By Dorotha Schaefer

Today’s news was full of items concerning wild animals behaving in unusual ways. Enough to scare a person indeed.

Four brown bears had to be tackled and caged because they were running loose. A huge panda was brought down from a tree where it was seeking freedom, a vicious tiger escaped its cage and took the work of many to put him back in. And in the ocean, where water was only 18 inches deep, a hungry shark grabbed a little girl playing there when her mother was right beside her.

All incidents ended happily. Maybe the weather is at fault?

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