When animals attack...I once, accidentally, punched a racoon.
It had wandered into my tent, I was half asleep and thought it was a mate pratting around. There was a yelp and then all hell broke loose.
What have you been attacked by?
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chthonic, Thu 2 Jun 2005, 9:39)
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BonxiesI was visiting Unst (the northernmost Shetland island) with my family as a young lad. We were walking to the northernmost point of the island and predictably I was running ahead. I heard a flapping of wings behind me, turned and came face to face with an Arctic Skua (locally known as a bonxie) diving at me to protect its territory.
As a small child, seeing a large bird of prey at a range of about a metre was reasonably scary and so I dropped to the ground and screamed. Naturally, my family some distance behind me assumed that I'd run over a cliff, this was my final scream as I fell to my doom and so they came running. The inevitable consequence of which was that another bonxie dived at my mother, hit her on the side of the head and knocked her over.
(, Fri 3 Jun 2005, 14:34, Reply)
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