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[anarckitty]

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.

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.

The fisherman, who has not been named at the request of his family, was driving with friends toward the Shestakovskoye lake, west of the capital, Minsk, when he spotted the beaver along the side of the road and stopped the car. As he tried to grab the animal, it bit him several times.

Article is here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/beaver-kills-fisherman_n_3352353.html


Horrible, but why on earth would someone think it's a good idea to pick up a wild animal???

 

[tekumseh]

This happened nearly 2 months ago. I wonder why it's making the rounds again?

April 11, 2013

 

[anarckitty]

Ahah. My apologies. I need to get better at searching old threads. Could not find one. =)

 

[Baraka in the White House]

Didn't look to me like he tried to grab the animal in the video I saw. He was walked behind it a few paces as he filmed when it suddenly stopped, turned and went Hulkamania on him.