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Posted on 05/31/2013 5:42:18 AM PDT by SJackson
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.
It was the most serious in a string of beaver attacks on humans in Belarus, as the rodents have turned increasingly aggressive when confronted by humans after wandering near homes, shops and schools.
"The character of the wound was totally shocking for us medical professionals," recalled village doctor Leonty Sulim. "We had never run into anything like this before."
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.
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“The fisherman wanted his photo shot with a beaver”.
Don’t they all?!
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***Guess Sibelius will have to add another code to the ObamaCare regs. Currently, there’s a code for “Turtle Bites” and “Being Hit by a Turtle”, but nothing on “Beaver Bites”...a gross oversight.***
Any mammalogist could have told that fisherman that the most dangerous beaver is a snapping beaver.
Beaver incisors are self sharpening, resulting in what amounts to a biological chainsaw.
Not sure if this is a new incident or re-reporting of an incident some months back.
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Not to worry—Beaver attacks always make interesting copy; and better headlines.
Scary thought. Don’t wild boars tusks self-sharpen as well?
Gasp, derlly, how could you.
They made fun of the tail.
Never make fun of the tail.
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