Dangerous animal round up.

It's not that I'm obsessed with animals, it's just that they are consistently better than people. Take the Kamchatka brown bear invasion in Russia. Terrified workers at a mining compound in one of Russia's most isolated regions are refusing to go to work after a pack of giant bears attacked and ate two of their colleagues. At least 30 of the hungry animals have been seen prowling close to the mines in northern Kamchatka in search of food, where the mangled remains of the two workers, both guards, were found last week.

[Look! He's like people]

The co-workers at the compound in the Olyotorsky district are trapped and frightened: the gruesome discovery has left them too scared to venture out. A team of snipers, with orders to shoot the bears, is now being dispatched to confront the invasion after government officials authorised an off-season hunt. A spokesman for the local government in the capital, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, said that the area was so isolated that it would take until at least Saturday to get there. Attempts to reach the scene by helicopter had to be abandoned because of thick fog. The Kamchatka brown bear is one of the world's largest, with males growing to around three metres (10ft) and weighing up to 700kg (1,540lb). They can also reach speeds of up to 30mph (48km/h) despite their size. The peninsula, nine timezones east of Moscow and twice the size of Britain, is home to an estimated 16,000 bears.

[A plucky hound about to be ended]

In chimp news...

JAPANESE SHOGUN CHIMP MASTER ESCAPES ZOO
Amazing, it laughs at guns, is impervious to drugged darts, terrifies its pursuers (and eventually comes down from the roof for a ‘nana).


And a some vintage footage of some safari types getting a shoeing from a bunch of chimps. Chimps are fucked up, I hear the argument about them being a couple of DNA strands away from us. But look at them! They're like an angry man crossed with a dog. And don't get me started on their asses...