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

The multi coloured Malabar giant squirrel of India

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A large, flightless cassowary kills its owner on his property near Gainesville [Florida]. The bird native to Australia and New Guinea killed the man when it attacked him after he fell, authorities said Saturday.
The Alachua County Fire Rescue Department told the Gainesville Sun that a cassowary killed the man Friday, likely using its long claws. The victim, whose name was not released, was apparently breeding the birds, state wildlife officials said.


https://floridadailypost.com/cassowary-kills-owner-property-gainesville/
 
A large, flightless cassowary kills its owner on his property near Gainesville [Florida]. The bird native to Australia and New Guinea killed the man when it attacked him after he fell, authorities said Saturday.
The Alachua County Fire Rescue Department told the Gainesville Sun that a cassowary killed the man Friday, likely using its long claws. The victim, whose name was not released, was apparently breeding the birds, state wildlife officials said.


https://floridadailypost.com/cassowary-kills-owner-property-gainesville/

Don't ever fuck with a cassowary. They'll try to disembowel you with a swift drop kick or two if you piss them off or threaten their territory.
 
Dinosaurs are dangerous. Do not feed.

It seems like only cassowaries, ostriches (and a chicken) are the only birds that have been documented to kill people. (Eagles may have killed children, not altogether clear. But this was an adult man.) https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/how-dangerous-are-cassowaries-really/ The link provides info that most attacks by cassowaries were associated with being fed by humans.
The only bird I'm embarrassed to admit to have been frightened of was a chicken cockerel ..

My Dad kept various livestock as a hobby when he wasn't running the company he owned. I went to visit my parents when I would have been about 20, my Mum half laughingly mentioned a cockerel that had decided to Alpha dominate the entire property including aggressively chasing my then very young niece and nephew about.

I stepped outside one day and the bastard spotted me from about half a football pitch distance away and charged over at me trying to peck me to death .. I would have given it a kicking but I was more scared of my Dad and killing one of his beasts so it stalked me for a good five minutes. I even tried to hide behind a wall but this thing was more relentless than Michael Myers. I ended up grabbing a dustbin lid to use as a shield and shouting and thrashing about but it was out for blood.

My Dad grabbed it the next day, used his knee to wedge it into our front gate and broke its neck.
 
The only bird I'm embarrassed to admit to have been frightened of was a chicken cockerel ..

...I even tried to hide behind a wall but this thing was more relentless than Michael Myers. I ended up grabbing a dustbin lid to use as a shield and shouting and thrashing about but it was out for blood.

My Dad grabbed it the next day, used his knee to wedge it into our front gate and broke its neck.

:wide: Whoa.
 
:wide: Whoa.
Not really .. it wasn't paying any rent, had two wives, was being fed and housed in a luxury surrounding, had the freedom to attack a 3 and 5 year old kid not including the rest of us and still didn't think that was enough. My parent's probably ate him afterwards with some cranberry sauce. Fuck him.
 
Lucky pooch but how did he get there?

A dog discovered some 220km (135 miles) off the coast of Thailand has been rescued by a team of oil rig workers after the exhausted pooch was spotted paddling near a drilling platform.

The brown aspin swam towards the workers when they called out to him last Friday afternoon. He was then pulled to safety.

It is not clear how the dog became stranded so far out at sea. Some reports suggest he may have fallen from a fishing trawler.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47940239
 
Another case of a non-domesticated captive animal killing its owner.

Pet deer kills man, injures wife in attack north of Melbourne

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/a...an-injures-woman-in-attack-north-of-melbourne

"In the nine years to 2017, Australia has not logged any deaths directly caused by deer, although 77 deaths were linked to cows and horses"

In the US, deer kill people more frequently via car collisions.
 
Eeeeek! Catastrophe avoided!

A lost kitten was found hiding in a sofa as it was about to be incinerated at a waste recycling centre.

The cat "poked his head up out of the cushions" while heavy machinery was moving the sofa on Wednesday, Slough Borough Council said. Owner Lauren Jones was reunited with her pet after a council appeal. She said the six-month-old kitten, named Tux, was missing for 11 days after the unwanted sofa was collected from her home. Ms Jones said Tux had apparently survived for six days without food or water in a van, before the furniture was taken on Friday to the Chalvey waste and recycling centre.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-47980195
 
Strange ‘unicorn’ sheep saved from death by two cases of beer


When a South Australian man laid eyes on Joey the “unicorn” sheep he knew he couldn’t let such a rare animal end up on someone’s dinner plate.
Michael Foster is a stock agent but in all his years being around sheep he had never seen anything like Joey, he told Seven.
The unusual sheep has a horn growing from the middle of his head, making him look like a unicorn.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/...r/news-story/0dc38b4bcf13a646aa56f42d13b809b9
 
Reminds me of Mankowitz 's A Kid for Two Farthings. Book and then film starring Diana Dors.

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This is no stool pigeon.

A parrot has been taken into custody in northern Brazil following a police raid targeting crack dealers.

According to reports in the Brazilian press, the bird had been taught to alert criminals to police operations in Vila Irmã Dulce, a low-income community in the sun-scorched capital of Piauí state, by shouting: “Mum, the police!”

The parrot, who has not been named, was seized on Monday afternoon when officers swooped on a drug den run by a local couple.

“He must have been trained for this,” one officer involved in the operation said of the two-winged wrongdoer. “As soon as the police got close he started shouting.”

A Brazilian journalist who came face to face with the imprisoned parrot on Tuesday described it as a “super obedient” creature – albeit one that had kept its beak firmly shut after being “arrested”.

“So far it hasn’t made a sound … completely silent,” the reporter said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ookout-for-dealers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet
 
Freddy the parrot makes it back to the zoo after being shot, stolen & bitten by a snake

An Amazonian parrot called Freddy Krueger has made headlines in Brazil after managing to find its way back to the zoo from which it was stolen while recovering from a four-year nightmare that saw it shot in a gun battle, abducted by armed thieves and bitten by a snake.

The turquoise-fronted Amazon parrot – whose Elm Street-inspired moniker stems from its bullet-disfigured face – was pilfered from a zoo in the southern city of Cascavel on the night of 16 April.

Krueger was first brought to the zoo about four years ago, having been severely injured in a shoot-out between police and gangsters during a raid on the drug den where he had lived with his villain owner.

“In the shoot-out, [Krueger] was hit in the upper-beak … blinded and suffered burns to the feathers that grow between the eyes,” the Folha de São Paulo reported.

Krueger’s ordeal was far from over. Earlier this month, the parrot was reportedly bitten on the leg by a snake – thankfully of the non-venomous variety.

Krueger bled profusely but survived, only to be stolen days later when three armed raiders burst into Cascavel’s zoo, over-powered its security guard and made off with two parrots and a cylinder of gas.

Two days later, however, Krueger returned, discovered by zoo staff at the foot of a pine tree beside his cage.

The details of Krueger’s comeback remain murky, although drops of blood found near his former abode have fuelled speculation that the notoriously aggressive parrot bit his way out.

“He’s a bit of a wild one,” Ilair Dettoni, the zoo’s vet, was quoted as saying.
 
Singer Pete Doherty has been attacked by Sonic the Hedgehog:
Horrific report

Something like that, anyway. Didn't realise a hedgehog spine could do so much damage.
 
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