Day Of The Animals: Tales Of Man Vs Beast (And Man Suffers)

[lordmongrove]

Girl swimming with dolphins is eaten by shark in Australia. I'd guess a bull shark.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/16-old-girl-killed-shark-154813640.html

 

[hunck]

Another cow trampling, September 2022.

Woman dies after being trampled by herd of cows on holiday as she walks her dog in fields​

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Kathy McKellar, 74, had been walking her dog in Grindleton, Lancashire, during a holiday when she was found trampled to death by cows

The Farmer came across the dog but she wasn’t found until next day.

He said has not had any issues with any of his cows or bulls being aggressive and would sell any showing unusual behaviours or temperament.

He said: “They can be quite protective when they have calves but only in the first few weeks; these calves were around five months old.
“We have two sheepdogs and we have sheep grazing with the cows so they're used to my dogs being around.”

 

[Lord Lucan]

My wife & I are travelling to Singapore in a few weeks time, so in preparation I was browsing the local news there when I came across this story:

'They took our food and pooped in the house': Punggol resident feels 'unsafe' after monkeys open windows and enter home​

They are unwelcomed guests.

A family in Punggol East feels unsafe as monkeys can open windows and enter their second-storey flat.

Stomp contributor Farhan said the first one came in September last year.

He shared a video taken on Feb 3 showing a long-tailed macaque perched on the laundry rack outside peeking through the kitchen window.

"I got a guest monkey outside my window," said the Stomp contributor

In the video, he can be heard trying to make nice with the monkey by saying: "Hello, friend. Eh, say hi."

But the animal scampered away while in the background, four other monkeys can be seen in the area.

The Stomp contributor said monkeys have entered his flat when no one was home.

"They took our food and pooped in the house," he said.

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/t...ggol-resident-feels-unsafe-after-monkeys-open

 

[kamalktk]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1617105599514173441

 

[maximus otter]

Man killed by aggressive pet rooster as daughter shares horror of 'malicious' attack

The daughter of a man killed by his pet rooster has warned of the dangers of aggressive poultry after the bird also attacked her young child.

Jasper Kraus, 67, suffered a heart attack after the bird plunged its spur into his leg, causing him to lose litres of blood.

Daughter Virginia Guinan, 33, says Jasper - a dad-of-two and grandad-of-two - was an experienced animal handler, and while attacks are rare, warned owners to watch out for signs of aggression.

Trainee healthcare assistant Virginia, from south Roscommon, Ireland, said: "You wouldn't think a chicken can be dangerous - but they can be.

"It was a malicious attack, absolutely brutal. There were litres of blood all over the floor when I arrived.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-killed-aggressive-pet-rooster-29226369

maximus otter

 

[lordmongrove]

Shark kills Australian tourist off New Caledonia. Maybe tiger or bull shark.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/shark-kills-59-old-australian-064128927.html

 

[ramonmercado]

Marauding moose. Vid at link.

Alaskan woman trampled by moose while walking dogC

Tracy Hansen was walking her dog in Anchorage, Alaska, when she sensed something coming up behind her. Then a bystander shouted a warning.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-64725512

 

[hunck]

baboons hurl rocks at intruding hikers breaking three of their legs

Three hikers had their legs broken following an attack from angry baboons who rolled rocks over a cliff at them in South Africa.

The group had just reached a narrow ledge at a waterfall in the Banhoek Mountains near Stellenbosch when two of the hikers rappelled down further.

The remaining five however suddenly came under fire from a barrage of rocks from the baboons above, including a 60kg boulder landing between them.

The giant rock exploded on impact and sent razor-sharp rock shards flying like shrapnel, breaking the legs of three hikers who collapsed in agony.

The fourth suffered a flesh wound and the fifth was hit by part of the boulder and nearly knocked over the edge but was saved by his safety harness.

But the hikers' ordeal was far from over as dozens more rocks rained down on them from the baboons above forcing them to shelter in by the cliff face.

One of the hikers despite being in such a remote area managed to make an emergency call for help and the Air Mercy Service helicopter was mobilised.

A team from Wilderness Search and Rescue was on board.

The baboons had moved on so the WSAR paramedics could be winched down and put the most seriously injured victim in a stretcher and winch him to the chopper.

A baboon expert who specialises in rescuing the primates from urban areas said: "Baboons are capable of throwing rocks but they can only throw them underarm.

‘Their shoulder blades are at a different angle to the ribs than in humans and are flat into their side they have to throw underarm but can throw very hard.

“Whether they were deliberately throwing the rocks at the hikers or just dislodging them I guess will never be known but that was a lot of rocks to accidentally dislodge.

‘It takes a lot to accidentally dislodge a 60kg boulder” she said.

 

[Sharon Hill]

baboons hurl rocks at intruding hikers breaking three of their legs

Three hikers had their legs broken following an attack from angry baboons who rolled rocks over a cliff at them in South Africa.

The group had just reached a narrow ledge at a waterfall in the Banhoek Mountains near Stellenbosch when two of the hikers rappelled down further.

The remaining five however suddenly came under fire from a barrage of rocks from the baboons above, including a 60kg boulder landing between them.

The giant rock exploded on impact and sent razor-sharp rock shards flying like shrapnel, breaking the legs of three hikers who collapsed in agony.

The fourth suffered a flesh wound and the fifth was hit by part of the boulder and nearly knocked over the edge but was saved by his safety harness.

But the hikers' ordeal was far from over as dozens more rocks rained down on them from the baboons above forcing them to shelter in by the cliff face.

This happened back in February. The Tabloids picked it up from the WSAR's Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/WSARWester...GY799VwbwwjnJ6TmGfVfhiKbJMC4qRaXbENYDHs1KTVUl

Someone in the comments reported this happened to them back in 2019: In Jan 2019 we were a group of 7 going up Swartboskloof in Jonkershoek, when near the top on a steep section, baboons were rolling multiple large rocks at us. We had to take shelter and it was a traumatic experience for the group at the time.

And someone else said it happened last December:
We we're hiking through duiwelskloof,Banhoek, on the 27th of December and spotted a troup of babboons above us while having lunch.
After lunch we had to traverse over a slab of rock and the babboons started dislodging rocks which rolled down at us. The rocks being dislodged came closer and closer, one shattered and flew a few meters from us at face level.
Clearly worth taking them into consideration rather than just walking past them as we're used to.

So, it's a thing for baboons to assault hikers with rocks.

 

[ramonmercado]

I bet it's not just a black and white situation.

An Ohio man was rushed to the hospital yesterday after his "pet" zebra nearly bit off his arm.

The zebra was highly agitated, aggressively trying to get to the man even after police arrived and blocked the animal from the man with their charger. The animal then "continued to charge at deputies and fire crews, as well as other members of the victim's family" as deputies blew air horns to try to scare it away, according to Yahoo!.

From Yahoo!: ...

https://boingboing.net/2023/03/13/o...after-pet-zebra-nearly-bites-off-his-arm.html

 

[Sharon Hill]

I bet it's not just a black and white situation.

An Ohio man was rushed to the hospital yesterday after his "pet" zebra nearly bit off his arm.

The zebra was highly agitated, aggressively trying to get to the man even after police arrived and blocked the animal from the man with their charger. The animal then "continued to charge at deputies and fire crews, as well as other members of the victim's family" as deputies blew air horns to try to scare it away, according to Yahoo!.

From Yahoo!: ...

https://boingboing.net/2023/03/13/o...after-pet-zebra-nearly-bites-off-his-arm.html

Since the zebra died doing what it was evolutionarily evolved to do, I'd have posted this under Day of the Humans: Tales of beast vs man and man prevails

Zebras are wild animals. People are stupid animals.

 

[uair01]

Sloth bites teen during visit to Michigan pet store, ruining lifelong dream​

SAGINAW TWP, MI — Last month, a Saginaw Township teen girl was about to have a dream realized by interacting with a sloth at a local exotic pet store. “A sloth is her favorite, favorite living creature,” said Christina B. Perez of her daughter’s affection for the animal. The experience was marred when the slow-moving, tree-dwelling mammal bit the girl, delivering two deep puncture wounds to her skin. “It was a strike like a snake,” Perez said. “It wasn’t in slow motion at all. It happened so fast I didn’t even realize it happened.”

More weirdness at the link!

https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-...ichigan-pet-store-ruining-lifelong-dream.html