animal-attacks-and-dangers

3 Animal Dangers in the News Today, Carry Accidents with Moose, Eradication of Deer, Elephant ...

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:23:11 +0100

Moose-vehicle crashes.

Upper Mid-Atlantic has been relatively plagued.

Moose occupied regions of the world.

Moose crossing a road or making use of a road especially for convenience.

It's pretty evident the danger of a dark colored moose at night or dark times, and white or albino similar affected (leucism, piebald, etc.) moose during matching color snow (confer Foleyet, Ontario), suddenly emerging onto a roadway, especially in slippery conditions, inclement weather, and visibility difficult, such as a blizzard, rain storm, or dense fog. Plus, moose might be 1000 to 3000 pounds.

When a car impacts these animals, typically what happens, is a severely smashed windshield, and corresponding corresponding injuries to the occupants of car.

Briefly, crashing into a moose can be almost like crashing into another small car.

Deer eradication slated.

There are deer-vehicle crashes.

In terms of the damage a deer can cause, most say it is less than moose due to the comparison in size.

Of course there are exceptions, such as a very large deer the size of small moose.

In another area, the proposals to eradicate deer have come up, such as in the

Catalina Island Conservancy in California in 2024, where a couple of thousand mule deer wee on their way to be shot from helicopters, before public opposition slowed it.

Now in 2025, out of concerns for wildfires bring started, there are plans being drawn up to shoot them from the ground instead of from the air.

Elephant trampling.

In some regions of the word, being trampled by an elephant is not exactly times last, it's still going on.

There was a recent incident in South Africa at an individual's gaming preserve; an elephant engaged in unanticipated behavior. Blunt force injuries, as they me be called, often the result without going into detail. Somewhere between over a hundred and less than a thousand elephant related deaths are estimated to occur a year.

Different kinds of damage in animal-vehicle crashes.

Ramifications or domino effects on roads after crashing into a moose, deer, or any other animal, might not be limited to just animal-vehicle impact. Other events like rear ending the car in front of another car that was suddenly stopped or in another lane due to impact (with an animal), and vehicles colliding with other vehicles the result of an unfolding incident.

Recourses, comments.

Ideas about shooting mass amounts of animals from helicopters like it was the manner of 70s warfare glamorized in the start of an 80's action TV series in prime time, has been in the public debate sphere for a range of animals. My opinions, mass shooting is a bad example, and a bad trend setter. Sending 2 or 3 of the animals or herds to different zoos, can be a solution. It might have a monetary cost. Or just move them. Fencing and herding projects. Shooting them also involves the cleanup process, which could entail additional sets of rounds of activities not in the most liked taste.

Incineration and other techniques for disposal, might, not saying for sure given region to region handling differences, be on the table.

Leaving carcasses out, might attract other carcass hungry predators like cougars to an area, which could possibly exacerbated the very same problems eradicating deer was aimed at doing. Also giving extra pounds and exercises for already large dangerous animals to grow even larger and stronger.

Can the Era of Animal Attacks in Zoos Finally Come to an End?

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 23:05:03 +0100

There have been a number of attack incidents recently, both in people attacking animals, and animals attacking people. Instead of listing attacks and providing a brief narrative, let's look at some of the pictures and questions.

As far as I can remember, I thought part of the whole ideas of zoos is so that people can view animals safely, no matter what the kind or species. Meanwhile, the animals are situated in ways where they are protected and enabled to have a natural lifespan. Zoos could house the smallest and harmless bird, to large elephants, to reputed as fierce lions.

Animal attacks in zoos might be one of the historically biggest conflicts of interest and ironies.

Considering the number of attacks over the past 3 decades, a number up around 700, a question which presents itself may include, 'what happened?". As though the 'zoo system' totally let down and disappointed the objective of safety.

In an age of global information sharing through computers, it may be high time for zoos around the world to interact on zoo safety issues. Perhaps it used to be there were different kinds of zoos in different regions of the world, and the boundaries of what was a zoo and what was still animals out in the wild differed from region to region.

Violating trust, seems to be the name of the game some times, when visitors and people in various capacities at zoos, cross over the line of the rules of the zoo or their animal interfacing training. Often, when an awry incident involving violence on the part animals does occur, some of the blame of the chain of events before the attack, is due to the boundary crossing.

Today, mid 2025, it may be the era where zoos have in their design, no matter what boundaries are crossed, such as climbing over a fence marked do not enter, sticking a hand through a fence to feed or pet an animal, falling into an animal's area, animal broke through a fence, flood occurred and waters rose high enough the animal spilled out on top over the fence, or just negligence, mismanagement, and decrepit protection structures because the zoo got old, no matter what the scenario, it is 99.999% impossible for any kind of interface that appears endangering to occur.

Computers now can list the possibilities, each zoo can have a computer system, with an ongoing list of could be possibilities and the latest news break, and use computer assisted management systems to ensure the entire zoo is maintained. If a gate latch is compromised, the computer sounds a beep and gives the location in less than an instant after it happens; it might even be able to relock or secure a gate or other protective mechanism. Of course involving cameras in the system is pretty evident.

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems for zoos seems a plausible solution. Many solutions exist.

Possibilities Around the Shores of Wakkanai

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:56:35 +0100

This is one where it might not be immediately clear, what presence singlar or plural is there in and around the shores near Wakkanai, Japan. An area known as the northernmost.
This mght be a case of to say, or not say/ be silent, however, complete silence might not mark what it is the subject matter is.
There are two photos at the link here: https://kujira110.com/?p=151
Stranding Network Hokkaido
Discovery/Report December 2008/ January 2009
Latitude, longitude: 45-15-58.8N 141-36-13.6E (WGS84)
Length just over 12 feet
It appears the idiosyncratic T-shaped tail is still intact.

What happened?, and what might be there to make it happen?
-Deterioration rates and large amounts of physiological components disappearance rates, might be separate.

Theories might include:

An animal significantly larger than it exists
An animal related to it exists
An animal unrelated to it exists
A competitor that evolved that might fallinto one or two categores of the two immediate above
Bears are known to be in area, however, to meet the size demands to enable the possibilities, likely not an everyday sight; bears can be swimmers
Animals may be present in the area that are not in the typical zoo
Extinct animals not extinct, or a descendant?

The Situation of Frequent Pit Bull Attacks Persists. Dog Sitting. ...

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:25:14 +0100

It has been about a year and a half since a post in this animal attacks blog has been made. It is with dismay that the story essentially repeats itself.
Earlier this summer, the city of Baltimore had a story about a dog attack on a woman during a clear night of enviable weather and conditions. About 9pm, perfect timing to be out on the town, Pit Bulls attack several people, the woman in her early 50s fatally while on foot.
Here is what some news sources might not tell you, but might be a part of the larger situation. The area of the city the attack happened in, is in about the poorest and in some spots most desolate. Perhaps due to economic conditions, some areas of Baltimore have been between regularly and rapidly detioriorating. Sections that were already in trouble generally have not gotten any better.
In those kinds of city constructs, one might see where the chance that an able and dangerous dog, can escape its original owner, such as the owner became older and overslept, losing control of the pet; fenced in areas became weakened, where dogs could escape; dog owners might have been ill, arrested, under the influence of alcohol, drugs, narcotics, legal medicine; or just neglect.
Meanwhile, the months of June and July this year saw other Pit Bull attacks in other spots of the Country. Articles on the net have indicated that a number of these attacks took place where someone was house sitting for the dogs.
Older folks that might not be as quick and nimble, have fallen. Very young children victims as well.

Solutions:

Perhaps more protocols, official and unofficial, need to be in place, to preempt the sort of attacks that have been happening.

In my opinion, there is no such thing as a stray pit bull; somewhere down the line, the dog was acquired, later it became stray, usually not for very long. It would be kind of odd for a Pit Bull to have been running through a city for months at a time. Reference the June 2024 Baltimore attack.

What do you mean a 6 year old boy had his face attacked (reference July 2024 Loraine, Ohio)? How many times over the past 20 years has that situation happened? As soon as the adults leave, the trust in the dog has been built up, [then] the attack happens. It is clear that is usually the scenario. That scenario, needs not to exist.

Trends have been caught.

What may be slightly out of line to say, but may be a vIable solutIon to some of the might be sitUations- if a Pit Bull or dangerous dog (German Shephard, Rottweiler, Doberman, etc.,) gets driven into an area, such as a city, especially to a remote night spot like a drinking club or liquor lounge, where the nearby surrounding is dim and desolate, the owner leaves the car, leaves a window slightly down, enough for the dog to get out while they're in the club drinking, or the dog hopped out while the door was opening or closing, or worse yet, drove in the city like a terrorist and let the dog run wild, that dog better have a collar, or chip insertion, or something that identifies the owner, ideally with a tracker. If it does have a collar/tracker/identifier, neglect of the pet needs enforcing more. If it doesn't, usage of collar/tracker/identifier needs to be enforced more.

Dog Attacks: Recurrent Human Fatalities Ought to Be a Thing of the Past

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 01:47:16 +0100

Centuries ago, communities, towns, and civilizations figured out that they need to fence off dangerous animals, such as lions, tigers, hyenas, and rhinos. For animals that are tougher to craft protective devices and devises, like snakes or large birds, perhaps the move was to move to a different area. Dogs are no exception. Post year 2000, the dog is generally accepted to be a human-friendly animal. However, the track record that some aspects of the dog world has established, is that some dogs remain a serious danger. The line in the sand should be drawn, it may involve accepting the fact that certain dogs, especially that have the reputation for proclivity to attack, need to be worked with in certain ways.

Pit bulls freely running up and down the street in the neighborhood, for example, should not be a situation that exists in civilized areas.

Recent emergencies:

A 20s year old woman died and another injured in Surrey, just south of London in UK, last Friday, the 13th, 2023
7 year girl attacked, killed by pit bull, January 6, sometime after about 6pm, 2023, Louisiana
80 year old woman killed October 2022 in San Bernadino CA; dogs were from a nearby house, reports say
8 year old boy attacked by pit bull, Indio CA, September 2022; incident inside of a house

Global Animal Attack Roundup July 11th 2022 Shows Only a Handful of Kinds of Animals

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 03:23:39 +0100

Published July 11th EST
Once again, after investigating other stories outside the big ones, there are too many animal attacks to count and briefly place in one post.
What is clear is that dog accountability has got to be or become something in the wave of the future, just like cell phones. It might be a collar of some sort, identifying the owner, an electronic tracer and alert system, must be on certain dogs necks, or a nanosized (to avoid animal cruelty) mechanism be embedded somewhere on or in the animal, at all times, and it is the LAW.
Usually in these times, a big incident involves major injury or loss of life.

The roundup:

Dogs [Perth Australia within past few days dog attacks family; Harris County TX man attacked by 3 dogs somewhere in the last 10 days of June last month]
Kangaroos - Australia
Crocodiles/alligators [W Papua Indonesia.. man eventually found in 'bulging' stomach post boating, end of June a few days ago].
Sharks- Egypt; Florida; Australia [Taylor County FL, female teen had leg amputation, within recent weeks. Sydney, Australia incident back in February of this year. Red sea area of Egypt recent past few weeks, Austrian and Romanian women victim.]
Large cats

Leopards- especially India
Mountain lions

Hybrids, (such as wolf/dog), and unknown, are also concerns.

Shark Attack Beachside Monterey Bay CA June 2022

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 01:38:39 +0100

Written June 22, 2022 EST

It seems like it never ends, a saying. No matter how man precautions, are set in place, some creatures figure out how to be the embodiment of the unexpected. Of course continuing to improve safety measures is supported and encouraged.

Near an area called Lovers Point, quite scenic, a shark attacked about midmorning earlier today, Wednesday. Fortunately the victim sustained only minor injuries.

From a birds eye view, the attack, and prerequisite shark path of travel, if indeed it was actually a shark, was in the inlet inward hook area of the California coast, with Santa Cruz and Capitola at the north part and Monterey at the south.

Orange County Florida Area Deals With Bear Attacks

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 23:25:23 +0100

How high is a high number when it comes to bear attacks and sightings?,- may all be held relative. Going back to the time of Florida first settlements from Europe in about the 1500s. And bear attacks before that, and so forth. A notion is the untamed wild might have gotten more civilized today. Currently, for the Florida area, bears might not be anything way out of the ordinary. In the past few months, according to local news sources, it looks like there has been a bear appearing in a residential area about every few weeks.
How? Why? What is the prevention method? Are among questions asked for the public safety in the region.

Last night, in Apopka, FL, a black bear was caught on camera chasing a couple walking their dog right on up to their house doorstep, and seemed to stopped there, as if to say, the night is ours, indoors is where human should be.

Black bears ipso facto can blend into the black of night, enhancing their danger, as more difficult to spot to preempt attack.

Dog Attacks in the Limelight

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 04:57:54 +0100

There may be more to the saying dogs are man's best friend than most men today sit and discuss in ordinary banter. Nevertheless, maintaining a common sense and wise balance in precautions that should be taken, can help minimize dog attack incidents.
There are a number of websites that are devoted to animal attacks now. After reaching out, we might provide links to those resources somewhere on this blog page.
Reiterating caution number 1:
Extra cautions should be taken around very young children. Animals realize the vulnerabilities in toddler age and size humans. Brains of animals are not the same as human beings. They are structured differently. The signal that says attack, does not work like the human mind. Dog training aside. Preparations to preempt worse case attack scenario needs to be in place at all times, to include just not having large vicious dogs around children.

So far in 2022, there are several dog attacks that have made headlines. There is an estimated 600 fatalities in the US from 2005 to today, 2022, that are known and recorded. The purpose of having dogs, is not so those incidents would emerge, which is why ramping up dog attack prevention methods, such as applicable increase of dog training is important.

Reinforcing to Remember Bears Can Open Doors

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 04:09:42 +0100

Open doors to prosperity? Stocks in a ball team?
No- bears can physically open a door, like your house door, camping tent, car or truck door.
Keep them locked if you are inside, especially in bear territory.
Within the past few days, a bear was found pillaging the inside of a car looking for some gum drops. Reference, Pigeon Forge, TN.
The story sounds too frivol to waste writing a story about, except, recalling about a decade ago a spate in bear attacks; safe side is reinforce the advice that could save a life as outdoor vacation season sets in.

Written published on 6/25th