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Fisherman dies as increasingly aggressive beavers attack people in Belarus
Fox News ^ | 5-31-13

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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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: altereddate; beavers; maul; wildlife
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To: SJackson

“The fisherman wanted his photo shot with a beaver”.

Don’t they all?!


21 posted on 05/31/2013 7:06:18 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: HereInTheHeartland
In the good old days they were innocuous.

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22 posted on 05/31/2013 7:14:52 AM PDT by xp38
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To: txrefugee

***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.


23 posted on 05/31/2013 8:00:49 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam is antithetical to, and Islam is irreconcilable with, America. Therefore - Islam Delenda Est)
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To: SJackson

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.


24 posted on 05/31/2013 8:15:53 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: SJackson
Dealing with Beaver
25 posted on 05/31/2013 8:42:31 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: GladesGuru

Scary thought. Don’t wild boars tusks self-sharpen as well?


26 posted on 05/31/2013 5:18:06 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: Lakeshark; Darksheare; null and void; derllak

Gasp, derlly, how could you.


27 posted on 06/01/2013 11:26:18 AM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Borax Queen; Lakeshark; null and void; derllak

They made fun of the tail.
Never make fun of the tail.


28 posted on 06/01/2013 1:40:22 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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