I have mixed feelings about this story & others like it...It's certainly awful that people die & it must be the scariest shit ever to be attacked but, they are in the bear's home, so to speak and I think it's chance they all take when they choose to hike & camp in the wild.
I have similiar feelings when I read about animal trainers being attacked & killed. People shouldn't be surprised when that happens. These are wild animals after all.
I don't have mixed feelings about it at all. Why people are shocked when animals act like animals is beyond me. I pretty much hate animal training and animal captivity (unless it's for injured animals or animals that just can't live in the wild or to perpetuate a species). The argument is caged/show animals are good for education blah, blah, blah. I don't buy it. For the most part, they're used for making money/entertainment.
A Zimbabwean was has been killed by a pride of lions while he was showering in a camp in the country's north. evidently lions have been killing villagers, but the mainstream press doesn't bother reporting it. at least not here.
03 Nov 2010
The man was attacked while using an outside shower at a fishing camp near Mana Pools National Park, Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwean Conservation Task Force told German news agency DPA.
The area, located on the Zambesi River, is popular with hunters, most of whom stay in basic camps that offer little protection against attack by wild animals.
The attack is the latest in a string of lion attacks in the area, Mr Rodrigues said.
Eight villagers were killed in a spate of lion attacks over a period of about two months this year, he said. Those attacks only stopped when a pride of lions was killed.
The dead man, a tourist, was named as Pete Evershed by the iAfrica website.
The site said that he had been attacked by four or five lions and his wife, who witnessed the attack, could do nothing to save him.
Locals have claimed that lions in the area were being lured into camps with meat by tour operators.
Conservationists say the high level of wildlife poaching in Zimbabwe is robbing predators, such as lions, of food and making animals more aggressive.
the baby is still alive at this writing. but critical. it's really shocking and unusual, but it has not been determined so far if they were wild or pets. it reminds me of the urban fox attacks on babies in England this past year.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Newton County GA. Sheriff’s deputies are trying to figure out exactly how two raccoons got inside a home to attack a 9-month old baby that was sleeping in a crib in the same room as its mother. The baby is in critical condition in an Atlanta hospital; she has to be tested for rabies, WSB Radio is reporting.
Deputies went to the Brook Hollow Way home around 4 a.m. Wednesday after the mother called 911 to say that her little girl had been bitten by a pair of raccoons, Lt. Tyrone Oliver said.
The baby, who had been bitten severely on her head and other parts of her body, was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, where she remains in critical condition, Oliver said.
The raccoons were outside the family’s house when deputies arrived, Oliver said. One became aggressive and was shot twice by a deputy, Oliver said. That raccoon ran away, and authorities do not know whether it was rabid, authorities told WSB Radio.
The other raccoon tested negative for rabies, WSB Radio said.
Oliver said Wednesday’s case is an isolated incident.
“It’s very disturbing,” he told the AJC. “It my 12 years here, I never came across a case of a 9-month-old, sleeping in her crib, in the room with her mother, and then being attacked. It’s very sad.”
Oliver said deputies are investigating whether the family was keeping them in the home and treating them as pets.
“We’re looking into that and determining whether that’s true,” he said.
Charges are pending, if that is the case, he said.
(CNN) -- A renowned South African whitewater guide and outdoorsman was apparently pulled from his kayak by a crocodile in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is presumed dead, expedition sponsor Eddie Bauer said.
Hendrik Coetzee, 35, and two American kayakers, Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic, were on the Lukuga River when the incident occurred Tuesday, the clothing and outdoor gear company said on its "Born Out There" blog.
Stookesberry and Korbulic were able to paddle to safety and were assisted by the International Rescue Committee, the website said.
"The mission for the Africa kayak expedition was to run and document the unexplored whitewater of the region, while focusing on the people and clean water crisis in Central Africa," Eddie Bauer said.
"We are saddened by the tragic accident and express our deepest sympathies to Hendri's family and friends. We would like to thank the IRC and Solidarites International, who continue to provide assistance and support to the team."
Coetzee, known as Hendri, last posted an entry on his "The Great White Explorer" blog on November 26. In it, he described the team's paddle through a challenging and beautiful stretch of river in the region.
"As hard, warm drops trashed at our little selves and a pair of goats, we stood precariously on a unknown slope deep in the heart of Africa, for once my mind and heart agreed, I would never live a better day," Coetzee wrote.
Stookesberry, in a dispatch published November 1 on Outside magazine's website, said team leader Coetzee offered safety advice.
"Stay out of eddies ... especially the small BS ones because there are three-ton hippos that will bite you in half," Coetzee said, according to Stookesberry, an extreme kayaer. "Stay off the banks because the crocs are having a bake and might fancy you for lunch. Basically, stay close behind me and follow my lead. Any questions?"
According to Outside, Coetzee gained prominence after he led the first source-to-sea expedition of the Nile River, in 2004. He later returned and soloed the infamous Murchison Falls section of the Nile in Uganda.
Mr. Coetzee’s body has not been recovered. The stretch of river where the trio was traveling is notoriously dangerous because of its whitewater, and numerous crocodiles and hippos.
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
An effing kayak, wtf was he thinking, that is no protection at all, as evident to what happened! Some gators are longer then the kayak itself, and weigh in over 1000 lbs. He made himself into "bait"!
Carsman: Loves Living Large Home is where you're treated the best, but complain the most! Life is short, make the most of it, get outta here!
people had been told not to get out of the bus. he should have called Triple A.
Tiger kills bus driver in China
A tour bus driver was mauled to death by a tiger at a breeding center in northeast China this week after he got out of his vehicle to check on a mechanical problem, state media reported on Thursday.
Jin Shijun was attacked by a Siberian tiger and dragged off to a wooded area, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
Jin had died by the time other people were able to drive off the animal in the Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Centre in Heilongjiang province's Hailin city, it said.
China says it has nearly 6,000 endangered tigers in captivity, but just 50 to 60 living in the wild in its northeast, including about 20 Siberian tigers.
In the 1980s, China set up tiger farms to try to preserve the big cats, intending to release some into the wild.
But the farms have come under the international spotlight, with some conservation groups saying they use the cats for their body parts, while media reports have exposed poor conditions at zoos and animal parks.
oh God. not wildlife, a pet. but some pets are wild nomatter what.
GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. -- A 4-month-old boy had seven of his fingers gnawed off by a pet ferret in Grain Valley.
Police and firefighters responded to a home in the 200 block of Young Street Monday morning after an animal bite call. Grain Valley police Chief Aaron Ambrose said it was much worse.
"Upon further investigating, they learned that the infant's fingers had been taken off by the family's pet ferret," Ambrose said.
The police report said the boy was in a rocker when his parents fell asleep, one parent in the bedroom, the other in the same room the bites occurred. The ferret bit off all but the boy's two thumbs and one pinky, the report said.
"I was just devastated for the baby. I was devastated for the ferret. I was just, I'm shocked, quite honestly. Because that is not normal ferret behavior," said Sharon Cannon, director of the Kansas City Ferret Hotline, a rescue and adoption group for the animal.
Cannon said it's wrong to assume the animal just snapped. She said it needs motivation to do something and it often times responds in the manner in which it's being treated.
"The ferret became an animal, because they were forced into that situation, absolutely. HEY NUTJOB, THE FERRET IS AN ANIMAL! The ferret didn't go crazy," Cannon said.
The child's father killed the ferret after the attack. It's now being tested for any diseases it may have. An investigation is also underway by Grain Valley police, who said they will consult with the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office to see if any charges will be filed as a result of the incident.
HAMMOND TOWNSHIP, Maine — A Limerick man died Friday afternoon when his snowmobile struck a bull moose on a snowmobile trail west of Houlton.
Leon Botting Sr., 51, had apparently been traveling at a high rate of speed when the approximately 2 p.m. collision occurred on Shaw Camp Trail, according to a Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife press release.
When Botting’s friends Brian Nickerson, 53, of Houlton and Mike Britton, 40, of New Limerick, who had been snowmobiling ahead of Botting on the trail, discovered Botting was not behind them, they went back to find him, according to Sgt. Dan Menard who investigated the accident.
Both Botting and the moose were thrown off the trail and both died, according to the press release.
Menard said Saturday that wardens respond to one or two moose-snowmobile accidents each winter. Snowmobilers should be wary while on the trails, especially if they see lots of animals tracks in an area because that means the animals are staying in that location, especially if the snow is deep, he said.
“If you’re looking around and you see tracks in the daytime, then they are probably not very far from that location,” he noted.
Animals do use the snowmobile trails to travel on because it’s easier walking or they use them to avoid predators, Menard said. The moose came across the trail and Botting was unable to stop because of his alleged high speed, he said. Menard said the moderately sized moose weighed 500 to 700 pounds.
“‘You just have to remember you don’t have any protection [on a snowmobile]. It’s not like a car, you don’t have a safety bag or an air bag, all you have is a helmet, and that helmet isn’t going to protect when you’re going too fast,” Menard said. Botting was wearing a helmet, he said.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – Police in East Ridge, Tenn., on Monday are investigating the death of a 26-year-old man who was bitten while attempting to determine the sex of a poisonous copperhead snake.
Wade Westbrook was bitten just above the right elbow Saturday night. Firefighters and paramedics were summoned to the scene, where they attempted CPR, but the man was pronounced dead on arrival at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, East Ridge police spokesman Erik Hopkins said on Monday.
A friend reportedly had taken the snake to Westbrook's house in order to have him determine the sex, and while Westbrook was doing this he was bitten fatally.
"We have a general idea of what occurred, but the investigators are trying to piece it together," Hopkins said. State wildlife officers are also investigating.
He said the death is being treated as an accident. East Ridge is just outside of Chattanooga in the southern part of the state.
The copperhead is a poisonous snake common in the southern United States. A copperhead bite can be extremely painful but is not usually fatal.
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
christ, now Dick will be in here thinking you're referring to him.
Nah. That cock is a winner! The only similarity between the two is that Dick probably has to tie a knife onto his to get a slice.
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
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well, not wildlife, but serves the guy right. 