Lion Attacks Film Crew Member During Interview at a Home

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Man Surives Near Deadly Shark Attack Off California

(CNN) -- Soon after the great white shark chomped into his torso, Steven Robles thought everything was over.

"I really thought that that might be it. I thought I might be dying," he said.

Instead, the long-distance swimmer is recovering from the wounds -- but might never return to the water. The trauma of the attack is still too vivid.

On Saturday, a 7-foot-long shark near Manhattan Beach, California, became agitated by a fisherman's hook. It apparently took out its frustration on Robles, who was swimming nearby.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/07/us/california-shark-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

March 2013: Man and Woman In Zimbabwe Have Sex in Jungle, Lion Mauls Woman to Death

A romantic encounter in the Zimbabwean bush turned deadly this week when a lion attacked and killed a Kariba woman during a couple’s sex romp. The vicious beast pounced and mauled Sharai Mawera to death, My Zimbabwe reported. The unnamed boyfriend fled naked, the news outlet reported. “The lion came from behind and roared,” a source told the news outlet. “The guy managed to escape before stopping at a (distance) where he witnessed his companion being attacked. He later rushed to the road seeking help.”
Passersby in the lakeshore town near the border with Zambia ignored the naked man’s pleas for help fearing he was mentally ill. Finally taken seriously, wildlife officials responded and fired a single shot to scare off the beast, but the woman was already dead.
“Unfortunately the woman, who was also known as Mai Desire, was mauled to death by the lion but her boyfriend managed to escape naked and he was only wearing a condom,” a source told My Zimbabwe. “The two were having their quality time near Mahombekombec Primary School.”
An arm and a few remnants of a second corpse were later found by rangers hunting for the lions.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sex-romp-turns-deadly-lion-attacks-article-1.1281125

Python Attacks 1 Yr Old, Dad Stops Snake

Video link: http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/python-attacks-toddler-16732049

Snake Appears in Toilet, Bites Man in Penis

A man was rushed to a hospital after a snake bit his penis while he was relieving himself in a toilet, according to hospital officials in Israel.

The man, 35, of northern Israel was bitten on Friday after the snake suddenly appeared from inside the toilet. The man suffered minor injuries.

Magen David Adom rescue workers responded to the scene and took the man to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, where he received medical treatment. An examination revealed that the snake was not poisonous.

The man told emergency workers that this all happened after he went to the bathroom to relieve himself and suddenly felt a strong burning sensation in his penis.

One of the paramedics said the man told him that he has seen the snake and the snake was very small.
According to the paramedic, despite the location of the injury, the man managed to stay calm and even had a laugh with workers at his own expense.

http://www.yourjewishnews.com/2013/07/n28209.html

Hiker photographs bear just before fatal grizzly attack

(CNN) -- A southern California man killed by a grizzly bear in Alaska's backcountry was shooting photos of the animal that killed him just moments before the attack, a National Park Service official said Sunday.

The bear that killed Richard White, 49, was still with his body when rangers found him in Denali National Park on Saturday, the official said.

The San Diego resident had been backpacking alone for three nights when he was mauled to death by the bear, according to a park service statement.

Grizzly bear kills backpacker in Alaska's Denali National Park

Photographs found in his camera revealed that White was watching the bear for at least eight minutes near a river before the attack.

"The bear was generally unaware that he was there until the last couple of shots, then his attention turned," park spokeswoman Maureen McLaughlin said.

The photographs "are not that demonstrative" and show "nothing graphic, or any showing major signs of aggression," McLaughlin said. "We're not sure what happened after the camera was put down."

State troopers, park rangers and wildlife biologists, using the photos to identify the "large male bear," shot and killed the animal as it was still "defending the kill site along the Toklat River as the recovery team attempted to reach White's remains," the park service said.

A necropsy of the bear Saturday night confirmed it was the animal that killed White, the statement said.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/26/us/alaska-bear-attack/index.html

Alaska hunter mauled by bear survives 36 hours in wilderness

(CNN) -- A hunter mauled by a bear in Alaska survived 36 hours in the remote wilderness before rescuers using night-vision goggles found him, the Alaska National Guard said.
The man, who was part of a guided hunting party, was attacked about 35 miles north of Anaktuvuk Pass. Helicopter rescue teams tried to reach the man several times, but had to turn back due to dense fog and weather, the Guard said.
The hunter suffered significant blood loss but was stabilized by a medical professional who happened to be in another hunting group, the Guard said.
"The pararescuemen credit him for saving the man's life. He provided expert care with limited resource for several hours, ultimately stabilizing, warming and rehydrating the victim," Air Force Master Sgt. Armando Soria said.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/18/us/alaska-bear-mauling/index.html

Bear Kills Oil Worker in Canada

(CNN) -- A bear attacked and killed a worker at an oil sands plant in western Canada Wednesday, authorities said.

The attack took place at a Suncor Energy base plant, 200 miles north of Edmonton. The female employee was killed by a mature male black bear in the North Steepbank Mine, described as a "remote part of the main plant," CNN network partner CTV reported.

"We are shocked by this very unusual incident and there are no words to express the tragedy of this situation," said Mark Little, a Suncor executive vice president. "All of us need to focus on personal safety and I would urge everyone to be extremely vigilant in dealing with wildlife."

The company said the woman's name won't be released without the consent of the family. Suncor said is cooperating with "appropriate authorities and will complete a full investigation" into the incident.

Between 1900 and 2009, 63 people were killed in 59 black bear attacks in Canada and the United States, according to a 2011 Journal of Wildlife Management report. The study concludes that as human populations and developments rise, so have bear attacks.

The bear in the Wednesday attack was put down.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/08/world/canada-fatal-bear-attack/index.html

 

Man Pulled Off Kayak in Beaver Attack

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Pit Bulls Nearly Rip Face Off 6 Yr Old Girl, Mom Beats Dogs Off With Bats

Zainabou Drame, 6, had been playing with a group of friends when she wandered away. While the child was alone, two pit bυlls who belong to a neighbor attαcked her.
When the girl’s mother, Tanina Drame, learned of the attαck she grabbed a bat and ran to the scene where she began beαting the pit bυlls in the head with a bat.
“The pit bulls had my grandbaby by the face and they were dragging her up the street,” the girl’s grandfather, Leslie McElrath,  said on Thursday. “My dog (Cappuccino) and her momma beαt those dogs off my baby. That is how she is still alive.”
Even though Cappuccino is a small dog, McElrath says the dog joined the fιght in an effort to save Zainabou.
Although the girl’s life was saved, the pit bυlls had already caused her severe injury.
“They had to basically put her face back on,” McElrath said.

http://naturallymoi.com/2014/06/news/heroic-mom-uses-bat-to-save-daughter-from-vici%ce%bfus-pit-b%cf%85lls/

Neighbor's Dog Mauls Boy's Leg But Boy's Heroic Cat Tackles Dog

Lurking behind a car the video shows a neighbor's dog, caught on three home security cameras. You also see Jeremy Triantafilo riding his bike. The neighbor's dog, Scrappy, spots the boy, sneaks around an SUV and bites the four-year-old in the leg. 

"I got off the bus and the doggy came and bite me," said Jeremy Triantafilo. 

But, moments later the Triantafilo's pet cat, Tara, darts at the dog, chasing it away. 

 

"She really did save him from further injury because who knows what could have happened in another couple seconds," said Roger Triantafilo, Jeremy's father. 

But the dog had done damage, two large bite marks, and Jeremy had to have had ten stitches. 

"My leg is feeling better," said Jeremy Triantafilo. 

Tara was unharmed. 

"We are so thankful it only was what it was," said Erica Triantafilo, Jeremy's mother. 

And, the Triantafilo's say they have Tara to thank for that and luck to thank for the urge that compelled Tara to follow them home from the park six years ago. 

http://www.kerngoldenempire.com/story/d/story/family-our-cat-saved-our-son/88621/ct0Cm9BvF0-XWcBFTbTEIQ

Tiger Rips Up Arm of Oklahoma Animal Worker

Published October 06, 2013
Doctors were trying to save the left arm of a worker at a central Oklahoma animal park Saturday after a tiger attacked her when she stuck her hand into the giant cat's enclosure.
Joe Schreibvogel, owner of Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Park in Wynnewood, told the Associated Press the woman was in surgery Saturday afternoon at an Oklahoma City hospital
"He tore her arm up pretty bad," Schreibvogel said. "Her entire arm was still attached. It was badly, badly damaged."
Co-workers quickly tended to the woman before she was airlifted to the hospital, he said.
"She pulled her own arm out. The tiger didn't maul her. The tiger was in his cage, and she violated his space by sticking her arm into his space," Schreibvogel said, adding that the park has a strict rule against introducing any body part into a wild animal enclosure.

 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/06/tiger-attacks-worker-at-oklahoma-animal-park/

What's Behind Deadly Animal Attacks?

Feb 13, 2014  

Dark reports began circulating in December, after the mutilated body of a 65-year-old man was found in northern India. Since then, nine additional human deaths have been blamed on "Mysterious Queen," the name given to a large Bengal tigress with a taste for human flesh.
The exact identity of the tiger hasn't yet been established — wildlife officials aren't even sure if it's one tiger or two — but that hasn't stopped villagers in India's Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand states from taking extra precautions when venturing outside their homes.
Wildlife attacks like these have been increasing in a few parts of the world, and some experts believe, for a number of reasons, that humans — unaccustomed to being prey — might start appearing on more predators' dinner menus in the future.

The latest tiger-attack victim in India was Ram Charan, a 45-year-old irrigation contractor working near Jim Corbett National Park, a reserve established in 1936 to protect the region's iconic Bengal tigers and other wildlife.
Charan was walking through the forest near his truck when a tiger attacked him, according to news reports. "People rushed to his rescue on hearing his screams," a local wildlife official told the Times of India. "But he was dead by the time they reached him."
The tiger might have attacked a human out of desperation, one local official said. "The animal has started attacking humans, because it is not getting its natural prey," Rupek De, chief wildlife warden of Uttar Pradesh, told the Associated Press. 

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"When I was a boy growing up in Florida during the 1950s, alligators were endangered, and I never saw one outside of a zoo or Everglades National Park," Michael Conover, a wildlife management expert at the Berryman Institute, wrote in a 2008 editorial in the journal Human-Wildlife Conflicts. "Today, alligators are abundant throughout the state."

 Similar success stories with wolves, bears, cougars and other predators have resulted in human-animal encounters that don't always end well for the human. During one deadly week in 2006, three Florida women were killed and partly eaten by alligators in separate incidents.
The month prior to the alligator attacks, a 6-year-old girl in Tennessee was killed by a black bear, which also injured the girl's mother and her 2-year-old brother. As the population of black bears has grown nationwide, a greater number of bear-human conflicts have been reported. [See Photos of the Black Bears' Return] 

http://news.discovery.com/animals/whats-behind-deadly-animal-attacks-140213.htm

12 harrowing tales of wild animal attacks

On Feb. 16, 2009, a loveable chimpanzee named Travis — who had starred in Old Navy commercials — went on a brutal rampage and ripped a Connecticut woman's face off. Such stories of wild animals attacking humans aren't terribly uncommon, though — and in many cases, the animals involved in these incidents end up being put to death. Here are 12 cases of humans befriending wild animals, with wildly alarming consequences.
Carl Wiser loved buffalo. He raised them for years on his Tennessee farm. At the peak he had a herd of about 60 buffalo, but by August 2010 the 64-year-old had just four left — and he was planning to get rid of them.
On Aug. 9, something went horribly awry. Wiser was talking on the phone when he noticed one of his buffalo chasing his horses. When he tried to separate the animals, the buffalo attacked him. His wife heard him screaming and calling her name. She found him semi-conscious with the buffalo standing over him. He later died at the hospital.
On Feb. 16, 2009, Sandra Herold's pet chimpanzee Travis brutally attacked Charla Nash, a woman he knew well. The 200-pound, 14-year-old chimp had been acting "rambunctious" that day, so Herold had given him a dose of the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. As he relentlessly mauled her friend, Herold stabbed him with a chef's knife. Police ultimately shot the animal, and he died in his room in Herold's home in Stamford, Conn. About 15 months after her pet chimp attacked, Herold died alone and friendless of an aortic aneurysm in her Connecticut home at age 72.

http://www.today.com/id/38983157/ns/today-today_pets/t/harrowing-tales-wild-animal-attacks/#.U26n7BYo6Hs

Pit bull kills owner's 4-year-old daughter

Wednesday, March 26, 2014
HOUMA, La. (AP) - March 26, 2014 (WPVI) --  Police say a pit bull fatally attacked a 4-year-old girl who was watching television in a southern Louisiana apartment and injured the girl's mother when the woman pulled her daughter away.
Houma Police Chief Todd Duplantis says that 27-year-old Megan Touchet barricaded herself and her daughter, Mia Derouen, into a bedroom Tuesday evening and called 911. He says she handed her child out a second-floor apartment window to a rescue worker on a balcony.
He said Wednesday that officers shot and killed the dog, which was still being aggressive.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=9480736

Zimbabwe Man Punches Vicious Crocodile to Save His Son

Friday, December 27, 2013
Associated Press
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - December 27, 2013 (WPVI) --  State media in Zimbabwe says a villager fought a crocodile with his bare hands to free his son from its jaws in northeastern rural Mutoko.

The Herald newspaper reported Tafadzwa Kachere and his 11-year-old son Tapiwa were trying to cross a river on Christmas eve when the crocodile attacked the boy. It reported that Kachere jumped onto the crocodile's back and tried to force open its jaws, beating at its head with his fists and poking at its eyes with reeds.
The crocodile released the child and turned on Kachere who wrestled free of its grasp. The newspaper says the child lost a leg and his father's arm was severely gored. Both survived.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=9373648

Hungry Bear Mauls FL Woman in Her Driveway, 5 Bears Put Down

LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) - April 14, 2014 (WPVI) --  After a bear mauled a woman in the driveway of her suburban Florida home, dragging her four feet before she escaped, wildlife officials said Monday that they had killed five of the animals, who had become dangerously accustomed to humans.
It was unclear whether the bear that attacked Terri Frana, 45, on Saturday was one of those killed. DNA and other tests will be done on the five animals - one shot and four euthanized - in an attempt to determine that, officials said. .
Frana, 45, said the bear had her head in its mouth and dragged her about 4 feet toward a wooded area.
"She opened her jaw and clamped down onto my head, and I could just hear her teeth marks," Frana told WFTV-TV (http://bit.ly/1gpJnn7 ).
She managed to escape from the bear's jaw, and then ran inside the house, where she collapsed.

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In December, a woman was attacked by bears while walking her dogs in Longwood, about five miles from Lake Mary. She suffered facial injuries and was hospitalized.  

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=9503903

Man observing alligator in Fla. bitten by snake

Associated Press

Posted on April 12, 2014 at 10:04 PM

Updated Saturday, Apr 12 at 10:06 PM

A man who stepped out of his car in Alligator Alley to view one of the deadly reptiles was bitten by a poisonous snake.
Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue spokesman Mike Jachles said the 29-year-old man from Boynton Beach was bitten on the foot by a water moccasin Saturday evening after he and his girlfriend made a stop to check out an alligator at mile marker 49 on I-75 eastbound. The highway is also known as Alligator Alley.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/national/255050131.html

Costa Rica crocodiles tore man apart

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Lidieth Rojas was walking on the beach near Costa Rica’s Tarcoles River Thursday morning when something that washed ashore in front of her gave her chills.
She thought it could have been a coconut — it was about the right size — but there was something unmistakably human about it. It would take a police investigation and DNA tests to confirm her fears. The mystery object was a human head.
Specifically, it was the head of Omar de Jesus Jiron, a 32-year-old Nicaraguan who two days earlier was viciously ripped apart by the river’s sizeable bask of crocodiles. Despite multiple boat searches by the Red Cross, no other body parts were recovered.

...According to police reports, Jiron and a co-worker were traveling by bus after losing their jobs in construction. The pair had been drinking heavily and was kicked off the bus near the Tarcoles bridge. After reaching the end of the bridge, a heavily intoxicated Jiron decided to take a dip in the river.
What happened next is still a mystery. Some witnesses say Jiron leaped off the top of the bridge, while others say he walked down the side of the bank and stripped off his clothes before lowering himself into the water. By all accounts, Jiron was only able to enjoy several seconds of his swim before he was pulled under the water by at least six crocodiles. Some witnesses say as many as 20 crocs eventually circled Jiron.
Red Cross officials arrived in a boat at the scene shortly after Jiron was attacked, but were unable to pull the man from the reptiles’ jaws.

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According to a study by Costa Rica’s National University, Jiron’s death is the only reported crocodile fatality at the bridge since 1999. According to the Worldwide Crocodilian Attack Database kept by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, there have been at least 34 crocodile attacks in Costa Rica since 1995. 

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/costa-rica/140502/crocodile-eats-nicaraguan-man-tarcoles