Dangerous Animal Incidents
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Re: Ranger saves little girl from lioness
This even made the news in the local daily paper 
God put me on earth to accomplish a certain amount of things. Right now I'm so far behind that I'll never die.
Man tells of escape from python's clutches
Man tells of escape from python's clutches
2013-05-24 22:13
Lusaka - A Zambian truck driver who was forced to kick, bite and stab his way from the clutches of a giant python, said on Friday he was lucky to be alive.
Kelvin Katoka, 25, unknowingly ran into the giant snake, while driving his excavator in the bush at a copper mine in north western Zambia.
"Within no time, the python was all over my body and it then threw me on the ground," he told AFP by phone from his hospital bed, where he has been recovering for nearly a month.
Rock pythons are Africa's largest snake and can grow up to 7m-long.
They have been known to kill and swallow whole antelope, wildebeest and even crocodiles.
Attacks on humans are rare.
Katoka managed to bite the python as it coiled around him and held on in a "long struggle".
"It then clicked to my mind that I had a small knife in my work suit pocket and quickly, I rushed for it," he recalled.
"I stabbed it in the sides of its body and slowly it started loosening itself but by then, I had become weak."
The snake once again wrapped itself around his body and "started to apply saliva all over my face in readiness to swallow me," he said.
Already weak, Katoka started vomiting blood.
"I started vomiting blood and I lost vision of what was happening and that was how I became unconscious," he said.
"It then coiled itself round my body to the extent that people could not see anything else apart from the python itself."
Two workmates luckily came to where he had been working in Mwininlunga, 840km, north west of Lusaka.
They killed the python, carried Katoka away and took him to hospital.
"From the day I was attacked, I have known that my life will never be the same. I have pain in the ribs and I am very weak."
"I am lucky to be alive, it's by the grace of the Lord, I thought I was gone," said Katoka.
- AFP
2013-05-24 22:13
Lusaka - A Zambian truck driver who was forced to kick, bite and stab his way from the clutches of a giant python, said on Friday he was lucky to be alive.
Kelvin Katoka, 25, unknowingly ran into the giant snake, while driving his excavator in the bush at a copper mine in north western Zambia.
"Within no time, the python was all over my body and it then threw me on the ground," he told AFP by phone from his hospital bed, where he has been recovering for nearly a month.
Rock pythons are Africa's largest snake and can grow up to 7m-long.
They have been known to kill and swallow whole antelope, wildebeest and even crocodiles.
Attacks on humans are rare.
Katoka managed to bite the python as it coiled around him and held on in a "long struggle".
"It then clicked to my mind that I had a small knife in my work suit pocket and quickly, I rushed for it," he recalled.
"I stabbed it in the sides of its body and slowly it started loosening itself but by then, I had become weak."
The snake once again wrapped itself around his body and "started to apply saliva all over my face in readiness to swallow me," he said.
Already weak, Katoka started vomiting blood.
"I started vomiting blood and I lost vision of what was happening and that was how I became unconscious," he said.
"It then coiled itself round my body to the extent that people could not see anything else apart from the python itself."
Two workmates luckily came to where he had been working in Mwininlunga, 840km, north west of Lusaka.
They killed the python, carried Katoka away and took him to hospital.
"From the day I was attacked, I have known that my life will never be the same. I have pain in the ribs and I am very weak."
"I am lucky to be alive, it's by the grace of the Lord, I thought I was gone," said Katoka.
- AFP
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Phew!
Looks like his tusk just dinged the window...
The foreigners aren't too concerned!
Looks like his tusk just dinged the window...
The foreigners aren't too concerned!
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Re: Dangerous Animal Incidents
the text at the bottom of the screen that tells of the elephant smashing the car widow of the tourists "passing by"
yeah right !!!!!!!!!
it was the elephant trying to pass by the tourists who should not have been there..
dumb asses................
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Ai...this just again one of that incidents that makes the smoke bursting from me behind
Still recovering from that other ellie incident and now this
Clearly yeT ANOTHER touristS that didn't read their rules and regulations of the Park, they are clearly over stepping the "ellie - safe zone"
Still recovering from that other ellie incident and now thisClearly yeT ANOTHER touristS that didn't read their rules and regulations of the Park, they are clearly over stepping the "ellie - safe zone"
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Couple hospitalised after lion cub 'fun'
News24
2013-06-11 09:11
Bloemfontein - A couple from Brits has been left seriously injured after apparently trying to play with a lion cub.
The pair, who had recently bought the lion, were both admitted to hospital and had to have surgery, reported Beeld.
Willie Jacobs of the Ukutula lodge near Brits said the lion cub had been bought from him by Manie and Angelique Visser, but the cub was still at their premises as the Vissers were waiting for some documents.
The lion was between 10-months-old and a year.
“I wasn’t here on Sunday but it sounds as if the lion wanted to play with Visser and the woman with him but a lion’s claws and teeth are sharp and they don’t know their own strength,” said Jacobs.
He said Ukutula staff had apparently tried to dissuade Manie Visser from going into the lion’s camp.
“The man apparently had lions before so they thought he knew what he was doing. And it was his lion.”
Visser tried to help his wife when the lion got hold of her, sustaining multiple bite wounds all over his body.
His wife was bitten on her leg.
Both are in a stable condition.
- News24
2013-06-11 09:11
Bloemfontein - A couple from Brits has been left seriously injured after apparently trying to play with a lion cub.
The pair, who had recently bought the lion, were both admitted to hospital and had to have surgery, reported Beeld.
Willie Jacobs of the Ukutula lodge near Brits said the lion cub had been bought from him by Manie and Angelique Visser, but the cub was still at their premises as the Vissers were waiting for some documents.
The lion was between 10-months-old and a year.
“I wasn’t here on Sunday but it sounds as if the lion wanted to play with Visser and the woman with him but a lion’s claws and teeth are sharp and they don’t know their own strength,” said Jacobs.
He said Ukutula staff had apparently tried to dissuade Manie Visser from going into the lion’s camp.
“The man apparently had lions before so they thought he knew what he was doing. And it was his lion.”
Visser tried to help his wife when the lion got hold of her, sustaining multiple bite wounds all over his body.
His wife was bitten on her leg.
Both are in a stable condition.
- News24