Animlas are raising their consiousness

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BERLIN (Reuters) - An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.

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The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local police spokesman said on Thursday.

With the squirrel still hanging from her hand, the woman ran onto the street in panic, where she managed to shake it off.

The animal then entered a building site and jumped on a construction worker, injuring him on the hand and arm, before he managed to fight it off with a measuring pole.

"After that, the squirrel went into the 72-year-old man's garden and massively attacked him on the arms, hand and thigh," the spokesman said. "Then he killed it with his crutch."

The spokesman said experts thought the attack may have been linked to the mating season or because the squirrel was ill.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070614/ ... 5e080.html

[marykmusic]

Are they organizing to strike back? --MaryK

[MacCruiskeen]

It's certainly strange to see an animal as tiny and helpless as a squirrel making a such a deliberate and sustained attempt to attack human beings. (Three separate people in three separate places!). If the animal was just "ill", as the report suggests, then it's a peculiar kind of illness. Maybe someone disturbed a nest?

Last year, Jason Godesky wrote a fascinating and frankly heartbreaking post about the increasing frequency and intensity of elephant attacks on humans - and on other species...:

"... Gay Bradshaw, a psychologist at the environmental sciences program at Oregon State University [..] has studied the phenomenon that's come to be called "the Human-Elephant Conflict," even abbreviating it H.E.C. Since the mid-1990's, elephants around the world have begun what seems almost like an all-out war on humans. Hindus have long worshipped elephants as the incarnations of Ganesh, the god of wisdom, but recently, an Indian newspaper ran an article with the headline, "To Avoid Confrontation, Don't Worship Elephants. [...] It is not so singularly romantic as an elephant war on humans, though; it would be more accurate to simply say that the elephants are going insane. Besides the attacks on humans, elephants are also taking their rage out on other species. Since the mid-1990's, young elephant males from the Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinos."

http://anthropik.com/2006/10/elephant-men/

[cptmarginal]

Since the mid-1990's, young elephant males from the Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinos."

[Wombaticus Rex]

Dr. Rat! Scariest book I ever read when I was a kid. I should re-read it now that I'm older and much less mature.

http://www.thesustainablevillage.com/aw ... drRat.html