5 amazing stories of how people triumphed over wild animals

Do not try this domaChelovek - the top of the food chain. Well, it's nice to think so, but actually in the melee with a bear or a tiger will clear who the winner. At least, almost always. Almost - because some people without guns and other human tricks managed to win the most dangerous predators, with such methods, which an ordinary person and would never come.

1. Carl Akeley blocked leopard vozduh



Carl Akeley was a taxidermist, an inventor, a biologist, environmentalist and photographer. In animals, he understood very well. A man was challenging - especially loved to tempt fate.



During an expedition to Africa Ackley came across a wild leopard. Leopard, of course, attacked the man. Ackley same reason did not shoot him, though he had a rifle with him was (maybe ran out of ammo).

It seemed to end, but Ackley kept his head: his left hand, he grabbed the leopard by the throat and shoved to the right in the mouth. The cat must have first surprised that dinner oddly behaved, and then began to choke. Ackley, ignoring the pain, the hand pushes deeper and deeper into the throat of the beast, and as a result he was able to kill the predator.

2. Richard and Angela Moyer had a fight with a bear in his gostinoy

Richard Moyer lived in Perry County, Pennsylvania. At three o'clock in the morning he called the dog back into the house when from somewhere and there was a bear attacked a man right in the doorway of his house.

We repeat: Moyer hunted, not walking in the protected forest, he even on the roadside in the forest is not moved out. He just stood in the doorway of his house, and a dog called sleepily. And then came under bear.

The noise rushed his wife Angela and dog instead saw a huge predator. She managed to distract the bear from her husband, but, unfortunately, bears, who want to have a snack, distracted only more annoying food - so that her husband threw a bear, but pounced on Angela.

Of course, to get Richard in a bear hug again did not want to, but also to give him a wife did not want to. So Richard kicked kicked the bear in the yard (ask - what? He does not know), and the predator must be zonked by the audacity of the victim, fled in disgrace.

Angela and Richard were still alive, though they were seriously injured. Yes, we know what you want to ask - was in order.

3. David Parker cougar killed a pen nozhikom



In August of 2002, 61-year-old David Parker was walking at night in British Columbia. Downpour began, and to escape, Parker ducked under a rock overhang. And he found himself face to face with a hefty puma. She was delighted (dinner!), And attacked the man.

Parker knew instantly that he had a chance to survive there - we must at all costs protect the jugular vein. But the way he has chosen to protect the unusual: the cougar had hit him in the skull, and a flap of skin from the forehead down to the human eye, almost blinding him. And then because of another big cat hitting Parker fell and shattered on the rocks the cheekbone and jaw. Then the cat, of course, again attacked the victim and ...

I got a pocket knife in the throat. Parker used the minimum time that he had to get a knife from his pocket, open it and get ready to leap. Surprisingly, he broke the neck of the beast through a tiny dull blade.

Parker, despite the serious injury, walked about a kilometer more to get help. Of course, the face was an ugly scar, but Parker is still alive, and the cougar - no.

4. Eric Nerhus killed the shark with a knife, as she had in rtu

This story begins where most of the other end 41-year-old diver from Australia Eric Nerhusa shark swallowed.

Nerhus submerged off Cape Howe and peacefully swam and collected abalone (a type of shell), when next to him appeared the great white shark 3, 5 meters long and swallowed it like a sandwich. Well, not all: in the mouth shark turned his head, shoulders and one arm.

Imagine yourself in this situation - you do not even realize that you were attacked, just the world in an instant became dark, and you're already halfway to someone's stomach. Most of us can not even fill a wetsuit to somehow ruin shark appetite, but Nerhus was not taken aback.

The diver started to feel the head of a shark with his free hand, he found the eye and with all his might hit it abalone. And suddenly freed. Experts say that the shark let go Nerhusa as soon as I realized that he did not seal. Brad - rather, it was just painful. But we prefer to think that she stepped out of respect.

5. Jin Mo scored a grizzly to smerti

The main thing to know about the grizzly bear, never turns out to be close to them if you are not some superhero comics, which can put a bear with his bare hands. If we talk about Jin Mo, it is probably just such.

In 1999, 70-year-old Mo hunted near Kodiak, Alaska. And I was ambushed by 340-pound grizzly-bear-. The rifle was far away, and the only weapon Mo was a hunting knife. Vnesёm clear: a bear with four of the blade on each paw. It is clear that the bear was sure of victory.

She grabbed a piece of the right hand of Mo and knocked him to the ground. Fortunately, Mo miraculously managed to stab the animal's neck, for which enraged bear pulled his piece of flesh from his leg - and ran away.

Then the bear again rushed to the attack, and was ready to kill him, but Mo mustered all his strength and naked (literally) with his left hand at full speed, hit the bear in the eye - she fell down dead. Mo gently out from under her, and crawled to the rifle, just in case twice fired at the beast.

Mo did not have any special tactics (at least, until he took a rifle) - he acted on pure instinct, without thinking. There was no time to think. And it saved him.

After the battle, Mo had to crawl more about three kilometers from the nearest human settlement, where he assisted.

via factroom.ru