Beaver kills man

Adam Khor

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/11/newser-beaver-kills-man/2074145/

And no, there is no falling tree involved.

Boggot Globule

Should've kicked him right in the teeth.

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.

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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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.



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...

Galvasean

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

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

Mickeroo

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.

recedite

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

robp

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