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Beaver kills man

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    #2
    Boggot Globule
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    Should've kicked him right in the teeth.


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    aidoh
    Registered Users Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    Tragic story but it's the same sort of sensationalized crap that Sky News are always coming out with.
    It was the same sort of thing with the awful story about the urban fox that chewed off a babys fingers.


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    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    From watching Yukon men on discovery every week I'm not surprised
    These lads have huge teeth and will protect young to all expense
    More people are killed every year hunting beavers than been attacked by them.
    As a matter of fact this is probably first time I've heard of a beaver killing a human.
    Horrible way to go.


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    im invisible
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    Adam Khor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Guess its a recent thing to consider beavers as friendly fluffy furballs, cause in Medieval times they were famous for a not real but very gruesome habit... to bite their own testicles off when chased by hunters.

    img4461.jpg

    Apparently they were hunted for their testicles which were said to have healing properties. Supossedly, when a beaver had already castrated itself, it would raise its tail to show other hunters that it was no longer useful to them, and so was spared.

    No word about them castrating people, but still...


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    Galvasean
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    With gnashers like that can we really afford to take the risk!?!?!? :eek:


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    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    Was the Eurasian beaver native to Ireland and present and made extinct?

    or

    Was it never present?


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_beaver


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    Mickeroo
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    I thought they were here at some point, could be wrong though. They were definitely in Britain anyway and were reintroduced in Scotland in the last few years.


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    recedite
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    An interesting question. As their dens are underwater the bones would not be preserved, compared to, say bear bones which have often been found in caves. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
    But it is key to whether they would be protected or shot at by "the authorities" in the event of any (re) introduction.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74734195


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    robp
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    recedite wrote: »
    An interesting question. As their dens are underwater the bones would not be preserved, compared to, say bear bones which have often been found in caves. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
    But it is key to whether they would be protected or shot at by "the authorities" in the event of any (re) introduction.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74734195

    I have never really seen a serious discussion as to whether they could be native. I am reading J P Mallory's The Origins of the Irish at the moment. Apparently there is an Old Irish word for beaver abac, which have continued into modern Welsh as afanc and modern Breton as avank. I am guessing the modern Irish word is directly taken from English as its just béabhar. I am no linguist but abac got me wondering


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