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