Animal attack on humans

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This one is pretty funny:

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Fair warning: the figures are gruesome

Fatal domestic pig attack: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12024-021-00376-y

Fatal donkey bite on a child: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12024-020-00302-8

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Coati bites:



www.researchgate.net/publication/49693499_Coati_Nasua_nasua_Attacks_on_Humans_Case_Report/figures

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Bite wound and mauling of a zookeeper by a gorilla

The majority of bite wounds that we encounter in the emergency department are caused by dogs, cats and humans, but bite injuries can be caused by a variety of animals. Here, we describe a case of bite wound and trauma caused by a large gorilla (Western lowland gorilla) weighing over 170 kg. Gorilla bites are rare, and the patient had an open fracture of the right distal radioulna in addition to multiple bite wounds. Treatment required careful consideration of gorilla antigenicity and a literature review to guide the selection of appropriate antimicrobial agents. Furthermore, trauma inflicted by large animals tends to require systemic traumatological screening, and patients can develop acute stress disorder because of a fear of being attacked again; therefore, early psychiatric intervention is important.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10425709/

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Aug 21, 2020 10:51:43 GMT 5 Infinity Blade said:

This is another report of a freshwater crocodile attack on a human, which I also posted in the freshwater crocodile profile; it was documented a year after the study posted in the OP was published.

The crocodile attack took place on 18 April 2009 off a rocky beach of Northern Lake Argyle, ~4 km south of the boat ramp (16°09 ́25 ́S, 128°44 ́16 ́E). It was a cloudy day with a mean maximum day temperature of 34°C. The victim was a 52 yr old male (173 cm, 85 kg). On the day of the incident he and a group of friends and family had anchored their boat and made a few dives and short swims in ~8 m deep water, 12-13 m from the shore. At 1600 hrs (about 2hrs prior to sunset under bright early afternoon light), after being in the water for approximately five minutes, the victim lay on his back on the water surface for 30 seconds, and had then gone into a backward somersault to commence swimming back to the boat. The attack took place halfway through the somersault.

Once attacked, the victim was disoriented and had difficulty maintaining buoyancy. He thought initially that the propeller of a passing boat had hit him and, although he had difficulty moving his left hand, he managed to swim to the boat anchored ashore. Within an hour of the attack, the victim was taken to the Lake Argyle Medical Muster station and subsequently to the general hospital in Kununurra. He had puncture marks to the left side of his chest, cuts (regarded as claw marks) in the right shoulder blade and three deep slashes to the left underarm (Figs 2A and 2B). He also had three cracked ribs from the force of the attack. The stitches were left for 2-3 weeks and the wounds were healed completely after approximately three months, with some lingering tenderness. Oral antibiotics were only given for the first 10 days.

publications.rzsnsw.org.au/doi/pdf/10.7882/AZ.2011.049

One of the things that shocked me were the cuts to the right shoulder blade. These were regarded as claw marks. This is the only documented incident I am aware of where a crocodilian's claws actually caused bodily harm.

Having received a superficial laceration from an extremely playful dog’s nail since then (which I still have a picture of), I can say I’m more confident with these injuries really being from a croc’s claws, even if only incidentally/accidentally.

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Man that got bit by a baboon.

Further evidence that baboons have really gnarly bites. It looks like its an inch wide. I don't think a similar sized canine or cat would be able to inflict such a bad laceration so quickly.



witness.co.za/lnn/1155022/baboon-bite-rips-mans-shoulder-open-in-marloth-park/

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Also it just me or is that baboon bite wound nearly as wide as the one inflicted by the gorilla?

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Jul 6, 2024 9:15:37 GMT 5 Supercommunist said:

Also it just me or is that baboon bite wound nearly as wide as the one inflicted by the gorilla?

I can now use ImageJ to measure things now that I'm working on my Master's thesis. If anyone has any idea how thick that man's upper arm is from the front to the back, I can use that to set up a scale bar and measure the width of that laceration. The gorilla bite wound has a ruler on it already, so I can probably use that for reference.

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Can't find much info for how thick that portion of the arm is (google keeps bringing up shoulder width) but according to this random source, average adult male arm circumference is 34.3 cm.

gitnux.org/average-arm-size/

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Jul 7, 2024 6:12:14 GMT 5 Supercommunist said:

Can't find much info for how thick that portion of the arm is (google keeps bringing up shoulder width) but according to this random source, average adult male arm circumference is 34.3 cm.

gitnux.org/average-arm-size/

Using C = 2*pi*r, 34.3 cm = 2 * 3.14 * r

34.3 = 6.28r

r=5.46 cm

d=10.9 cm


Here's where I set the scale for the man's upper arm diameter (it was just about the narrowest down where I could get it to be).


This gives us a laceration width of ~2.32 cm.



The gorilla bite laceration I posted above seems to be about 1 cm in width.

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Jul 7, 2024 7:54:58 GMT 5 Infinity Blade said:

Jul 7, 2024 6:12:14 GMT 5 Supercommunist said:

Can't find much info for how thick that portion of the arm is (google keeps bringing up shoulder width) but according to this random source, average adult male arm circumference is 34.3 cm.

gitnux.org/average-arm-size/

Using C = 2*pi*r, 34.3 cm = 2 * 3.14 * r

34.3 = 6.28r

r=5.46 cm

d=10.9 cm


Here's where I set the scale for the man's upper arm diameter (it was just about the narrowest down where I could get it to be).


This gives us a laceration width of ~2.32 cm.



The gorilla bite laceration I posted above seems to be about 1 cm in width.

Crazy. I have always argued that baboons and mandrills are much more formidable than chimps and gorillas at parity, but I never thought I baboon could inflict more tissue damage than a gorilla.

I am aware that the gorilla also damaged the keeper's bone but imagine how fearsome a gorilla sized baboon would be.

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Sea lion bite. Very nsfw

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0736467919307826