Angry Beaver

[Platapus]

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.

He stopped so that he could take a picture but as he approached the beaver it pounced on him, biting him in the thigh.

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.