The fact that beavers have survived as a species for so long is due to the fact that a beaver is capable of defending itself from attacks.
Who would have thought that an animal with jaws so powerful and teeth so strong that they can fell a tree might be capable of biting someone?
It is a wild animal and it will defend itself (and its young) from what it perceives to be an attack.
I wonder how the guy was photographing the beaver. I guess he never heard of a telephoto lens???
Raymond may be on to something. Perhaps the photographer was trying for an unusual picture by poking the beaver or throwing rocks at it.
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He stopped so that he could take a picture but as he approached the beaver it pounced on him, biting him in the thigh.
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Unless the beaver was rabid, I am having a hard time believing that by simply approaching a beaver that it would suddenly attack. He must have been pretty close to the beaver. Probably more to the story than has been released.