Animal Attack
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Great Books about ANIMAL ATTACKS:
~Man-Eaters
~Attacked!
~American Man-killers
~Mountain Lion Alert

Books on INSECTS:
~Bugs in 3-D
~Guide to Insects
~Encyclopedia of Insects
~An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
~Butterflies Through Binoculars

Great Books about BABOONS:
~Foraging for Survival: ~Yearling Baboons in Africa

More on Wild Animals:
~Animal Underworld: ~Inside America's Black ~Market for Rare and Exotic Species
~Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife
~Death in Yellowstone
~Wildlife (photography)

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September 11, 2000

MAPUTO, Mozambique (Reuters) - Swarms of locusts are devastating crops in Mozambique's southern province of Inhambane, as it struggles to recover from floods earlier this year, agricultural authorities said Monday.

Antonio Limbau, head of the local agricultural department, said teams had been deployed with large quantities of pesticides to eliminate locusts that had invaded about 400,000 of land.

Calling the situation critical, Limbau said the locusts were destroying cassava, a staple in the poor southern African country.

"Now we are involved in a fight to eliminate them. So far we have sent large quantities of pesticides and our team there seems to be getting the situation under control," he said.

Local people said their crops were also being threatened by troops of baboons and wild boars and they wanted the government to give them guns to kill the animals.

Provincial governor Aires Aly promised to deal with the problem but ruled out shooting the animals.

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