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Orcas relentlessly battered a yacht in a “terrifying” two-hour attack that didn’t end until the $128,680 vessel sunk to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. ... they were not playing at all, they knew exactly what they were doing. They knew the weak points of the boat, and they knew how to sink it... “Their sole intention was to sink the boat ... The five orcas circled the 39-foot sailing boat and took turns smashing it to bits .. in a coordinated assault Powell compared to the carnage of wolves. ... The pod of five first focused on the rudder,...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Details of Minnesota's first wolf hunting and trapping season released Monday didn't please everyone. Mark Johnson, executive director of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, said limiting the season that opens Nov. 3 to 6,000 licenses and 400 wolves is too conservative. "I think deer hunters will be disappointed," Johnson said. Howard Goldman, senior Minnesota director of the Humane Society of the United States, says hunters shouldn't be pursuing wolves. "We don't see any biological reason to hunt and trap wolves at all," Goldman said at a time when officials in Wisconsin, for instance, are looking at the feasibility...