Beaver kills man, A beaver killed a man in a vicious roadside attack by biting him in the thigh, severing a main artery, and causing a fatal blood flow that even the man’s two friends were not able to stop.
Unaware that beavers are not just cute little herbivores and dam builders but that a beaver’s teeth have the power to cut down a tree or kill a person, a man made the mistake of approaching a beaver too closely, reported Sky News on April 11, 2013.
The man who was killed by the beaver was a fisherman who was on a fishing trip with his two friends at Lake Shestakov in Belarus in Eastern Europe.
While driving on the road, the three friends spotted the beaver on the roadside and stopped to take a photograph of the cute little animal.
In order to take a close-up picture, the man approached the beaver which reacted by pouncing on him and biting him in the thigh.
Despite the friends’ attempt to stop the bleeding, they were unable to save the man’s life.
While beavers look and act cute, they will, as any wild animal, attack someone in order to defend themselves.
Most importantly, however, beavers maintain and defend their territories against intruders and are extremely intolerant towards intruders.
Eurasian beavers, as in the fisherman’s case, do not only mark their colony with a scent but also feeding sites, resting sites, and trails.
According to The Journal of Chemical Ecology, “scent marking apparently plays an important role in territory defense of the Eurasian beaver.”
Since beavers have poor eyesight, they have a keen sense of hearing, smell, and touch.
While beaver attacks on humans are supposed to be uncommon, it is important to remember that a beaver can hear and smell someone before a beaver can see a person and that a beaver’s bite can turn into a deadly encounter.
Unaware that beavers are not just cute little herbivores and dam builders but that a beaver’s teeth have the power to cut down a tree or kill a person, a man made the mistake of approaching a beaver too closely, reported Sky News on April 11, 2013.
The man who was killed by the beaver was a fisherman who was on a fishing trip with his two friends at Lake Shestakov in Belarus in Eastern Europe.
While driving on the road, the three friends spotted the beaver on the roadside and stopped to take a photograph of the cute little animal.
In order to take a close-up picture, the man approached the beaver which reacted by pouncing on him and biting him in the thigh.
Despite the friends’ attempt to stop the bleeding, they were unable to save the man’s life.
While beavers look and act cute, they will, as any wild animal, attack someone in order to defend themselves.
Most importantly, however, beavers maintain and defend their territories against intruders and are extremely intolerant towards intruders.
Eurasian beavers, as in the fisherman’s case, do not only mark their colony with a scent but also feeding sites, resting sites, and trails.
According to The Journal of Chemical Ecology, “scent marking apparently plays an important role in territory defense of the Eurasian beaver.”
Since beavers have poor eyesight, they have a keen sense of hearing, smell, and touch.
While beaver attacks on humans are supposed to be uncommon, it is important to remember that a beaver can hear and smell someone before a beaver can see a person and that a beaver’s bite can turn into a deadly encounter.