A fisherman has been bitten to death by a beaver after trying to take its photograph.
The
man was on a fishing trip at Lake Shestakov in Belarus with two friends
when they spotted the animal on the side of the road.
He stopped so that he could take a picture but as he approached the beaver it pounced on him, biting him in the thigh.
His
friends attempted to stem the flow of blood from the wound but the
animal’s bite had severed a main artery and the man, who came from
Brest, bled to death.
Beaver
attacks are rare and according to experts those animals that do go for
humans are usually rabid. However, they are not unheard off. Beaver
teeth are sharp enough to cut down trees.
Earlier this week a
video was posted on YouTube showing a man in the Tver region, northwest
of Moscow, running away from a beaver who charged at him as he was
filming in the area.
Last year in the US two girls were mauled by a
beaver in a lake in Virginia as they swam. They suffered serious bite
and scratch injuries. A man was also attacked in New York and an elderly
woman in Washington.
In 2003 in Belarus a farm manager and
farmhand were bitten by a rabid beaver as they tried to chase it from a
barn. They survived the attack.
Beavers are the second largest rodents in the world
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