Mammals

US: Virus likely causing dolphin deaths

By BROCK VERGAKISAugust 27, 2013 GMT

NORFOLK, Virginia (AP) — Federal officials identified a virus Tuesday as the likely reason hundreds of bottlenose dolphins died along the East Coast, but they say there's little they can do to stop the deaths.

Giffords’ husband pulls dog off sea lion in Calif.

By SUE MANNINGMarch 27, 2013 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The daughter of former astronaut Mark Kelly was walking her dog Shiner on Goff Island Beach when the dog bolted, ripping the leash from her hand and fatally attacking a beached baby sea lion.

Mountain lion killed in Conn. traced to S. Dakota

STEPHEN DOCKERYJuly 26, 2011 GMT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A mountain lion killed on a Connecticut highway last month had apparently walked halfway across the country from South Dakota, according to Connecticut environmental officials who said Tuesday that the journey of roughly 2,000 miles was one of the longest ever recorded for a land mammal.