It was the most serious in a string of beaver attacks on humans in Belarus, as the rodents have turned increasingly aggressive when confronted by humans after wandering near homes, shops and schools.

Other beavers also have turned aggressive when confronted by humans after wandering near homes, shops and schools throughout Belarus. Once hunted nearly to extinction in Europe, beavers have made ...

It was the most serious in a string of beaver attacks on humans in Belarus, as the rodents have turned increasingly aggressive when confronted by humans after wandering near homes, shops and schools.

The fisherman wanted his photo shot with a beaver. The beaver had other ideas: It attacked the 60-year-old man with razor-sharp teeth, slicing an artery and causing him to bleed to death.

In most cases the animal attacks to protect its young or its lodge, or—as in this case—because it’s rabid. At least one fatal attack on a human by a beaver has been reported. In 2013, a 60-year-old ...

A 54-year-old New Jersey man expected a quiet day by the river. Instead, he became the victim of a rare wildlife attack.

Beavers are rarely aggressive to humans unless provoked, and attacks are often attributed to rabies. In a similar case, a 73-year-old man in Massachusetts was attacked in September 2021 by a ...

Back in the ’70s, researchers at Auburn University attempted to investigate whether alligators could be used to slim down beaver populations, but after an increase in alligator attacks on humans ...

The shift in how researchers are investigating beavers at these sites is subtle but significant. Changing questions from a human-centered focus to an animal-centered perspective makes room to ...

Dwelling in the waterways and wetlands of Nebraska, beavers are the architects of the Plains, shaping landscapes with their industrious dams and lodges. Beavers exemplify complex relationship ...

Beaver exploitation, 400,000 years ago, testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins. Scientific Reports , 2023; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46956-6 Cite This Page : ...