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Starving and desperate: Man repelled Siberian bear attack with computer


RT
Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:52 UTC
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A man in a Siberian village was suddenly confronted by a bear apparently looking for food. The man, however, kept his cool and repelled the attack by throwing a computer component at the animal.

The incident happened in a village near the city of Tomsk in Western Siberia, Russia. A local man decided to walk to a dump apparently in search of non-ferrous metals when he suddenly saw a bear, the district's regional game commissioner told RT.

A medium-sized bear rushed, or maybe just moved, towards the man. But the man kept his head and shouted at the bear, furiously. He picked what was near at hand at the dump - a computer part - and threw it right at the predator. The move evidently confused the bear.

"The bear rushed to one side, the man to the other," added Sergey Yelnikov who arrived at the scene to investigate the incident and later tracked the animal.

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Bear attacks search party in the Bieszczady Mountains, Poland


thenews.pl
Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:22 UTC
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© The Siberian TimesA one-way ticket for humanity to quit the planet, please...
The search for a missing 60-year-old man was suspended on Sunday evening after a bear attacked members of a rescue team in the Bieszczady Mountains of south east Poland.

According to the Bieszczady branch of Poland's Mountain Rescue Voluntary Service (GOPR), the incident marks the first such bear attack in the region in 50 years.

Two members of GOPR were searching the national park on a quad when the bear struck.

The two men managed to flee unharmed, but when they returned to the vehicle, traces of blood indicated that the bear was injured.

GOPR has stated that the animal could be highly dangerous if wounded, and accordingly, no access to the area is allowed until the bear has been tracked down.
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Claudia Huber, Yukon woman, killed in bear attack: 6th fatality in North America this year


cbc.ca
Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:51 UTC
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© FacebookClaudia Huber, right, died after an incident involving a bear in the Teslin, Yukon area Saturday.
Claudia Huber, who operated an adventure tour company, died Saturday

A woman from the Teslin, Yukon area has been killed by a bear.

Claudia Huber, who was in her early 40s, was taken to the Teslin Community Health Centre, a 50-kilometre trip, by her husband, who told officials about the incident.

It's not clear whether she had already died by the time he got her to the centre.

Huber and Matias Liniger operate Breath of Wilderness, a year-round adventure touring company. The company website includes a German translation.

Comment: The other deaths caused by bears in 2014 in north America -

Black bear kills hiker near West Milford, New Jersey - fifth fatality this year in North America

Bear attacks - fourth fatality this year in North America: Bear kills hunter near Norman Wells, Canada

Bear attacks and kills 31-year-old man in Wyoming

Rick Cross, missing Kananaskis hunter, killed in bear attack, Alberta

Woman killed by a black bear in Fort McMurray, Alberta

By way of comparison the number of deaths in the recent past (years 2000 - 2013) seem to average out to about just two a year, going by this wikipedia list -

List of fatal bear attacks in North America

A number of fatalities has also occurred recently in Russia -

Bear attacks kill at least three people with many others injured in Siberia and far-east Russia

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CBS producing a show about animals planning global attack against humans

Meredith Woerner
io9.com
Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:21 UTC
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CBS is making a show that's basically The Birds, but instead of birds attacking humans, it's all of the animals across the globe attacking humans. All of them.

CBS has ordered 13 episode of the TV adaptation of James Patterson's totally wacky Zoo. The book is centered around an outbreak of organized animal attacks. The animals know something, and they're pissed! These are coordinated attacks against the human species, which just sounds so ridiculously terrible I cannot wait to watch it every single day. Here's the synopsis from Amazon:

Comment: For real life creature attacks on humans from across the globe check out this Animals topic.

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Bloodthirsty rabbit joins the long list of critters currently attacking humans!


youtube.com
Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:39 UTC
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Hilarity ensues as man Is attacked by bloodthirsty rabbit.
The laughing in the background makes it even funnier.

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Man trampled to death by jumbo in Coimbatore, India - 7th fatality in the area in 10 months


Deccan Chronicle
Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:58 UTC
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A 52-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant
A 52-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Karamadai on Saturday, the third person to be killed by a jumbo in just two months in Coimbatore.

Vegetable vendor K. Murugesh came out of his house at Periyar Nagar in Karamadai to answer nature's call around 5.30 am when two tuskers standing near a bush, almost seven km from the forest boundary, charged towards him.

As it was dark, Murugesh did not notice the pachyderms and was close to the tuskers when they trumpeted and came charging from the bush. Though Murugesh tried to escape, one of the elephants chased and attacked him, causing grievous injuries.

A few villagers, who came out on hearing his loud screams, rushed Murugesh to the government hospital in Karamadai. However, he died on way. The forest department staff are now battling to drive away the two tuskers into the forest.
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Couple attacked by bear outside house in Pasadena, California

Fiona Keating
International Business Times
Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:33 UTC
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© ReutersBears are coming closer to cities in the search for food
Bob and Irene McKeown were lucky to survive a terrifying encounter with a bear in California.

Surveillance video footage shows the couple leaving their holiday home, unaware that the bear was close behind them.

As the couple walked towards their car, they were followed by the young animal, which lunged at Bob McKeown.

After helping his wife into the vehicle, McKeown felt something on his leg.

"I closed the door and I looked.... a bear!" McKeown told news network KTLA. "You don't know how scared you are, you just see a bear. I've never encountered a bear," he added.

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Caged bear bites off 9-year-old boy's arm in China

Fiona Keating
International Business Times
Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:12 UTC
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© ReutersA 9-year-old boy's arm was bitten off in a bear attack.
Bear savaged the Chinese boy's arm after he tried to feed the animal through its cage on Sunday

A bear savaged the arm of a boy who tried to feed the animal through its cage in central China on Sunday.

The accident happened when the nine-year-old attempted to give it food through the bars of its cage, said a doctor and state media.

The boy was pushing his arm into the bear enclosure at Pingdingshan Hebin Park in Henan province, when the animal caught hold of him.

Medical staff at Pingdingshan Number 152 treated the child and a doctor said that the boy had lost his entire right arm, which needed to be amputated.
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Bear attack critically injures man in central Kashmir, India


news.webindia123.com
Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:00 UTC
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A 50-year-old man was attacked and injured critically in the central Kashmir district of Ganderbal, official sources said here today.

A bear entered the village Chount Waliwar in Ganderbal from nearby forest and before the locals could do anything the wild animal attacked and injured Mian Chichi, they said.

The injured was immediately rushed to local hospital from where he was referred to S K Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in a critical condition. The wild animal later escaped back into the forest, they added.
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3-year-old 'stable' after mauling in jaguar pit at Arkansas Zoo


New York Post
Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:44 UTC
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© KTHV-TVThe jaguar exhibit at Little Rock Zoo in Arkansas after a 3-year-old fell Oct. 10, 2014, into the enclosure.
A 3-year-old who was critically injured after falling into a Little Rock Zoo exhibit and being bitten by jaguars was improving Saturday, hospital officials said.

"The child's condition has been upgraded to stable and is expected to improve," Arkansas Children's Hospital spokesman Dan McFadden said in a statement.

The child's guardian has asked that the name and other information about the child not be released, McFadden said. The hospital statement didn't identify how the guardian is related to the child.

A Little Rock police report says the child's father told officers he was taking a photograph of the jaguar exhibit Friday morning when he saw the child's feet go over the railing. The report says the child's grandfather also only saw the child's feet disappear over the railing.

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