters and have put crime-scene tape around the water.

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Incredible moment chimp smiles and hugs woman who saved her 25 years ago

This is the incredible encounter between animal behaviorist Linda Koebner and a chimp she rescued 25 years ago. Koebner, who founded the non-profit chimpanzee sanctuary Chimp Haven in Louisiana, spent four years teaching the chimps how to be wild in southern Florida after they were released from the hepatitis research lab where they lived .

She then returned to the enclosure and was greeted with open arms by the chimps, which was captured on camera and featured on the PBS documentary The Wisdom of the Wild. 'Do you remember me?' she asked

Koebner, a graduate at the time, helped ease the chimps into living outside and how to fend for themselves.

But she hadn't been back in two decades, so decided to visit the few who remained, The Dodo reported.

'It's been so long,' she says in the documentary. 'Oh, you look great.'

In the footage, Koebner takes a boat over a small body of water to where the chimps live. As she nears the other side, a chimp comes to greet her.

'Do you remember me?' she asks.

A chimp named Swing reaches out a hand to Koebner from the dock, and cracks a huge smile.Then suddenly another chimp, named Doll, runs over excitedly.Koebner is overcome with tears as the two chimps lovingly embrace her.

They were terrified to get out of the security of their transport cage,' Koebner says in the documentary. 'Whether it was afraid to step on the grass, they hadn't been on anything but hard bars for years, or just the feel of the wind and the sun. 'They just huddled in the doorways and wouldn't come out.'

 Chimpanzees share 98.8 percent of human DNA and have been used as test subjects for drugs and vaccines.This experimentation only stopped in the US last year, when chimpanzees were listed as an endangered species.Koebner founded Chimp Haven in 1995 as a refuge for 'lab chimps' who were no longer needed for testing.

25 years ago

when she rescued them

 Culled from Mailonline

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Shocking moment lion attempts to pounce on little boy but slams into glass(Photos and Video)

A heart-stopping video from Chiba, Japan shows a little boy turning his back on a lion enclosure only for  it to charge forward and pounce - only stopped by the glass wall.

The adorable tot, just two-years-old can be seen watching the male lion crouching by the rock at the back of the large class-enclosed space. the boy doesn't run away, he simply spins around to face the lion, his hand held out as he stumbles backward.

Maybe in his childish innocence he thought the big cat was just trying to come and play.

According to zookeepers the lion reportedly weighs more than 400lbs. They claim he often gets excited when he sees small children and wants to play with them.

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Shocked tourists who camped out at night - wake up to see Lions licking the outer part of their tent (See photos)

Francie Francisca Lubbe and her partner who were on holiday, set up a tent to pass the night in the Mabuasehube game reserve, Botswana. They did and woke up to the shock of their lives. It had rained overnight and when they opened their eyes in the morning, they saw a number of lionesses outside, licking the dew off the sides of their flimsy tent and also wandering about.

They were able to stabilize themselves and remain calm and thankfully the two animals seemed more interested in licking the dew off the sides of their tent rather than attacking them. See more photos below...

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Angry camel bites off owner's head he left it tied up in the heat all day

A camel, who was tied outside its owner’s house in the heat all day, killed him when the man finally remembered to untie the animal. The incident was reported in Barmer in Rajasthan on Saturday. It reportedly took 25 villagers six hours to calm the animal down.

According to a report in The Times of India, the owner, Urjaram, had forgotten to untie his camel during the day, and suddenly remembered while he was entertaining guests at home.

When he went out to untie the camel, it attacked him, picking him up by the neck and throwing him in the ground. A villager told TOI that the camel chewed the owner’s body and severed his head in the process. 

"The animal lifted him by the neck and threw him on to the ground, chewed the body and severed the head," villager Thakara Ram said. Villagers revealed that the camel had attacked him before.

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PETA slams Justin Bieber for posing with chained tiger

Justin Bieber is under fire for posing with a chained tiger.Justin took the photo when he went to celebrate the engagement of his father, Jeremy Bieber, to his now fiancée Chelsey Rebelo. Animal rights organization PETA is slamming him.PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange said to E! News in a statement.

"Justin Bieber is lucky not to have had his throat torn out by this stressed captive tiger," "Tigers used for photo ops are torn away from their mothers shortly after birth, and the Bowmanville Zoo, in particular, was caught whipping one tiger more than 17 times, even after the cat was lying on his back in a position of submission and fear. This is why PETA urges everyone to stay far away from cruel and dangerous big-cat photo ops and also why we're asking Justin to vow that this will be his last time promoting these types of abusive outfits."

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Oh No..Mother finds a python biting into her young son's head (See Graphic Photo)

A mother who woke to her son's screams found him lying in bed with a large python biting down on his head.The boy's mother, Tammy, ripped the three metre snake off her young son's face on Thursday night after the reptile managed to slither into their Macksville, northern NSW home.

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Lol...Jealous lioness attacks her partner after catching him flirting with another lioness (see photos)

61-year-old Leon Botha who was on holiday in Botswana was lucky to capture a remarkable sight. A lioness knocking her male partner to the ground in a jealous fit after she caught another lioness snooping around him. Leon was taking photographs at the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park when a lion and a lioness came in for a drink. The lioness walked ahead of her partner while he lagged behind. As if seeing her chance, a second lioness sidled up to the male lion while he waited for his partner to return.

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Nairobi on alert after 6 lions escape from National Park, one caught, 5 still missing

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is looking for about six lions on the loose from the Nairobi National Park. The lions are believed to have escaped to Lang’ata, which is adjacent to the park today. KWS Corporate Communications Officer Paul Udoto said they were not certain of the number of the lions.

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