﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>When Animals Attack from Newser</title><description /><link>http://www.newser.com/</link><copyright>2008 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:34:10 CST</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/43893/boar-crashes-church-breakfast.html?refid=rss_all_default</guid><title>Boar Crashes Church Breakfast</title><description>Mothers and their children were eating breakfast in a Frankfurt church yesterday when a wild boar come crashing in through a glass door,  Der Spiegel  reports. The sow ran feverishly around the room and exited the same way it came in, leaving moms and kids standing on chairs and tables for cover. They were rattled, but unhurt; the evangelical church offered "psychological support" to any in need.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/43893/boar-crashes-church-breakfast.html?refid=rss_all_default</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:48:53 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/41941/jogger-gives-rabid-fox-a-run.html?refid=rss_all_default</guid><title>Jogger Gives Rabid Fox a Run</title><description>An Arizona woman ran about a mile with a rabid fox’s jaws clamped around her arm, the  Prescott Daily Courier  reports. A fox attacked Michelle Felicepta, 30, while she was jogging Monday, biting deeply into her arm. Knowing the fox would need to be tested, she ran the mile back to her car, choking the animal still chewing on her arm.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/41941/jogger-gives-rabid-fox-a-run.html?refid=rss_all_default</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:29:27 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/41425/liger-mauls-handler-to-death.html?refid=rss_all_default</guid><title>Liger Mauls Handler to Death</title><description>An animal handler at an Oklahoma refuge died yesterday after being attacked by a liger—a hybrid of a lion and a tiger—during the animal’s feeding Wednesday, the  Tulsa World  reports. Safari’s Animal Sanctuary in suburban Broken Arrow will launch an investigation into whether volunteer Peter Getz, 32, broke safety protocols by opening the liger’s cage during feeding.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/41425/liger-mauls-handler-to-death.html?refid=rss_all_default</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:48:45 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/40932/tigers-turn-to-humans-after-floods.html?refid=rss_all_default</guid><title>Tigers Turn to Humans After Floods</title><description>First came the floods, now come the tigers. A remote village in West Bengal is dealing with a soaring number of tiger attacks since the powerful predators were driven across the border from Bangladesh by flooding. Villagers report 15 attacks already this year, six of them fatal, according to the  Guardian . Crab fisherman wading alone through shallow waters are most often the victims, pounced on by tigers who drag them into the forest.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/40932/tigers-turn-to-humans-after-floods.html?refid=rss_all_default</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 6:53:12 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/40632/life-with-wolves-has-couple-in-own-reality-tv-pack.html?refid=rss_all_default</guid><title>Life With Wolves Has Couple in Own Reality-TV Pack</title><description>A British authority on wolves is taking his fiancée into the wild, and bringing cameras along,  Newsweek  reports. Shaun Ellis, who has spent years living with wolf packs, coaxed Helen Jeffs from her job as a schoolteacher to live on a wildlife refuge where they eat raw meat and cavort with their lupine brethren for the Animal Planet show  Living With the Wolfman .</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/40632/life-with-wolves-has-couple-in-own-reality-tv-pack.html?refid=rss_all_default</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:57:09 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/40473/author-offers-creepy-look-at-critters-with-taste-for-blood.html?refid=rss_all_default</guid><title>Author Offers Creepy Look at Critters With Taste for Blood</title><description>With Halloween nearly upon us, the author of new book on bloodsucking creatures—vampire bats, bedbugs, leeches, and the like—leads the  New York Times  on a sanguivore safari. The world's bloodthirsty creatures vary enormously, as Bill Schutt details in  Dark Banquet , and some are mere dabblers, but many specialists have evolved similar equipment: clot busters, natural painkillers—and very sharp teeth.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/40473/author-offers-creepy-look-at-critters-with-taste-for-blood.html?refid=rss_all_default</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 5:21:25 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/36261/crazed-police-horse-kills-football-fan.html?refid=rss_all_default</guid><title>Crazed Police Horse Kills Football Fan</title><description>An elderly San Francisco 49ers football fan suffered a fatal head injury when he was knocked to the ground by a runaway police horse, reports the  San Francisco Chronicle . The horse panicked when a white plastic bag blowing in the wind became entangled in his reins. He tumbled to the ground, unseating his rider before racing off and careening into the fan, 78, who died yesterday in a local hospital.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/36261/crazed-police-horse-kills-football-fan.html?refid=rss_all_default</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 8:07:31 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/34807/tenn-dad-saves-son-from-bear.html?refid=rss_all_default</guid><title>Tenn. Dad Saves Son From Bear</title><description>A desperate dad pried open the jaws of a black bear and pelted him with rocks as the animal attacked his 8-year-old son during a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. "The bear was staring at me," said the boy, Evan Pala, who was near a creek when the attack occurred Monday. "He stood up and jumped on me. Before he even got me I called, 'Bear!'"</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/34807/tenn-dad-saves-son-from-bear.html?refid=rss_all_default</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 4:53:17 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/34473/a-shark-hater-fesses-up.html?refid=rss_all_default</guid><title>A Shark-Hater Fesses Up</title><description>Sharks were once eminently despicable creatures. Remember  Jaws ? Now, though, perceptions have shifted—they’re seen as endangered, misunderstood animals who chomp humans only when they mistake them for seals. (That's why they take one bite and "sheepishly" move on.) It's a source of great disappointment to Joe Queenan, who laments in the  Los Angeles Times  that he just can't find an acceptable replacement for his hatred.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/34473/a-shark-hater-fesses-up.html?refid=rss_all_default</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 8:34:30 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>