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Post by Felis Rex on Feb 23, 2012 21:01:04 GMT -5
It never fails to amaze me how much fauna has changed since the classical era
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Post by Felis Rex on Feb 23, 2012 21:46:25 GMT -5
Was looking up info on leopard seals and learned this.
There are three documented attacks on humans by Leopard seals.
1. In 1915, a Leopard seal chased a member of the legendary Shackleton expedition across the ice. Thomas Orde-Lees only escaped when one of his companions managed to shoot the seal.
2. In 1985 a Leopard seal grabbed an Antarctic explorer and tried to drag him off the pack ice into the water. Gareth Wood was saved with the assistance of his companions, who managed to beat the seal off Wood's leg by repeatedly kicking it in the head.
3. In 2003 British biologist Kirsty Brown was snorkeling in the water when a Leopard seal grabbed her and dragged her nearly 200 feet down until she drowned.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Feb 23, 2012 22:00:55 GMT -5
Wow when you consider how few people have been there, thats actually a fair sized number.
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Post by Felis Rex on Feb 23, 2012 22:10:51 GMT -5
these are just the reported cases if you consider all the countries that have done Antarctic Expeditions with reports that are still considered government classified documents. Leopard seals have very limited exposure to humans so they are mentally still open prey. They are also known for attacking pontoons on inflatable boats which causes one to question what it is they are use to attacking that is that big?
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Feb 23, 2012 22:15:46 GMT -5
Infant whales? Perhaps seperated from there pods? would be impressive.
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Post by apexpredator7 on Feb 24, 2012 11:45:15 GMT -5
i heard when the leop seal did the most recent attack it was only playing but it got out of hand
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Post by Reticulatus on Mar 2, 2012 21:22:42 GMT -5
Predator and Prey Reticulated Pythons and Humans Reticulated Pythons (Broghammerus reticulatus) inhabit South and Southeast Asia and they are the longest snake alive today. Humans are attacked and eaten by these super predators and in Indonesia and Sarawak (Malaysia) there are 20 reasonably reliable cases known in the last 150 years. Ruud de Lang reports that this is an underestimate of reality because many cases of Reticulated Python predation on humans remain known only at the local level. He investigated several incidents. As is often the case, food webs are more complex that first thought, and humans do prey upon and eat Reticulated Pythons. He notes the difficult in deciding why the Reticulated Pythons attacked humans. They may have been accidental encounters that resulted in a defensive attack or a hungry snake waiting in ambush for a prey. Large Reticulated Pythons are strong and a single person is no match for a snake that is 3 m long or more. Citation De Lang R., 2010. The Reticulated Python (Broghammerus reticulatus) and man (Homo sapiens) Eat Each Other: Animals , Enjoy Your Meal! Litteratura Serpentium 30(4):254-269. squamates.blogspot.com/2011/02/predator-and-prey-reticulated-pythons.html
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Post by rhino on Feb 2, 2013 0:50:31 GMT -5
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Post by rhino on Mar 22, 2013 15:01:33 GMT -5
the reason i said it was the worst was because the pig isn't an animal you'd normally think of as a man eater.
That somehow makes it all the more disturbing.
in my opinion.
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Post by batcheno on Jan 12, 2017 18:36:53 GMT -5
Crocodiles and anacondas eat humans
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