■UNITED STATES
New dead dolphin found
Since winter closed in on a family of dolphins that had been living in two New Jersey rivers, many observers felt the animals were living on a prayer. On Saturday, the body of another dead dolphin was spotted in the Navesink River just outside the Middletown home of rocker Jon Bon Jovi. If it’s confirmed to be part of the group of 16 dolphins that had spent half of last year in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers, it would be the sixth to have died. The dead dolphin was the third to surface in the past two weeks.
■AUSTRIA
Eagle snatches handbag
An eagle shocked an elderly woman on Saturday when it swooped down and snatched her handbag, police in the Tyrolean town of Kundl said yesterday. The tamed Bald Eagle was apparently looking for food. Several days earlier, buzzards had hunted after the eagle while it was in the air, and the bird had not returned to its owner, a professional falconer. The 69-year-old woman was walking with her family when the bird of prey robbed her bag, landed nearby and started rummaging through it for food. “She got the shock of her life,” Kundl police officer Lambert Autengruber said. The eagle mistook the brown bag for that of its owner, as that is where its food is normally stored, he said.
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