Animals in the news: today’s roundup

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• Remember the great white shark that the Monterey Bay Aquarium released after 11 days because it wouldn’t eat? She had to be freed again, this time after getting caught in a fishing net.
• A Glendora family came home last night to find a bear playing with a soccer ball in their front yard.
• An Australian animal rights group has launched a national search for a young man who was featured violently beating a kangaroo in an online video.
• A Texas software executive is in court for allegedly allowing hunters to kill 32 of his neighbor’s bison because they roamed onto his Fairplay, Colo., ranch.
• Zoologists have captured a photo of a wild okapi, a relative of the giraffe with zebra-like stripes on its legs and rear. Scientist say the photographs are evidence that the creature, well known to zoo visitors, has survived in the wild in its native Democratic Republic of the Congo despite poaching and civil war.

-- Tony Barboza