Animal Attacks (Page 2)

The craziest animal attacks stories from all across the world.

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72-Year-Old Hiker Is Hospitalized After Grizzly Attack. Authorities Are Not Attempting to Capture the Bear

By Kris Millgate

‘No Place for Cowardice.’ Hunting Dangerous Game in Old Botswana

By Col. Henry S. Cilliers

‘I Heard the Crunch of Something Breaking.’ How I Survived a Double Grizzly Bear Attack

Hikers Face $25,000 Fine After This Bear Encounter in Banff National Park

By Kris Millgate

Animal Advocates Ask Montana to Force Hunters and Trappers to Carry Bear Spray

By Natalie Krebs

The 8 Most Dangerous Snakes in America

By Tim MacWelch

How I Caught 69 Florida Cottonmouths in One Night (and Didn’t Die)

By Paul E. Allen

There Have Been 3 Horrific Alligator Attacks In Florida Recently. Here’s One Expert’s Theory on Why

He Played Dead While a 1,500-Pound Bear Shook Him Like a Rabbit

‘Bear-dar’ Developers Say the New AI Tech Is Already Helping Prevent Polar Bear Conflicts in the Arctic

How My Guide’s Quick Thinking Saved a Kid from an Enraged Grizzly Bear

By Jules Ashlock

My Father Died from a Snakebite. I Expect I Will Too, One Day

By Paul E. Allen

I Was Charged by a Grizzly with Three Cubs. All I Had Was My .38 Special

A Sheep-Killing Grizzly Mauled My Ranch Hand, Who Managed to Crawl a Mile for Help

By Dick Mosher, as told to Ben East

I Was Trapped on a Cliff Edge, Staring Down a Charging Grizzly

I Killed the Last Grizzly in Colorado By Stabbing It With an Arrow

My Dog Sacrificed Himself to Save My Life in a Brown Bear Attack

A Rattlesnake Bite on a Fishing Trip Cost Me a Leg, and Nearly My Life

Black Bear Hunter Kills a Charging Grizzly with His Rifle at 5 Yards

I Grew Up on Safari. The Most Dangerous Game Isn’t What You Think

By Michael Branham, as told to Jim Rearden

Missing Hiker Found Dead in Glacier National Park Was Likely Killed by a Grizzly

Yellowstone Hikers Evacuated by Helicopter After Bear Attack in the Front Country

By Kris Millgate

An Anti-Poaching Ranger Was Gored to Death by the Animal He Lived to Protect

‘They Might Be Dying. I Need to Get to Them.’ An Off-Duty Combat Medic Responded to Alaska Bear Attack

By Kris Millgate

2 Soldiers Were Attacked by a Bear in Alaska. Bear Spray ‘May Have Saved Their Lives’

By Natalie Krebs

‘Better a Live Coward Than a Dead Hero.’ My Lifetime of Grizzly Bear Encounters

I Raised 3 Kids Alone in the Wilderness. Surviving Bear and Moose Attacks Was (Almost) Routine

By Olive A. Fredrickson

I Quit Fishing for the Addictive Thrill of Hunting Rattlesnakes — and Got Bit

By Dr. C. E. Kuschel

The Night I Treed Four Cougars, and Nearly Died Chasing Them

By E. Boyd Hilderbrand, as told to Ken Crandall

I Spent 40 Years Living with Wolves. They Still Manage to Surprise Me

as told to Jim Rearden, By Frank Glaser

A Wolf Attacked a Woman in Germany Just Weeks After Politicians Push to Legalize Wolf Hunting There

I Watched a Giant Rattlesnake Kill a Man

By Archibald Rutledge

The Last Time I Saw My Friend Alive, He Told Me About the Black Bears Getting into His Garbage

Two Problem Bears Terrorized Us for a Week in the Wilderness. We Fought Back with Torches and Cherry Bombs

By Doris DeCleene

I Was Asked to Investigate a Wolf Attack. Here’s What I Found

By Frank Glaser, as told to Jim Rearden

I Spent a Decade Chasing the Deadliest Livestock Killer in Utah’s History

By Frank Miniter

Officials Confirm a Mountain Lion Killed the Colorado Hiker Found Dead on New Year’s Day

After a Single Bear Attacked a Group of Schoolchildren on a Hike, B.C. Urged to Reopen Grizzly Hunts

By Kris Millgate

My Guide Left Me Alone, and I Was Mauled by a Black Bear

By William D. Brown

A Black Bear Tried to Kill My Dogs. Then It Turned on Me

Another Hunter Was Just Mauled by a Grizzly, This Time in Alberta

By Natalie Krebs

They Tell You to Play Dead When a Brown Bear Attacks. I Found Out If It Really Works

By Rollin Braden, as told to Marguerite Reiss

Elk Hunter Dies 3 Weeks After He Was Attacked by a Grizzly

By Kris Millgate

I Tried to Flush a Pheasant. Instead, I Got Mauled by a Grizzly — and 320 Stitches

By John Haviland

I Ignored My Gut Feeling and Went Hunting with Buddies Anyway. Then a Bear Almost Killed Me

By Larry Mueller, Marguerite Reiss

An Elk Hunter Just Sustained ‘Serious’ Injuries in a Grizzly Attack. Officials Have a Theory About What Attracted the Bear

By Natalie Krebs

Do Bears Hold Grudges? The Legendary Tale of a Wounded Alaskan Grizzly

Man Found Dead in Arkansas Campground Was Likely Killed by a Bear. This Would Be the Second Fatal Attack There in a Month

Wisconsin Wolves Have Already Attacked More Hunting Dogs Than Last Year — With 6 Dogs Killed in Just 2 Days

I Faced Down a Charging Rhino, Just Like My Great-Grandfather, Teddy Roosevelt

By Jonathan Roosevelt

I’ve Lived in Bear Country My Whole Life. Here’s What Happens When Bears Don’t Back Down

Grandfather Mauled by Black Bear in ‘Unheard of’ Attack Has Died, Arkansas Officials Confirm

‘It’s Just Unheard Of.’ Arkansas Just Had Its First Black Bear Attack in Decades

By Kris Millgate

We Tracked Down a Killer Grizzly — and It Almost Ended in Tragedy

By Gordon D. Gosling

The Recent Death of an American Hunter Highlights the Dangers of Cape Buffalo Hunting in Africa

By Kris Millgate

Watch: NHL Mascot Charged by Brown Bear While Fishing in Alaska

Podcast: How I Stopped a Charging Griz at 5 Yards (with a 10mm)

Carolina Man Who Saved His Duck Dog from a Gator’s Jaws Says He’d Do It Again in a Heartbeat

These Alaskans Stopped a Charging Grizzly at 5 Yards with Their 10mm Pistols

I Was Nearly Killed in a Freak Moose Attack. Then My Buddies Abandoned Me

By Clint Buckmaster, as told to Jim Rearden

I Guided Safaris for Years Without Being Mauled. One Day, My Luck Finally Ran Out

I’ve Been Charged by Bears and Moose. Wild Hogs Are Much, Much Worse

By Charles Elliott

A Polar Bear Attacked Me at Our Research Camp. It Should Have Crushed My Skull

By John Legault

I Was Mauled Over and Over Again by a Grizzly. I Should Have Died

By Forest H. Young Jr.