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BIRTH DRAMA
Rinku Debu Rai (or Ray), 30 (or 28), gave birth in a train lavatory ineastern India. The newborn boy fell through the chute onto the tracks.Mrs Rai leapt from the West Bengal Express train and ran back along thetracks. Her husband, Bhola, pulled the emergency stop cord. He and acrowd of passengers discovered the young woman sitting beside thetracks cradling her unharmed child. In 2008, a newborn girl similarlysurvived a fall from a train lavatory in Gujarat. D.Telegraph, 8 Oct;Independent, 9 Oct 2009.
TITS EATING BATS
Ornithologists were surprised to observe great tits killing and eatingpipistrelle bats in a Hungarian cave.

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