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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Cal's we Can Review with Ryan cal Callahan.

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Speaker 2: Now Here's Cal. The Pennsylvania Game Commission reported last month

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Speaker 2: that someone has been dropping dog treats stuffed with fishing

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Speaker 2: lures or fish hooks on the Appalachian Trail. The Commission

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Speaker 2: posted images of the booby trapped treats on Facebook and

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Speaker 2: warned dog owners to be careful about what their pup

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Speaker 2: jests while near the Lehigh Gap Nature Center in the

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Speaker 2: eastern portion of the state. Some on social media wondered

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Speaker 2: whether someone inadvertently dropped their fishing bait, but those who

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Speaker 2: found the treats that it looked like they'd been spread

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Speaker 2: out intentionally, and photos showed that most of the hooks

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Speaker 2: were stuffed all the way into the treat, making it

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Speaker 2: impossible to attach a fishing line. Why someone would do

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Speaker 2: such a thing is a question better answered for a

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Speaker 2: psychologist or you know, maybe a priest. We just report

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Speaker 2: the news here at Cal's wee Can Review. We don't

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Speaker 2: dive into the depths of human depravity, but I can

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Speaker 2: tell you this is not the first time someone has

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Speaker 2: tried to kill canines enjoying public spaces with their owners.

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Speaker 2: Back in twenty twenty two, someone dropped ibuprof and laced

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Speaker 2: hot dogs on hiking trails surrounding Pocatello, Idaho. Three dogs

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Speaker 2: got sick and one died from the poison francs and

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Speaker 2: no one was ever convicted. Just last year, in France,

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Speaker 2: four dogs died after eating poisoned meatball someone had strewn

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Speaker 2: along a cross country racetrack. No one was convicted and

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Speaker 2: motive was never discovered, but authorities did say the perpetrator

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Speaker 2: likely used gloves to mix the poison to hide his

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Speaker 2: or her fingerprints. Interesting. I guess the moral of the

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Speaker 2: story is that if you ever spot a meatball in

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Speaker 2: an unlikely place, don't eat it. It's too good to

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Speaker 2: be true. Ooh, a piece of candy. Ooh, a piece

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Speaker 2: of candy. Ooh, a piece of candy. This week we've

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Speaker 2: got CWD, animal attacks and tournament talk. But first I'm

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Speaker 2: going to tell you about my week. In My week

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Speaker 2: started off pretty darn well, got out to the range,

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Speaker 2: got to dial in some new shooting irons from sig

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Speaker 2: sour Giannis Clay and I will be competing in a

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Speaker 2: shooting competition being held here called the sig arc, which

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Speaker 2: is rifle, pistol and archery. It's a great way to

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Speaker 2: get hunting gear. That shooting mindset started well ahead of

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Speaker 2: hunting season. But oh my god, holy cats, it's June

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Speaker 2: and the season doth fast approach. Time to get the

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Speaker 2: swing out of the old beer belly and put that

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Speaker 2: swing back into the shotgun. Get that dog back into

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Speaker 2: training rhythm. Make the garage dial for quick turnarounds, cleaning,

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Speaker 2: organize and fix all the stuff you broke and forgot about.

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Speaker 2: Replace decoys, tent, steaks, peacord, break in new boots, backpacks,

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Speaker 2: plan a few hikes, field test all of it. Weigh

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Speaker 2: your pile and cut out the fat. Finally, get around

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Speaker 2: to improving your backcountry meals. While you're at it, make

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Speaker 2: sure you're converting what's currently in the freezer into your

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Speaker 2: meals right now, and prep for truck camping by cooking ahead.

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Speaker 2: Shoot arrows, shotguns, rifles, make sure your ammo, chokes, spines,

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Speaker 2: focs are dialed in, and shoot some more. Do those

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Speaker 2: broadheads fly like your field points. And on top of that,

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Speaker 2: don't forget to go fishing. We'll get to vehicle maintenance,

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Speaker 2: house repair, improvement, lawn and laundry and all the other

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Speaker 2: adult stuff eventually too, I promise, or just you know,

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Speaker 2: figure it out the night before the first hunt. That

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Speaker 2: can work too, but it's definitely not as good. We'll

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Speaker 2: see you on the other side. Moving on to the

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Speaker 2: CWD desk, a new study by researchers over at the

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Speaker 2: National Institutes of Health has found a quote strong species

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Speaker 2: barrier between humans and deer with CWD. Previous research has

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Speaker 2: suggested this, and many hunters feel no qualms about eating

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Speaker 2: meat from deer that have been infected. However, much of

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Speaker 2: this previous research used animals such as mice, hamsters, and

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Speaker 2: squirrel monkeys as stand ins for humans. This is often

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Speaker 2: how research is done, but it's obviously not the same

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Speaker 2: as trying to infect people with CWD. But human CWD

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Speaker 2: trials are frowned upon, which is why researchers were excited

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Speaker 2: when in twenty nineteen they developed human cerebral organoids. These

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Speaker 2: organoids or small spheres of human brain cells grown from

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Speaker 2: human skin cells. They were first developed to study Crustfield

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Speaker 2: jacob disease and have also been used as models to

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Speaker 2: study zecavirus infection, Alzheimer's disease and down syndrome. In this study,

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Speaker 2: researchers began by infecting healthy human cerebral organoids with Crutzfield

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Speaker 2: Jacob disease to use as a positive control. Then, using

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Speaker 2: organoids for seven days with high concentrations of CWD preons

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Speaker 2: from white tailed deer, mule deer, and elk. The researchers

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Speaker 2: explain why humans have contracted other animal preon diseases like

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Speaker 2: able to resist CWD. Researchers admit that some people might

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Speaker 2: be genetically predisposed to get CWD, and that new strains

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Speaker 2: of CWD could emerge that we are not able to fight. Still,

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Speaker 2: this is the strongest evidence to date that if you

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Speaker 2: eat venison or elk and find out later that it

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Speaker 2: ever evolving science. We may find out something new next

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Speaker 2: week two. A three year legal battle between a Texas

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Speaker 2: dear breeze and the state Parks and Wildlife Department ended

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Speaker 2: last week with the elimination of the ranch's two hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty nine remaining deer. Robert Williams of the RW

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Speaker 2: Trophy Ranch in East Texas had been fighting the state

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Speaker 2: for years in an effort to avoid following protocols that

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Speaker 2: called for infected deer to be euthanized. Williams took his

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Speaker 2: fight all the way to the Texas Supreme Court, which

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Speaker 2: ruled in April that the killings would have to be

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Speaker 2: this controversy had infected a total of two hundred and

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Speaker 2: the last three years. Texas Parks and Wildlife biologists came

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Speaker 2: three hours, and future tests will indicate how many of

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Speaker 2: those deer were currently infected with CWD. Williams told the

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Speaker 2: Huffington Posts that the state agency ruined him, and there

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Speaker 2: are some folks who would agree. Rock and Roll star

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Speaker 2: and Michigan native Teddy Nuggets has been one of Williams's

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Speaker 2: most outspoken defenders, and he and his wife Shamaine took

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Speaker 1: Now we're dealing with the Texas Parks and wildlife that

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Speaker 1: are completely anti Texas, anti private property rights, and they're

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Speaker 1: trying to claim the chronic waste and disease is a

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Speaker 1: that's a lie. They're controlling the food supply and trying

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Speaker 1: to get rid of the reason to have guns and

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Speaker 1: making people dependent on Uncle Sam. It's as an absolute scam.

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Speaker 2: Far be it for me to disagree with the nuge,

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Speaker 2: kind of total depopulation is a common strategy for dealing

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Speaker 2: tuberculosis avian influenza. Captive deer breeders often compare their fight

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Speaker 2: against CWD to sheep farmers, who have largely eradicated another

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Speaker 2: preon disease called scrapy from their herds. But sheep farms

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Speaker 2: didn't eradicate scrapy with selective breeding alone. They killed thousands

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Speaker 2: It seems to me if the deer breeders were real

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Speaker 2: example to the letter. Also, the idea that this is

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Speaker 2: an attack on private property rights runs counter to both

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Speaker 2: Texas state law and the North American model of wildlife

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Speaker 2: conservation and livestock breeding for human consumption in general. For

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Speaker 2: the history of the United States, Captive deer and Texas

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Speaker 2: are considered wild animals because whitetail deer more generally are

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Speaker 2: wild animals. They belong to everyone, not just the people

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Speaker 2: who put them in pens. Captive deer frequently escape and

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Speaker 2: aren't always recovered, and they can spread CEWD through the

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Speaker 2: fence to wild populations. Why should producer Jordan Sillers, who

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Speaker 2: lives an hour down the Highway from RW trophy ranch

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Speaker 2: be concerned about feeding infected CWD deer to his children

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Speaker 2: just because somebody wants to grow huge deer behind a

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Speaker 2: big fence. It's just a little food for thought. Now,

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Speaker 2: there's some contradictory sounding points in here. Okay, I called

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Speaker 2: these captive animals akin to livestock, which they absolutely are,

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Speaker 2: but from a management standpoint in Texas, Texas Parks and

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Speaker 2: Wildlife maintains that they are deer so they can manage

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Speaker 2: situations like this and ideally mitigate the spread of not

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Speaker 2: only CWD but other diseases amongst all these deer that

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Speaker 2: gets shipped around Texas all over the place. The other

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Speaker 2: thing is, you know, we just cover that story about oh,

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Speaker 2: there's a barrier between human consumption, Well that doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: there's necessarily a barrier in perpetuity. That doesn't mean that

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Speaker 2: there's a barrier between deer CWD and that moose, elk

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Speaker 2: deer CWD taking the jump into domestic cattle for instance,

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Speaker 2: threat that you know that's going to shut down our

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Speaker 2: just my two cents. Feel free to write in askcl

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Speaker 2: at the meaeater dot com. Moving on to the animal

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Speaker 2: attack desk, a turkey hunter in Idaho is lucky to

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Speaker 2: a few miles south of Blackfoot. Idaho Fishing Game reports

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Speaker 2: that he stumbled upon the moose in an area of

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Speaker 2: thick vegetation along the Snake River. The hunter shot twice

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Speaker 2: The hunter sustained some bruises but was otherwise unscathed. He

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Speaker 2: ire of a cow. Elk in spring es to Spark, Colorado,

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Speaker 2: elk have attacked two young children the last week. Both

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Speaker 2: hidden among some nearby rocks. Wildlife officials believe the children,

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Speaker 2: one of whom was only four years old, unintentionally wandered

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Speaker 2: each attack. Neither child was seriously injured, though both were

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Speaker 2: briefly taken to the hospital. The elk were hazed out

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Speaker 2: the area warning about aggressive elk elk aren't known for

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Speaker 2: stories every year of a bison attacking a tourist in

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Speaker 2: Yellowstone National Park. The latest incident occurred on June first

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