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Animals that are unexpectedly dangerous?
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15-08-2012 3:23am#1
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That was a sturgeon, wasn´t it? The one from the first case?
I remember reading about some fish... needlefish or something they're called, that have been known to basically throw themselves to the eyes of people stabbing them... dunno why they do it, they're very small and obviously not man eaters. They just do...
Seems that large conger eels have attacked people too, and there was this documentary with Jeremy Wade about very large eels in New Zealand that eat sheep... anything that eats sheep can eat humans I say...
Not just large ones. I got a nasty bite from a small conger some years back and it left a nice scar. A really big one latching onto a diver would be capable of doing serious damage.
The one that got be would have been under 10lb, but it was still a powerful fish for it's size, a conger like this one
would be capable of keeping a diver held underwater if the fish felt threatened and there have been conger caught that were over three times the weight of the one in the pic.0 -
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Not just large ones. I got a nasty bite from a small conger some years back and it left a nice scar. A really big one latching onto a diver would be capable of doing serious damage.
The one that got be would have been under 10lb, but it was still a powerful fish for it's size, a conger like this one
would be capable of keeping a diver held underwater if the fish felt threatened and there have been conger caught that were over three times the weight of the one in the pic.
I can't get over the size of the mouth on that Conger - you'd have zero chance if that got your arm and retreated back into its hole and just held ya there til your air went.... and then ate ya after which I'm sure it would.0 -
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But aren´t boars considered to be dangerous by pretty much everyone?
In Latin America, the white lipped peccary may seem too small to be a threat but there's plenty of stories about hunters being charged by the entire herd and ripped to pieces by the angry things after shooting at them:
Collared peccary aka javelina is less likely to attack but equally well armed:
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dodderangler wrote: »They have serious strength in them
I caught them on the rod and even one that's 15 to 20lb have serious strength
When you hook them the first battle is to stop them going back into the hole they live in and that can take several minutes and when they are up on the boat gettin the hook out Is a battle as you need to be extremely careful or lose a finger or a hand should the conger grab your wrist and then start a death roll similar to a crocs
I have a nice scar on my leg that can attest to the effectiveness to their bite and roll technique
Have hooked many over the years and totally agree about their strength. Have never come close to getting bitten by one when fishing, so a bit typical of my luck that the one time one bit me was when I was diving. As said earlier I was lucky that the one that got me was quite a small conger.0 -
I have a nice scar on my leg that can attest to the effectiveness to their bite and roll technique
Have hooked many over the years and totally agree about their strength. Have never come close to getting bitten by one when fishing, so a bit typical of my luck that the one time one bit me was when I was diving. As said earlier I was lucky that the one that got me was quite a small conger.
That reminds me of the giant (short-finned or long-finned, don´t remember which one) eels from New Zealand's lakes which are supossed to be very voracious and to eat sheep by biting off chunks using that bite and roll technique.
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Capt'n Midnight wrote: »a shark will only attack if you are wet
AHEM
A fisherman was attacked by a shark after he hauled it into his boat to pose for a commemorative picture.
Angler Stephen Perkins, 52, got more than he bargained for when he hauled the fish on board his boat 'Serenity' off Lundy Island, Devon.
As he was preparing to unhook the fish, it sank its teeth into his wrist leaving him needing re-constructive surgery. It has earned him an unlikely place in history as the first documented case of a man being bitten by a Blue Shark off British waters.
Such was the blood loss that an RAF Sea King helicopter had to be scrambled to take him to North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple on Saturday where he was finally released today.
Although the incident could not be treated as an "unprovoked" attack, it is believed to be the first documented case of a Blue Shark - a common migratory visitor to British waters - biting someone in this way.
However, experts said it was possible there could have been similar "attacks" in the past which went unreported during the 1950s and 1960s when as many as 6,000 Blue Sharks a year were caught off the coast of Cornwall alone each year.
While still common off the west coast of England and Wales, Blue Sharks - which can grow to 13ft long - have seen their numbers drastically reduced by overfishing in recent decades, with only about 200 reeled in last year in the same area.
Mr Perkins, from Glamorgan, south Wales, is a regular shark angler and was making the most of sunny weather conditions on Saturday.
"We don't harm the sharks when we hook them, we just take a picture and put them back in the water," he explained.
"But the one I got was pretty lively and having put his jaw around my wrist then let go.
"The scariest bit, to be honest, was going up in a helicopter.
"It won't put me off fishing again but I will remember to pick the shark up by the blunt end in future."
Douglas Herdson, 61, information officer at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, Devon, said: "This is the first attack by a Blue Shark in this country, but it is very unlikely to be unprovoked."
But Richard Pierce, chairman of the Shark Trust, said: "Between the 1950s and 1960s the Shark Angling Club of Great Britain by themselves caught nearly 20,000 Blue Sharks - believe me that would not have been bite-free.
"I was bitten by a porbeagle shark, which is a first cousin of the Great White, just last year.
"I was taking a hook out of its mouth, what was it going to do kiss me?"
He said there had only been four documented cases of shark "attacks" off British waters in the past, the most serious being when a basking shark unintentionally overturned a 15ft boat in the Firth of Clyde in 1937, causing three people to drown.
An 18-year-old German was once bitten on the arm by a small shark he was trying to release from a net in Scotland and needed hospital treatment after the wound turned septic.
"There has never been a proper, real shark attack in British waters and this is not a shark attack," Mr Pierce said.
There have, however, been several people injured by sharks on land including a landlady in Kent who was hit by a set of shark jaws which fell off the wall of her pub and a man whose arm was trapped inside the jaws of a dead shark he was transporting on ice after he stopped his van suddenly sending the carcass flying through the air, snapping its jaws shut on his arm.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3350690/Man-bitten-by-shark-as-he-poses-for-photograph-on-boat.html0 -
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Leopard seals are quite dangerous when they want to be and have been known to attack humans. As regards unexpected attacks I would have to say that tamanduas or giant anteaters have been known to kill humans in captivity and in the wild. They stand one their hind legs and attack very fast with their huge claws.
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