BADINGILO and BOMA NATIONAL PARKS, South Sudan (AP) — Seen from the air, they ripple across the landscape — a river of antelope racing across the vast grasslands of South Sudan in what conservationists say is the world’s largest land mammal migration. The country’s first comprehensive aerial wildlife survey, released Tuesday, found about 6 million […]
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Tennessee Zoo Mourns Death of Antelope After He Choked on Banned Item Human Brought In
Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee is mourning the loss of one of their own, a 7-year-old rare African antelope named Lief. A guest at the zoo snuck in a banned item, a squeezable fruit pouch with a plastic cap. Somehow the cap ended up in the antelope’s enclosure, and the curious animal choked on it […]
Antelope at Tennessee zoo chokes to death on plastic snack pouch cap
A “beloved” antelope choked to death on the plastic cap of a snack pouch over the weekend, a Tennessee zoo announced. Lief, a 7-year-old sitatunga antelope, died Saturday, Brights Zoo said on Facebook. The animal choked on the cap of a squeezable fruit sauce pouch that the zoo said is not allowed on its grounds […]
Stabbing at Antelope home leads to 5-hour standoff before suspect surrenders to deputies
A man surrendered to Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies on Friday after he was holed up inside his Antelope home for more than five hours following a reported stabbing that wounded one of his roommates. About 7 a.m., deputies were called to the home in the 3000 block of Scotland Drive for the reported stabbing. Sgt. […]