Beaver Bites Man To Death In Belarus Attack

Sky.com ^ | 04-11-2013 | Staff

[Red Badger]

The beaver pounced as a man went to take its photograph after spotting the animal on the side of a road during a fishing trip.

A fisherman has been bitten to death by a beaver after trying to take its photograph.

The man was on a fishing trip at Lake Shestakov in Belarus with two friends when they spotted the animal on the side of the road.

He stopped so that he could take a picture but as he approached the beaver it pounced on him, biting him in the thigh.

His friends attempted to stem the flow of blood from the wound but the animal’s bite had severed a main artery and the man, who came from Brest, bled to death.

Beaver attacks are rare and according to experts those animals that do go for humans are usually rabid.

However, they are not unheard off.

[Lady Jag]

THE LONGEST BEAVER DAM IN THE WORLD
The longest beaver dam found with Google Earth to date (October 2 2007) is located in Northern Alberta. The dam has a length of about 850 meters (2790 ft). It has at least existed at this spot for over 25 years as it can be observed on the 1990 LandSat 7 Pseudo Color Imagery Provided by NASA World Wind. However 1975 aerial photo’s show that this dam did not exist in 1975.

This dam was measured with the Google Earth Measuring tool to be about 850 meters in length. It has clearly two or more lodges and is a combination of two original dams. No surface water drainage can be seen. Water moves down the very slight sloping wetland. The ( relative thin layer) of organic material of the wetland works as a sponge . The flow is slow and over a wide area of wetland which requires the building of very long dams.

Of course the dam cannot only been seen from space, it was actually discovered by ‘flying over the earth’ with Google Earth. It is unlikely that this dam would have been discovered without Google Earth and its high resolution image data base, in this case provided by Digital Globe.

[JRios1968]

[a fool in paradise]

Fear of beaver turns men gay.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[ApplegateRanch]

If I’m going to die from a wild beaver attack, it better involve Snu-Snu, rather than teeth.

“Once bit, twice shy”.

[Daffynition]

...or becomes a head warmer!

[Daffynition]

WTH? What do you think is holding up the Hoover Dam?

[JoeProBono]

[null and void]

"I AM THE
BEAVER WHISPERER"

That's good. A beaver shouter would go deaf from the echo...

[Daffynition]

[golux]

Looks like he grabbed him by the kiwis.

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

Is that Merkel with Joan Rivers?

[Night Hides Not]

The poor man’s family has had some real bad luck with animals. It was reported in another publication that a moose bit his sister a few days ago.

[Lady Jag]

[Night Hides Not]

Rabid beaver? Sounds like a NOW convention.

[Daffynition]

LOL

[Hoffer Rand]

Had a neighbor once where this type of thing happened to her husband. He was hunting, set his rifle down against a fence to climb over it. His dog knocked the rifle over, it discharged, caught him in the femoral artery. Bled out in no time. Really sad.

[Lady Jag]

Gotta keep busy.