Showing posts with label beaver. Show all posts
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Jun 8, 2013

Attack of the Beavers ... the Dragons ...the HEAT

A fisherman in Belarus was bitten to death by a beaver, and all he was doing was trying to take its picture, Sky News reports. The man spotted the beaver while fishing with friends at Lake Shestakov, but as he approached to take a photograph, the beaver bit him on the thigh. The animal managed to sever an artery, and his friends couldn't stop the blood flow.



about 65 pounds and stand about a meter (three feet) high. Officials have responded to some calls by sending out crews to drive away the animals, often by spraying them with water from a fire-hose.


In 2003, dairy cattle breeders in Belarus told of a large beaver attacking a farm manager who tried to shoo it out of a barn. A female farmhand rushed to help him, but they both were bitten by the animal, 




Earlier this week a video was posted on YouTube showing a recent beaver scare in the Tver region northwest of Moscow.
A rabid beaver bit a swimmer at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on Thursday afternoon.
The swimmer was bitten in the Delaware River, just south of the Eshback boat launch, National Park Service Superintendent John Donahue reported in a press release Friday. The beaver subsequently tested positive for rabies.


A rabid beaver that attacked a Boy Scout leader swimming in the Delaware River was killed after Scouts in the troop pelted it with rocks.

I thought it was a giant carp fish," he told the paper.After initially throwing the animal from his body, it returned to continue the attack, biting Brousseau in the leg, buttocks, arm, hand and torso before he managed to grab it and hold its jaw closed.Brousseau threw the beaver ashore while Scouts helped him out of the water. After being momentarily stunned, the beaver began attacking a pool noodle.At that point, the Scouts stepped in to put down the animal.



a Komodo dragon "sunk its teeth into" an 83-year-old Indonesian woman on Tuesday -- but she was able to fend it off.

This isn't the first time someone has been the victim of a Komodo dragon attack in Indonesia. Two park employees were reportedly attacked by one of the animals last February.




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