Moose crashes through window of Sylvia Fedoruk School in Saskatoon

Officials say 1 student sustained minor injuries, classes continuing as normal.

Jayme Melnyk took this picture of a moose after it smashed through a window at Sylvia Fedoruk School in Saskatoon. (Jayme Melnyk)

Jayme Melnyk says she couldn’t believe her eyes as a moose smashed into a school room located directly across the hallway from her son’s daycare.

Melnyk was dropping her two-year-old son off at an early-learning centre attached to Sylvia Fedoruk School in Saskatoon Thursday morning.

Her son spotted the moose running outside and was excited to see the huge animal at his school.

Suddenly, the moose ran through a large glass window in a community room and eventually slumped to the ground, in shock.

Despite the chaos, Melnyk kept a level head.

“I was very calm about it,” she said. “It didn’t really faze me as much as it probably should have.”

No serious injuries

The moose broke into the room just before 9 a.m. CST as a before-school program was wrapping up for the morning. 

Immediately, Melnyk said the room’s supervisor gathered up the children in the room and got them to safety.

She snapped a picture of the young moose as it lay down near the classroom’s door, dazed from the experience.

Not surprisingly, her two-year-old has been talking about the experience all day long.

“We know the lady who works at the child care centre who was able to get all the kids out,” she said. 

“So, he’s been talking about her a lot and how she was scared of the moose because, obviously, the moose burst through the window.” 

According to Saskatoon Public Schools, the school division that oversees the elementary school, no one was seriously injured. One student sustained minor injuries but did not need medical help. 

Moose tranquilized and released outside city

Ben Denis saw the moose trotting down his alley while working in his home office. He noticed a conservation officer tracking the animal, so he decided to follow behind.

When he arrived at the school, officers told him the moose had smashed inside.

Within about 45 minutes, conservation officers had tranquilized the moose and brought the unconscious animal outside.

Curious, Denis followed the conservation officers outside the city and talked to them as they stopped at a gas station.

He said he was told that the moose was in good condition and would be released outside the city.

“It’s a feel-good story, even if there was a little bit of property damage,” said Denis. 

“I think it’s the type of story we need after everything that’s gone on.”

Saskatoon Public Schools said classes at the school are continuing as normal.

Nov. 3 (UPI) — Workers with a Brazilian highway management company received a surprise when a curious Amazon parrot flew up to investigate a traffic camera.

Footage posted to Twitter by highway management company Arteris Planalto Sul shows the parrot’s head blocking the view of the highway near Curitiba as it investigates the traffic camera.

“We received a special visit,” the post said.

Environmental authorities confirmed the bird was an Amazon parrot, a species listed as endangered in Brazil and Bolivia.

Walrus taking a snooze on a submarine.

Giant in the fog.

Harvest. Deer is okay.

Bison in Yellowstone.

The domesticants.

Yawning leopard.

Pelicans.

Caribou at full gallop.

Photogenic lion.

Orphaned mountain gorilla, Ndakasi, dies in the arms of lifelong caretaker and friend, Andre Bauma.

Ndakazi “took her final breath in the loving arms of her caretaker and lifelong friend, Andre Bauma,” a statement from the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Tuesday.

She died last month after battling a prolonged illness at the park’s Senkwekwe Center where she had lived for more than a decade, the statement added.

Bauma had looked after Ndakasi ever since she was found clinging to her dead mother’s body by national park rangers and taken to the center which is known for taking care of orphaned mountain gorillas, the statement said.

Her mother had been shot by armed militia as part of a series of killings of gorilla families, it added.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Three men face federal charges for stepping into a closed area of Brooks River at Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park to capture up-close photographs of brown bears in the river.

The incident happened in 2018, according to a press release from the U.S District Attorney’s Office of the District of Alaska.

On Aug. 9, 2018, 56-year-old David Engelman of Sandia Park, New Mexico; 54-year-old Ronald J. Engleman II of King Salmon; and 30-year-old Steven Thomas of King Salmon allegedly “left the authorized Brooks Falls viewing platform” and jumped into the Brooks River to approach brown bears “feeding on and in the Brooks River just below the falls,” according to the press release.

The national park is a “safe zone” for the numerous bears that roam the Brooks Camp area, requiring visitors to follow specific rules and regulations to protect any bears or people. The release stated the men created a “hazardous condition” when the they allegedly “came within 50 yards of the brown bears.”

The three men were recently charged with creating a hazardous condition in a closed area and approaching within 50 yards of brown bears. If convicted, they could each face a maximum sentence of six months in prison, a $5,000 fine and a year of probation, according to the release.

The National Park Service is still investigating the case.

These guys are idiots.