Without natural predators to keep the deer population in balance, the deer population first exploded.
—
Mark VanderSchaaf,
Twin Cities,
18 May 2026
In November, a shark killed a woman and seriously wounded a man at a national park beach on Australia's east coast in a rare instance of the predator attacking two people.
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