Crops
Farmer Survives by Biting Crocodile Back
An Australian cattle farmer escaped a crocodile that seized his leg by biting the animal's eyelid.
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Wildlife
Environment
Butterfly Fair at Jahangirnagar University on 24 November
Jahangirnagar University will hold its day-long butterfly fair on 24 November to promote butterfly conservation and public awareness.
Environment
Child Killed in Circus Elephant Attack
A 12-year-old boy was killed by a circus elephant in Nachole, Chapainawabganj.
Bangladesh
Cancer-Stricken Giraffe Dies at Bangabandhu Safari Park
A giraffe suffering from uterine cancer died at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur on 20 October, leaving the park with only two giraffes, both of them female.
Environment
US Man Dies Weeks After Receiving a Pig's Heart
A second American patient to receive a pig's heart in a rare transplant has died, weeks after the operation at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Bangladesh
Injured Fishing Cat Found Lying on Road in Shariatpur
An injured fishing cat found lying on a road in Jajira upazila of Shariatpur was taken home and revived by a local man before the authorities were told.
Crops
Farmers Beat Fishing Cat to Death in Meherpur
Farmers in Meherpur beat to death an endangered fishing cat they found in a paddy field, in what the workers said was an act of curiosity.
Crops
Tree Rats Raid Paddy Fields, Robbing Lakshmipur Farmers of Sleep
Large tree rats are destroying unripe Aman paddy in Lakshmipur, and farmers say neither poison bait nor traditional methods are stopping them.
Livestock
Rescued Elephant Calf Not Feeding Properly, Suffering Malnutrition
An elephant calf abandoned by its herd and sheltered at the Dulahazara safari park in Cox's Bazar is severely malnourished and weak.
Crops
8-Foot Python Rescued From Paddy Field in Panchagarh
An eight-foot python caught in a paddy-field net near the Indian border in Panchagarh was rescued and handed to the forest department.
Environment
Tigers Must Be Protected to Save the Sundarbans: Forest Deputy Minister
Deputy Minister Begum Habibun Nahar said at a meeting in Koyra, Khulna, that tigers must be protected to protect the Sundarbans.
Environment
Three Endangered Langurs Rescued From Private Car, Two Arrested
For the second time in a week, police in Feni have seized endangered langurs from a vehicle on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway and arrested two men.
Bangladesh
Two Young Men Held With 30 Kg of Deer Meat
Forest officials detained two young men with 30 kg of deer meat at Datinakhali, near the Sundarbans in Shyamnagar, Satkhira.