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Good luck to everybody out there drying out and recovering. For all those groaning  about the “hype” be glad your roof is on, your basement is dry and your trees are upright. Because despite all the advance planning and preparations, many people died during the “epic rainstorm.”

Fake photo of shark swimming in street in flooded Puerto Rico. It has been sourced as a user-submitted photo to Channel 7 in Miami, which broadcast it.

Source photo from a 2005 issue of Africa Geographic.

Hurricane Irene: ‘Photo’ of shark swimming in street is fake
By Sarah Anne Hughes  |  www.washingtonpost.com  |  08/26/2011

Holy moly! A (fake) picture of a shark swimming on a Puerto Rico street! (Reddit) A photo of a shark swimming down a Puerto Rico street flooded by Hurricane Irene has been making the rounds online. It was posted on Reddit, picked up by Web sites and broadcast on a TV station in Miami, which is not surprising. I mean, a shark on the streets! This seems too cool to be true!

That’s because it is.

Google “shark,” and up pops a great photo of a shark stalking a kayak from a 2005 issue of Africa Geographic. Commenters on Reddit, where the photo seems to have originated, quickly noted this and the very real similarities between the two sharks (note the small circular shadow just below the shark’s belly.)

Some sites have since realized their error. Neatorama, for example, has removed its story with the photo called “Thank you, Hurricane Irene: Shark in the street.” We’ve asked Channel 7 in Miami, which broadcast the user-submitted photo, if it plans to inform viewers about its fakeness. We will update this post if we hear back.

This phenomenon is nothing new. After the death of Osama bin Laden, a fake photo of his body circulated on Arab news outlets. When the earthquake hit Japan, photographs of a damaged church started circulating. The church was located in Christchurch, New Zealand.

What’s the lesson here? If you see a picture of a dolphin hanging out in Central Park after Irene moves through the East Coast this weekend, you may want to investigate it further.

Monkey swipes Canon DSLR for self-portraits
Mike Flacy | July 6, 2011 | www.digitaltrends.com

A professional wildlife photographer got quite a surprise when a curious primate took several hundred self portraits with his equipment.

David J. Slater, a native of Gloucestershire, was wandering around Indonesia in a national park when a mischievous black-crested macaque snatched his camera equipment and became enthralled with the reflection in the camera lens, as reported by The Telegraph. Slater shoots wildlife with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Canon EOS 40D, thus the DSLR lens was large enough for a clear reflection.

The macaque shot a couple hundred pictures by the time that Slater was able to recover the equipment. While many of the shots were out of focus, the majority of the pictures showed the monkeys showing off their teeth as it’s likely the first time they had seen their reflections. Slater said that the group of monkeys was initially frightened by the clicking sounds of the camera, but they all eventually returned to check out the gear.

Coming across a group of the black-crested macaques was a rare occurrence, as they are an endangered species and are found only on two islands local to Indonesia. They spend about half their time on the ground and half in the trees, looking for food, socializing and sleeping. They mostly eat fruit, but also enjoy a diet of flowers, insects and eggs. To communicate, the macaque becomes vocal and also has the ability to move their tufts of hair to invoke emotion. The typical life span of the macaque is around 18 years.

Slater said that he followed the monkeys for three days with the help of a local guide without disturbing the group. Slater has worked with a variety of clients on a professional level including BBC Wildlife and many national newspapers.

A leopard attacks a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India, Tuesday, July 19, 2011. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. The forest guard being attacked was injured. Photo: AP / AP

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, a leopard prepares to attack a forest guard, left, at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. INDIA OUT Photo: AP / AP

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, a leopard runs to escape after attacking a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. INDIA OUT

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, a leopard attacks a forest guard as another runs for cover at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. INDIA OUT Photo: AP / AP

Leopard mauls 11 in fierce fight at Indian village
July 21, 2011 | www.greenwichtime.com

KOLKATA, India (AP) — A snarling leopard mauled 11 people in an Indian village and terrorized wildlife officials trying to drive it away before it was tranquilized and died of injuries from the fierce showdown.

Forestry officials were forced to flee, dive for cover and even climb up on a jeep to escape the adult, male leopard’s attacks in West Bengal state.

At one point, the big cat leapt through the air, fangs bared, and tackled a man, clutching him in its giant paws as it knocked him off the wall he was standing on.

The wildlife officials — wearing protective helmets and carrying batons and tranquilizer guns — had hoped to drive the cat into a nearby wildlife sanctuary after it wandered into the village near Siliguri, about 373 miles (600 kilometers) from Kolkata.

But the leopard stood its ground, crouching on a wall, hissing and attacking those who came near.

It injured six villagers, a policeman and four forest guards before being hit with a tranquilizer gun Tuesday. The people are recovering from their injuries, mostly swipes from the cat’s claws.

Forest official Dharma Dev Rai says villagers used knives, stones and batons to beat back the cat.

The cat died within hours after the showdown, and a post mortem is being conducted.

Leopards are protected in India, though more are straying into villages for food.

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