From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2009:
Danny Bampton, 9, of St. Charles County, Missouri, was
killed on August 19, 2009 when hit by a car. “Investigators say the
boy was riding with his mother when he saw an injured duck in the
road and asked her whether he could save it. After she pulled the
car over, Danny hopped out and put the duck in a roadside culvert on
the south side of the highway. When he tried to cross back over the
rural, two-lane road to his family’s car, Danny was struck by a
westbound Subaru Legacy driven by Alayna R. Hitz, 18, of
Wentzville. He died at the scene,” wrote Joel Currier of the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. ANIMAL PEOPLE reminds readers that the safe way
to rescue animals from roadways is from the side of the road that the
animals are on, using one’s vehicle to block traffic, with four-way
flashers on.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2009:

Hugo Bear, recalled as “one of our most beloved rescued
dancing bears at the Agra Bear Sanctuary” by cofounders Kartick
Satyanarayan and Geeta Seshamani, died on August 7, 2009.

Emi, 21, a Samatran rhino who was imported to the
Cincinnati zoo in 1995, died on September 5, 2009. Her first of
three calves, Andalas, born in 2001, was the first Sumatran rhino
bred in captivity since 1889.

KM04, a puma blamed for killing 15 bighorn sheep in seven
months in southwestern Arizona, was shot on September 2, 2009 by
state wildlife staff, under pressure from conservationists and
trophy hunters.