I really want to get in the habit of blogging every day, so I'm back with some news items that interest me. "Vets euthanize wounded sea lion" is an article by Carolyn Jones about a disoriented sea lion who crossed Highway 101 and got named Broadway Bound because the rescuers found her at the Broadway exit in Burlligame. She had to be euthanized because she wouldn't eat, didn't respond to people--even those bringing herring-- and she kept trying to climb the fence around the enclosures. She had a "chronic brain impairment" and couldn't go back to the bay or learn to live at a zoo or aquarium, so they put her to sleep. She had a necropsy, and there was a bullet fragment in the left side of her brain. Fishermen have been shooting sea lions, their fishing competitors. She was also suffering from seizures caused by eating fish poisoned by toxic algae.
Another sad story is the one about the animals like hippos, elephants, and buffalo in East Africa who are so desperate for water and food that they've been invading villages and hurting people. .
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