What animals have you been “ attacked” by

The one that's really memorable for me is when I almost got bitten in the waist by a donkey, but I can still feel its teeths and I don't know how to describe the feeling.
 
Nandito said:
The one that's really memorable for me is when I almost got bitten in the waist by a donkey, but I can still feel its teeths and I don't know how to describe the feeling.
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I'd imagine that's like getting bitten by giant nail clippers since that is how an equine's teeth are designed. I have seen videos of people being bitten by zebras and horses.
 
Fairly recently my cat tried to wake me up by vowing my face, narrowly missed my eyeball and now I have a scar on the “inside” of my eyelid.
 
I've had "disagreements" with brown hyena, white rhino, honey-badger, nyala, warthog, vervet monkeys and chacma baboons.
If you'd like me to in detail on any of these let me know.
 
Nix said:
I've had "disagreements" with brown hyena, white rhino, honey-badger, nyala, warthog, vervet monkeys and chacma baboons.
If you'd like me to in detail on any of these let me know.
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Brown Hyena, White Rhino and Honey Badger?!? Please tell us more!
 
birdsandbats said:
Brown Hyena, White Rhino and Honey Badger?!? Please tell us more!
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Let's start with the Rhino:
Me and my family visited a game ranger relative on a farm in the North West province, We we're a group of about 20 people and would not all fit into the game-viewer when it was time for a game-drive.
Eventually we decided that the the adults would take the game-viewer and the children (I was in Primary School at the time) would take a rinky-dink old golf-cart.
We set out into the infamous bush and mere minutes in two adult White Rhinos appeared dangerously close to the golf-cart, clearly scared, the driver, a cousin of mine, sped off. The Rhino wasn't having this and charged after us hitting the hind of the cart slightly before retreating back into the bush.

The hyena:
One of my most recent, and thrilling stories. Early one morning me and a friend were on our cattle farm in the Marico mountains near the Botswana border, preparing for a hike. The house sits 200m from a watering hole on a steep koppie, This would be our hiking route, to the watering hole and up the koppie.
The watering hole was a treasure trove of spoors as it was the only large accessible water source in the area, spotting hyena spoor, I followed immediately, as a naive animal-lover would do.
Up the Koppie we found the spoor to seem fresher, this thing wasn't far off, Making the best of the situation we decided to turn back, but what do we find!
it was following us! Hyenas spoors all around where we had previously walked.
flabbergasted, we froze immediately and as if the moment had been timed we noticed ears poking out from behind a tree stump. There it was. 10 meters away.
We stared at each other for what felt like hours but was probably closer to a few minutes, finally catching up to our senses we jolted back to the house as fast as possible to retell our unbelievable experience.

The badger:
This happened to me at the ripe age of 9, in the Etosha National Park of Namibia.
late one evening at the Halali camp, my family and a group of friends had prepared dinner, Lamb Chops and Potato Salad, Yummy! So obviously when someone dropped there full plate into the sand I wouldn't stand by and let it be wasted and hurriedly sped towards the fallen food, but to my utter dismay so was a honey badger who'd been scavenging the park earlier the evening. Even though the food was clearly no long consumable my young mind was not letting this badger eat our hard-earned chops! There I was face-to-face with nature toughest animal, and with one snarl and a slight lift of the lip from the badger, I sped to the tent as if I had just seen the devil himself.
 
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Nix said:
Let's start with the Rhino:
Me and my family visited a game ranger relative on a farm in the North West province, We we're a group of about 20 people and would not all fit into the game-viewer when it was time for a game-drive.
Eventually we decided that the the adults would take the game-viewer and the children (I was in Primary School at the time) would take a rinky-dink old golf-cart.
We set out into the infamous bush and mere minutes in two adult White Rhinos appeared dangerously close to the golf-cart, clearly scared, the driver, a cousin of mine, sped off. The Rhino wasn't having this and charged after us hitting the hind of the cart slightly before retreating back into the bush.

The hyena:
One of my most recent, and thrilling stories. Early one morning me and a friend were on our cattle farm in the Marico mountains near the Botswana border, preparing for a hike. The house sits 200m from a watering hole on a steep koppie, This would be our hiking route, to the watering hole and up the koppie.
The watering hole was a treasure trove of spoors as it was the only large accessible water source in the area, spotting hyena spoor, I followed immediately, as a naive animal-lover would do.
Up the Koppie we found the spoor to seem fresher, this thing wasn't far off, Making the best of the situation we decided to turn back, but what do we find!
it was following us! Hyenas spoors all around where we had previously walked.
flabbergasted, we froze immediately and as if the moment had been timed we noticed ears poking out from behind a tree stump. There it was. 10 meters away.
We stared at each other for what felt like hours but was probably closer to a few minutes, finally catching up to our senses we jolted back to the house as fast as possible to retell our unbelievable experience.

The badger:
This happened to me at the ripe age of 9, in the Etosha National Park of Namibia.
late one evening at the Halali camp, my family and a group of friends had prepared dinner, Lamb Chops and Potato Salad, Yummy! So obviously when someone dropped there full plate into the sand I wouldn't stand by and let it be wasted and hurriedly sped towards the fallen food, but to my utter dismay so was a honey badger who'd been scavenging the park earlier the evening. Even though the food was clearly no long consumable my young mind was not letting this badger eat our hard-earned chops! There I was face-to-face with nature toughest animal, and with one snarl and a slight lift of the lip from the badger, I sped to the tent as if I had just seen the devil himself.
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You’re so lucky, and not just because you survived! I would definitely like to get close to any of these creatures.
 
Nix said:
Let's start with the Rhino:
Me and my family visited a game ranger relative on a farm in the North West province, We we're a group of about 20 people and would not all fit into the game-viewer when it was time for a game-drive.
Eventually we decided that the the adults would take the game-viewer and the children (I was in Primary School at the time) would take a rinky-dink old golf-cart.
We set out into the infamous bush and mere minutes in two adult White Rhinos appeared dangerously close to the golf-cart, clearly scared, the driver, a cousin of mine, sped off. The Rhino wasn't having this and charged after us hitting the hind of the cart slightly before retreating back into the bush.

The hyena:
One of my most recent, and thrilling stories. Early one morning me and a friend were on our cattle farm in the Marico mountains near the Botswana border, preparing for a hike. The house sits 200m from a watering hole on a steep koppie, This would be our hiking route, to the watering hole and up the koppie.
The watering hole was a treasure trove of spoors as it was the only large accessible water source in the area, spotting hyena spoor, I followed immediately, as a naive animal-lover would do.
Up the Koppie we found the spoor to seem fresher, this thing wasn't far off, Making the best of the situation we decided to turn back, but what do we find!
it was following us! Hyenas spoors all around where we had previously walked.
flabbergasted, we froze immediately and as if the moment had been timed we noticed ears poking out from behind a tree stump. There it was. 10 meters away.
We stared at each other for what felt like hours but was probably closer to a few minutes, finally catching up to our senses we jolted back to the house as fast as possible to retell our unbelievable experience.

The badger:
This happened to me at the ripe age of 9, in the Etosha National Park of Namibia.
late one evening at the Halali camp, my family and a group of friends had prepared dinner, Lamb Chops and Potato Salad, Yummy! So obviously when someone dropped there full plate into the sand I wouldn't stand by and let it be wasted and hurriedly sped towards the fallen food, but to my utter dismay so was a honey badger who'd been scavenging the park earlier the evening. Even though the food was clearly no long consumable my young mind was not letting this badger eat our hard-earned chops! There I was face-to-face with nature toughest animal, and with one snarl and a slight lift of the lip from the badger, I sped to the tent as if I had just seen the devil himself.
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The rhino story sounds like something from a children’s cartoon, that’s absolutely incredible!
 
Nix said:
I've had "disagreements" with brown hyena, white rhino, honey-badger, nyala, warthog, vervet monkeys and chacma baboons.
If you'd like me to in detail on any of these let me know.
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There’s no baboon I like better than a decent Chacma. Tell us more…
 
Zoofan15 said:
There’s no baboon I like better than a decent Chacma. Tell us more…
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Ahh good ol' Chacmas, The reason I will never like baboons.
I've had run-ins with chacmas since the start of my rondevu on the farm, They pull out thatch roofs, attack your dog, chase your cattle off, steal your food and worst of all, break into your closet and ransack your room.
 
Not quite me, but my cousin, who was standing next to me, claims that he was 'attacked' by a Chestnut-eared Aracari that bolted directly towards him from a tree hole a few feet away. I think it was just leaving its nest.
 
Dogs mostly, but I've also been attacked by seagulls (or herring gulls if you're picky about names) on a few occasions. In my home town, a large number of seagulls nest on the roof of a gym near where I live, there's a supermarket and a McDonald's nearby, so for years they've sustained themsleves on trash from the McDonald's bins that don't get emptied very often. Anyway, during the Summer months once their chicks have hatched the seagulls become hyper-aggressive towards anything that goes near their nesting site, even if you physically can't get up to that roof, so you can't really walk through that area without being dive-bombed.
 
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