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Leopard with head stuck in plastic container rescued
Over 30 people in Maharashtra’s Thane district joined hands to rescue a leopard cub which was spotted with its head stuck inside a plastic container.
The search and rescue operation took about 48 hours to complete. According to news reports, the leopard cub, which is around a year old, had put its head inside the container to drink water and was unable to remove it.
The cub was spotted running around in distress, a forest department official said on Tuesday.
Local animal welfare charities had appealed for more information on the leopard after footage of the big cat running around with its head stuck in the plastic container went viral.
The video was taken by tourists who spotted the leopard desperately trying to free itself while passing near Badlapur on Sunday night.
As footage of the leopard went viral on local WhatsApp groups, officials from the forest department launched a search operation to track down the animal.
After two days spent without food or water, the cub was in a severely dehydrated state. It was moved to a rescue centre for treatment and released once it got better. -ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
