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Five Trampled To Death By Elephants In Bangladesh
Chittagong (AFP) Oct 19, 2006 Five people including two children have been trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants who attacked their home in dense forest in southeastern Bangladesh, police said Thursday. The elephants attacked two houses on a hill-top late Wednesday in the forest of Banshkhali, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of the city of Chitttagong, said local police chief Jahirul Islam. Three women and two children died although male members of the family survived, he said. Elephants frequently damage property and crops in northeastern India and Bangladesh where loss of their natural habitat due to population encroachment brings them into conflict with humans. According to a recent survey, at least 200 people in Bangladesh have been killed by elephants since 1996. Three-quarters of the attacks took place in the forest areas of the Chittagong hill tracts, with most of the others recorded in the northern hill areas of Mymensingh. The study found that there were around 800 elephants, including 350 wild ones, left in the country. Bangladesh, which has a population of 144 million, is one of the world's most densely populated countries with about 1,000 people per square kilometre.
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Earliest Fungi May Have Found Multiple Solutions To Propagation On Land
Durham NC (SPX) Oct 19, 2006In the latest installment of a major international effort to probe the origins of species, a team of scientists has reconstructed the early evolution of fungi, the biological kingdom now believed to be animals' closest relatives. In a report published Oct. 19 in the journal Nature, the researchers outlined evidence that the ancestors of mushrooms, lichens and various other fungi may have lost their original wiggling taillike "flagellae" on several different occasions as they evolved from water to land environments while branching off from animals in the process. |
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