10.
Australian Killer Eagle During a wildlife show at Desert Park in Australia,
an eagle tried to carry off a young boy to his doom.
It was a wedge-tail eagle, the biggest bird of prey in the entire country.
This absolute beast of a bird has an impressive wingspan of roughly nine feet (2.7m) and is
known for lifting animals off the ground that weigh up to 10 pounds (4.5kg).
You would think that rules out most young boys, but no.
The eagle swooped down and tried to take the child back to its nest!
According to witnesses at the show who saw the drama unfold, the boy had closed the hood
of his sweater around his face and this appeared to confuse the eagle.
It swooped in, made contact with its claws as if about to pick the child up by his hood,
but realized at the last second it wasn’t able to.
The boy was fine in the end, but the park had to cancel the show and put the eagle away
because the guests were terrified!
Believe it or not, this was not the first time an eagle tried to steal a small child.
According to The Atlantic, in Milwaukee, an eagle snatched a two-month-old baby from its
cradle and then flew it back to its nest.
That was in 1910, reported in the Milwaukee Sentinel.
In that case, a sharpshooter had to take the eagle out and then climb the tree to rescue
the baby.
But sadly, it had already passed away.
9.
Sleeping Kayakers A pair of kayakers had to paddle 6 miles (9.6km)
across Skilak Lake in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Park.
But this was no ordinary paddle trip.
They did it on a Saturday morning after being mauled by a bear while asleep the night before!
A man named Jamie Nelson was at the Skilak Lake Campground when the campers showed up
at 2:00 o'clock in the morning.
They were ripped to shreds by the bear and exhausted after paddling for at least two
hours.
According to what the kayakers told Jamie, they had been camping on the shores of the
lake since Friday night.
They kayaked to the remote spot from the campground and were hoping for a relaxing weekend in
the wilderness.
But midnight brought a rather unpleasant surprise.
As they were sleeping in their tent, a bear charged at them!
It broke into their tent and tried to rip them to pieces!
Even though they had bear spray, the attack was so unexpected that neither of them were
able to pull it out of their luggage.
Both kayakers were injured, but luckily the bear lost interest and let them go.
They were able to limp back to their kayaks and paddle all the way to safety while their
kayaks filled with blood pouring from their wounds.
Thankfully the victims were lucky and made full recoveries.
And now, chances are they'll think twice before going deep into bear territory by themselves.
8.
Eaten by a Python Daniel Brandon loved snakes.
The 31-year-old man from the UK had an affinity for reptiles.
His favorite was a female African rock python he had named Tiny.
It was only one of his many snake pets, a huge serpent over 8 feet (2.4m) long.
When Daniel was discovered dead in his home from asphyxiation, it was his favorite pet
that was found beside his corpse.
Tiny the rock python had killed Daniel.
According to coroner Andrew Bradley, there was absolutely no doubt that Daniel was killed
as a result of his pet snake wrapping itself around his throat and strangling him to death.
It came as a huge shock to Daniel's friends and family because he had been keeping snakes
for 16 years.
He was a self-taught professional snake handler.
He had ten snakes and 12 tarantulas that he kept inside his room in his family home.
His mother says that Daniel first got Tiny when she was so small that she could fit in
the palm of his hand.
But she grew and grew, she got hungrier and hungrier, and she ultimately bit the hand
that fed her.
Or rather, strangled the throat of the owner of the hand that fed her!
As for why Daniel's beloved serpent turned on him, there is no explanation that makes
the case any less tragic.
In all likelihood, Daniel had been playing with the snake when he made a grave error
and allowed her to slip her powerful coils around his neck.
As she squeezed tighter, Daniel was helpless to pry her off or even call for help.
7.
Holiday Squirrel Attacks Over the holidays, residents of a small Welsh
town found themselves being victimized by a vicious squirrel.
Yes, a squirrel, not even plural.
A single squirrel injured multiple people and their pets over two days of mayhem in
the town of Buckley.
On Boxing Day, locals began whispering of encounters they had had with a particularly
violent squirrel that stopped them from leaving their homes.
It seemed to be a bad-tempered rodent on an unprecedented warpath.
It bit a woman named Nicola Crowther, it bit her friend Kev, and then it bit her neighbor
Scott Felton.
Nicola wrote on Facebook that she dared not leave her house in fear that the squirrel
was still lurking outside.
From what we've been able to gather, the squirrel attacked at least 18 residents over the course
of just 48 hours.
Most reported their injuries on social media.
One Buckley resident claimed that she had befriended the squirrel previously and that
she couldn't believe how it had altered its behavior within a very short period.
It got angry out of the blue and began lashing out.
It wasn't until the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals got involved
and captured the squirrel that the mayhem finally ceased.
Sadly, they were forced to put the unpredictable animal to sleep.
Would you ever cower in your house because of a violent squirrel lurking in your neighborhood?
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:) 6.
Leopard Seals vs Sharks In a shocking first from New Zealand, scientists
have discovered leopard seals attacking and feasting on sharks!
It's made them part of a very small and very exclusive club of predators capable of hunting
and eating these prehistoric fish.
From a distance, leopard seals almost look like cute water dogs.
They have adorable faces, they flop around on the shore in the most adorable way, and
they don't seem like they could hurt anyone.
But according to the study headed by expert Krista van der Linde, shark remains have been
found in the waste of leopard seals.
This is irrefutable proof that seals eat sharks.
The experts also discovered signs of struggle on the seals’ bodies from where sharks fought
back.
The results of the study blew away the scientists.
Nobody had thought such a thing was possible.
Who knew leopard seals could take on sharks?!
The species of shark the leopard seals prefer to eat is the ghost shark.
These fish have huge spines that are supposed to protect them from predators.
But leopard seals don't seem to care.
Researchers even found them with spines stuck in their faces.
It appears ghost sharks taste so good that seals don't care if they end up with a dozen
spines like porcupine quills stuck in their face just to get a few good bites.
5.
Alligator in the Pond In South Carolina, a woman was killed by an
alligator and left dead in a pond.
According to Charleston County deputies, officers were called to the pond at about 5:00 o'clock
on a Friday after reports of a vicious animal attack on Kiawah Island.
When they arrived, the woman was already dead, floating limp and bloody in the water.
It was the third fatal alligator attack in South Carolina in the last four years.
The reason these numbers are so important is that prior to four years ago, South Carolina
never in its history recorded a human fatality via alligator attack.
It seems the alligators are getting more dangerous, luring people into bodies of water and then
tearing them to shreds.
Unfortunately, we don't know what the woman was doing with the alligator in the moments
before the attack.
What we do know is that deputies shot the alligator to death and then pulled its body
out of the pond.
They just couldn't leave it alive to lure somebody else into its hungry jaws.
4.
Boxer vs Bear A boxer got into a fight with a bear after
it killed his friend.
Now that's not a sentence you hear every day.
It happened while the duo were on a fishing trip.
Ilya Medvedev and his friend Vyacheslav Dudnik were unexpectedly set upon by the angriest
brown bear either man had ever seen.
It came out of the Russian wilderness, charging like a wild bull at the two men.
Dudnik pulled out a gun and tried to shoot the beast, but it knocked the weapon out of
his hands and then clawed his face off.
Medvedev, the boxer, then stood his ground and started fighting the animal.
He punched its face, took some pretty serious punches from the bear himself, and ultimately
stabbed the thing to death with a hunting knife.
The boxer had to call for a boat to take him back to civilization and get him to a hospital.
But his friend didn't make it.
Medvedev had to sit in the boat with his rescuers and the corpse of his dead pal, while his
own face swelled and bled.
Once at the hospital, he was put into a medically induced coma and later had to undergo extensive
facial reconstructive surgery.
Even still, his face will never look the same again from all those left hooks delivered
by the bear.
3.
The Neighbor’s Kangaroo A man in Tennessee strangled his neighbor’s
pet kangaroo to death after the kangaroo attacked his wife.
This may be the most bizarre case of revenge in a very long time.
The owners of the pet kangaroo, unsurprisingly, are furious by what's happened.
It all started when the neighbors contacted the owners of the kangaroo, Hope and Chris
Lea.
They said the animal had gotten out of its normal area and was getting a little too close
to their property.
They asked how to best get the animal back into its enclosure.
The owners weren't home, but they informed their neighbors that they could use the kangaroo’s
feed to lure it back into confinement.
They said they'd be home in an hour and they would deal with the issue themselves if the
neighbors weren't up for it.
In that hour, the kangaroo allegedly assaulted the female neighbor after she stepped onto
the property.
But of course it did.
It was an animal defending its territory.
Anybody's dog would probably do the same thing.
But the woman's husband had a huge overreaction, becoming enraged and strangling the animal
until it was dead.
He didn't simply take his wife and go home, he went out of his way to strangle it.
And this was no wild animal.
It was the Lea’s pet, a pet they loved and had raised since it was a baby.
It didn't actually injure the woman, but merely gave her a tap to warn her to go away.
2.
Yak Attack A man from Central Pennsylvania survived a
savage animal attack while hiking high up in the Himalaya Mountains.
He wasn't attacked by a snow leopard or a Yeti, but rather by a boring yak.
His name is Rick Rovegno, a professional climber who's scaled mountains on every continent
except Africa and Antarctica.
While climbing, he expects to experience his fair share of incidents.
But these are normally reserved to things involved with climbing, like injuries from
an unexpected fall.
Yet on his latest trip to the Himalayas, he experienced a rather unique danger.
A big and hairy yak sent him to the hospital.
He was trying to summit the Labouche Peak in Nepal, 21,000 feet (6,400m) above sea level.
He came face to face with the yak at 17,000 feet (5,181m).
The 65-year-old man had lived long enough to know not to mess with wild animals.
So, he tried to give the yak a wide berth.
He moved around the beast, trying not to even look it in the eyes.
But for no reason, seemingly unprovoked, the half-ton monster charged at him!
Rick had nowhere to go as the yak drove its horns straight into his leg and then flipped
him in the air like he was a wet rag.
Rick landed on his shoulder and neck, stunned and not knowing what to do.
Luckily for him, the yak had had its fun and took off running in the other direction.
Rick had to be airlifted by a helicopter and taken to a small village in Lukla, where he
was fixed up and given antibiotics for the puncture wounds left by the animal’s sharp
horns.
1.
A Horrific Dog Attack A young boy went missing from a remote Australian
desert community.
His family reported him missing on Friday night after searching for several hours and
finding no trace of the three-year-old boy.
Police from the Northern Territory then got involved, joining the search effort late on
New Year's Eve.
They finally discovered the preschool student at about 9:00 o'clock in the morning on Saturday.
He was terribly injured, as he had been ravaged by what appeared to be a wild animal.
According to the police, it was actually dogs that got ahold of the boy.
A pair of canines living on a piece of property deep in the wilderness, not used to children,
had sniffed the lost boy out and attacked.
Even though there was no suggestion of foul play, the parents are still just heartbroken.
He never recovered, even though the police got him as quickly as they could to the hospital.
The dogs were taken away from their owner and in all likelihood will be euthanized.
That way, the beasts can never tear apart a family so tragically.
As for how the boy vanished and wound up so far from home, that’s still a complete mystery.
How do you think this situation should have been handled?
Was the neighbor in the right for strangling the kangaroo or should he have just minded
his own business and went home?
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