death by wildlife

[Lady Cop]

A British engineer has been killed and his scientist traveling companion is missing after they attempted to cross a crocodile-infested river in India.


Ian Turton, from York, died after disappearing during an excursion on the Cauvery River near Bangalore.

Another man, believed to be Michael Easton, from Holland Park, west London, is still missing. Local authorities are continuing to search the area, the Foreign Office said.

A spokeswoman said: 'We can confirm the death of a British national while on an excursion on the Cauvery River near Bangalore, India. Another British national is still missing.

'The local authorities continue their search of the area. We are providing consular assistance to the families.'

She would not reveal the manner of his death but it is feared they may have been attacked by crocodiles on the river.

The 497-mile Cauvery River runs across three southern Indian states, including Tamil Nadu, where Mr Turton is reported to have been working for Tenneco.

The river is said to be infested with crocodiles, leading to speculation the men could have been attacked as they travelled down it.

An Indian colleague of Mr Turtons at Tenneco filed a police report on Tuesday saying the two men, who were friends had met up at the Lord's Plaza hotel in Bangalore before setting off with a driver at 6am on Saturday.

[Lady Cop]

not really known if convict was still alive.

(CNN) -- A bear ate the corpse of a convicted killer in a wooded area of Canada, according to authorities.

The mauled body of Rory Nelson Wagner, 53, was found in a rural area in southern British Columbia on Wednesday evening, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

Police believe Wagner was already dead in a 1986 Volkswagen Jetta when the black bear broke into the vehicle, ate some parts of him and dragged the rest of the body away.

"The driver's window of the vehicle was down and investigators noted numerous muddy animal prints and scratches on the car," police said.

Officials "discovered the body in the surrounding bush, about 120 meters from the vehicle," police said.

Drug paraphernalia and a bottle of liquor was found in the car. A coroner is conducting an autopsy and toxicology tests.

video report:

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2012/06/...y-bear.ctv

[Lady Cop]

A female keeper was today mauled to death by a pack of eight wolves at a popular Swedish zoo, police said.

The 30-year-old woman had entered the wolf enclosure at Kolmarden park, in the Ostergotland district, alone at about 11am when the deadly incident happened.

It is understood that visitors to the zoo then witnessed the horrific attack.

The zookeeper was a longtime employee at the wildlife park and had worked with the group of wolves since they were born, the zoo said in a statement on its website.

surprising since she was part of their pack.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1y5pOhQaN

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Umm, I don't think she was part of the pack, thats the kind of thinking that gets folks killed by animals. People will never be part of the pack, they may be tolerated for a time, but eventually are seen as dinner or a threat or just a neusance. Wild animals stay wild, people fantisize about being wild.

[Duchess]

I never feel bad for anyone who is killed by an animal in this type of setting. Next!

[Lady Cop]

CARTER COUNTY, MO (KFVS) -
A man has died after he was bitten by a Copperhead snake in Carter County.

Carter County Sheriff Bruce Van Belle says the East Carter ambulance picked up the man somewhere along the Current River. As they were driving, Van Belle says the man had trouble breathing.

The ambulance crew took the man to their facility in Ellisnore and stabilized him.

He was taken to a hospital where he later died.



no details yet, his general health, age, etc.

“There are only two reported deaths from snakes on record in Missouri that we could find,” Briggler said this morning. “One was in 1933 from a timber rattlesnake bite, and there is a death certificate from 1965 on record for a man in the Kansas City area who died from a copperhead bite.”

[Lady Cop]

i'm glad the kid is OK. he was lucky. but you just can't swim in fresh water in florida safely. even the springs aren't safe, i always heard bull gators bellowing and lurking in the reeds.
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A spunky 17-year-old who had his right arm partially torn from his body during a vicious alligator attack, told FoxNews.com that he wants the alligator’s head.

"I'm going to use it for a prosthetic armrest," Kaleb Langdale said in an exclusive interview. “I want his head."

The Florida teen lost his right arm below the elbow Monday night during an alligator attack. He said he survived by offering the 11-foot alligator his arm, and used the skills he learned by watching TV shows like "Swamp People" to survive the brutal attack.

"I'm glad the alligator attacked me, because if it was any of my friends, they probably would have died," he said.

Langdale said the alligator lunged at him as he tried to swim away on the Caloosahatchee River near Moore Haven. He felt the pressure of the alligator clamping down on his arm and knew the alligator had a locked grip when it started to perform a death roll. Bones cracked like twigs and all that remained of his arm was what he described as a dangling tendon.

"I still couldn't break free because I was still attached to the tendon," he said. "Then the gator did another death roll and I kicked my way out of it."

Gary Beck, a friend, said Langdale popped out of the water, screaming "call the paramedics, my arm is gone."

Langdale, who said adrenaline was flowing, managed to get to the other side of the river. His friends called 911 and he stanched the bleeding by squeezing what was left of his arm between his legs. He said when he tried to walk, he fell into a cactus.

"It was there that I found spider webs that I also used to stop the bleeding,” he said. “I kept telling myself that people die when they start hyperventilating. So I kept telling myself to breathe.”

He said rescuers were at the scene within minutes. He was rushed to a Fort Myers hospital, but the arm couldn't be reattached.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino told Fox News the teen's arm was still inside the 11-foot alligator when it was hunted down and killed Monday evening.

Officials say it's alligator mating season and attacks are not uncommon.

Felinda Langdale, the teen’s mother, told FoxNews.com that she was devastated when she found out about the attack. She said her son is staying positive about the situation and said he gets his perseverance from her.

"He could have lost his life," she said. "Half an arm is nothing."

Langdale, meanwhile, said he hopes to track down the alligator trapper and make an arrangement to receive its head.

"You can't do this to me and get away with it," he said.

[Lady Cop]

wow. not exactly wildlife but suicide by tiger? tough way to go.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – A 21-year-old man was found dead Wednesday inside a tiger den at the Copenhagen Zoo after having received a fatal bite to his throat, Danish police said.

Lars Borg, a spokesman for the Copenhagen police, said it was unclear how or why the man had entered the pit, but said investigators could not exclude suicide as a motive. The victim is a foreign national who holds a Danish residence permit, but police would not immediately release his identity or his nationality.

"Everything indicates that the tigers have killed him," Borg said, noting an examination of the body showed the man had been bitten on the thigh, chest, face and throat.

His body was found surrounded by the park's three Siberian tigers by a zookeeper early on Wednesday morning.

Borg said the man appeared to have entered the tiger area from a low wall surrounding the den and then ending up in the moat inside the enclosure. "He has been in the water and the animals must have seen that and attacked him," Borg said.

Investigators were going through CCTV-camera footage to try to establish the man's path inside the park.

Copenhagen Zoo manager Steffen Straede says it is the first time in the zoo's 152-year history that such an incident has occurred, and there were no plans to reassess its security or to put the tigers down.

"If a person really wants to get in (there), we cannot prevent it from happening," he said.

[Lady Cop]

re: post 147 ^





a fortunate young man.

[Lady Cop]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A tiger attacked and killed a female keeper at Cologne zoo on Saturday before being shot dead, a zoo spokesman said.

The gate of the tiger's enclosure had not been properly shut, allowing the big cat to jump on the woman and maul and bite her. She later died of her wounds in hospital.

The 43-year-old member of staff at the zoo was attacked by the tiger and suffered such severe injuries that she died shortly after being taken to hospital.

It seems Altai, an adult male tiger managed to get out through a security tunnel which was not properly secured and into an administration building.

This building was not open to the public, but there was a window open there, through which the big cat could have got out and into the open.

The zoo was evacuated as police moved in, even using a helicopter to ensure they could maintain an overview of what was happening.

Meanwhile zoo director Theo Pagel managed to shoot and kill the tiger through an opening in the administration building roof.

"This is the darkest day of my life," Pagel told reporters afterwards.

“The zoo director has the right weapons for such a task,” a police spokesman said, adding that the police service pistols would not have been much use against a tiger. "Our guns would not have even scratched it," he said.

Founded in 1860, Cologne zoo is one of the oldest in Germany. It has around 10,000 animals of more than 750 species, and welcomes around 1.4 million visitors a year.









this male called Alti, tiger which mauled its keeper

[Lady Cop]

The Denali is so beautiful in every season! my brother's wife goes every year hiking in search of wolves. it's just a paradise of wildlife.


(CNN) -- A lone backpacker was killed in a grizzly bear attack while hiking in Alaska's Denali National Park, the National Park Service said Saturday.

The first sign of trouble came Friday afternoon, when three hikers noticed an abandoned backpack and signs of a struggle -- including torn clothing and blood -- along the Toklat River, the park service said in a news release.

The hikers went back to a rest area, about three miles to the south, and alerted authorities around 5:30 p.m. Friday.

About two and a half hours later, park rangers conducting an aerial search spotted at least one grizzly bear and, after touching down, the unidentified victim's remains.

The body remained at the site Friday night after rangers decided to wait until Saturday morning to remove the remains because of the waning light and the number of bears in the area.

The park service said that, based on "initial evidence," authorities believe a bear attacked the backpacker by the river and dragged his body to a more sheltered, bushy area.

The area of the Denali backcountry where the attack occurred has been closed -- prohibiting all hiking and camping in that area -- "until further notice," the park service said.

About 12 grizzly bears have been living this summer around where Friday's attack occurred, the park said, citing wildlife biologists.

Grizzly bear attacks are not common, though they are not unprecedented. Last September, a grizzly attacked and killed a hunter in northwestern Montana within sight of another hunter. Earlier that year, grizzly bears killed two men in Yellowstone National Park, according to the park's superintendent.

This week's attack is the "first known bear mauling fatality" recorded in Denali National Park and Preserve, according to the park service.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A hiker in Alaska’s Denali National Park photographed a grizzly bear for at least eight minutes before the bear mauled and killed him in the first fatal attack in the park’s history, officials said Saturday.

Investigators have recovered the camera and looked at the photographs, which show the bear grazing and not acting aggressively before the attack, Denali Park Superintendent Paul Anderson said.

The hiker was identified late Saturday as Richard White, 49, of San Diego. He was backpacking alone along the Toklat River on Friday afternoon when he came within 50 yards of the bear, far closer than the quarter-mile of separation required by park rules, officials said.

“They show the bear grazing in the willows, not acting aggressive in any form or manner during that period of time,” Anderson said of the photos.



necropsy showed bear did eat him.



Richard White, a 49-year-old father with a young daughter, had hiked Denali before

[HairOfTheDog]

A 60 year old fisherman in Belarus was killed when he attempted to pick up an alluring beaver along the side of the road.

Always a risky proposition, this time it was fatal.

OSTROMECHEVO, Belarus -- The fisherman wanted his photo shot with a beaver. The beaver had other ideas: It attacked the 60-year-old man with razor-sharp teeth, slicing an artery and causing him to bleed to death.


Belarus Beaver (not the killer, that beaver is still on the loose)

Once hunted nearly to extinction in Europe, beavers have made a comeback as hunting was banned or restricted and new populations were introduced. In Belarus, a former Soviet nation between Russia and Poland, the beaver population has tripled in the past decade to an estimated 80,000, according to wildlife experts. That has caused beavers increasingly to wander into populated areas, creating more grounds for conflict.

More here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29...ostpopular

[username]

Killer beaver on the loose!!!

[Duchess]

That's not the first killer beaver I've read about in the past couple of months.

[username]

That's not the first killer beaver I've read about in the past couple of months.

[Cynical Ninja]

Wild animals are not domesticated pets.

What part of fucking “wild” do these people not get?

Domesticated pets bite sometimes what do people expect wild animals will do? I think they've watched too many disney films.

[HairOfTheDog]

Lion Eyes


^ The warning signs at park entry and posted throughout the grounds

A 22-year-old American woman was dragged to her death and another person seriously injured after being pulled through their car window by a lion in a safari park in South Africa.

The two tourists were reportedly travelling with their windows open when the lion got inside in the third big cat attack at the park in just four months.


^ The lion eyes the inside of the car

It is believed that the lion jumped through the window, bit the woman, and a man was injured trying to pull the lion off, although the park are still trying to piece together the exact sequence of events.

They have now identified the lion responsible for the attack and confirmed that they've put her in a separate enclosure but say there are no plans as yet to destroy the animal. (HOTD: good, it's not the cat' fault.)

It's the third big cat attack in the park in the Honeydew area of Johannesburg in four months, reports ENCA. An Australian tourist, Brendan Smith, from Perth, was attacked by a lion in in March and two days after that, a 13-year-old boy was attacked by a cheetah.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z3bpvYDyz9
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I'm sorry these people were killed and hurt. But, seriously, how much clearer do the the warning signs need to be?

[Duchess]

I rarely feel sorry for those killed by wildlife. Their own stupidity gets them killed. A man was stabbed to death over the weekend by a swordfish, he had jumped into the water with it.

[HairOfTheDog]

Stabbed to death by a swordfish -- I bet there were signs around the water warning people to stay out too.

It really is death by stupidity.

I was happy to see that the animal wasn't being put down in the lion attack case.

[HairOfTheDog]

I rarely feel sorry for those killed by wildlife. Their own stupidity gets them killed. A man was stabbed to death over the weekend by a swordfish, he had jumped into the water with it.

I was picturing one of those knuckleheads at water parks and zoos who try to mix with the animals and get hurt or killed.

I just saw the story and realize the dead guy was a fisherman in Hawaii. The swordfish was six feet long, with three feet of it being bill.



Pretty menacing creature to rile up.