Tick eats man's ear!

Check out this picture of a tick inside a man's ear dining on the parts in his ear canal!

The Herald reports that the doctor "inserted a fibre-optic endoscope video into the man's outer ear canal and found the parasite, about 3 to 4mm long, with its eight legs wedged on the eardrum.

The tick, which had been feeding on blood from inside the ear, had caused extensive bruising. It was also "tightly attached" and wouldn't budge, even after framycetin drops were used to try to dislodge it.

Mr Hornibrook anaesthetised the vet's ear and dragged the tick out with a small hook" which apparently made every thing tickety-boo!

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Kayakers recall deadly crocodile attack in Africa

Not related to the story but you get the point. 

A story from the newspaper:

Kayakers recall deadly crocodile attack in Africa

For weeks, three kayakers exploring a series of rivers through the heart of Africa had come together in close defensive formation designed to ward off hippo and crocodile attacks whenever they paddled the quiet green glides between thundering stretches of whitewater.

The boaters - two Americans and a South African - traveled some 1600km of river this way, through the densest concentrations of man-killing wildlife in the world.

They were paddling in synchronous strokes, just over a metre from each other, on a quiet stretch of the Lukuga River in Congo when a crocodile slipped up from behind and ripped trip leader Hendri Coetzee from his tiny red plastic boat.

With no time to do anything but say "Oh, my God!" Coetzee was gone, hauled beneath the green water never to be seen again.

"The crocodile just pulled him right underwater," Chris Korbulic told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Reno, Nevada, where he was visiting his brother. "I think we both were just in complete shock and disbelief and absolutely horrified at what had just happened."

For about 20 seconds after the crocodile grabbed Coetzee by the shoulder and overturned his boat, the craft shook as the crocodile pulled him from the tight-fitting cockpit, Korbulic said.

Korbulic and Ben Stookesberry got off the river, composed themselves, then continued downstream, taking out at a village. Coetzee's body has never been found and he is presumed dead.

Stookesberry, 32, and Korbulic, 24, are world-class kayakers who have gone where no boat has gone before to navigate the melting snows of the Himalayas in Northern Pakistan and India, towering waterfalls in Brazil, and boulder-stewn creeks in Costa Rica, California and British Columbia.

With primary sponsorship from Eddie Bauer Inc.`s First Ascent line of outdoor gear, they had partnered with Coetzee, a top whitewater guide based in Uganda, to follow the White Nile, Lukuga and Congo rivers through snowcapped mountains, steaming jungles, and rolling hills covered in elephant grass.

They also hoped to bring attention to the crisis of millions of people dying from poor water quality in a region overflowing with water.

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Captured shark found to have a man inside

What's in my belly?

Caught shark found to have eaten a man

It's the stuff of the Jaws movie really.

A story about a shark eating a man.

And then being caught.

And then being cut up and the very dead many being removed from its stomach.

Here's the deal of what happened.

Humphrey Simmons, a Bahamian portfolio manager, now has a whale of tale to tell those who'll listen about the time he caught a tiger shark and it burped up a human leg.

When the fish was gutted, out popped a human body sans its head.

Says Mr Humpries about his unexpected catch of the day:

“We tied the rope around his tail fin, and pulled him towards the boat. We were going to cut the hook out of his mouth and let him go when he regurgitated a human foot — intact from the knee down.” The knee down you say?

As soon as they saw the foot, Simmons says, and smelled the "stink" coming from inside the shark's "huge" belly, they knew they had to bring the shark to shore.

And what did they find in the tiger shark's belly?

Here's the pictures. I sincerely warn you, the pictures you are about to see are pretty gross, not safe for work, and are not for general family viewing:

Read on for the gross and very NSFW pictures of what was in the shark's belly:

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Vet with dart gun v Crocodile: Guess who wins?

So apparently this photo is the result of a veterinarian seeking to examine a crocodile. Having drugged the living fossil, the vet assumed it was safe to put one's arm down the croc's throat to retrieve the tranquilizer dart  he used to drug the animal.

A smirking crocodile

Is it me or is the crocodile actually smirking? I think he's displaying the arm as a trophy and so he should, he totally faked out the vet!

Check out the to darts at the left of the picture. Lesson? You need four darts!

The good news is the arm was able to re attached to one Chang Po-yu's' body. This all happened in 2007 at Shaoshan Zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

No smirking in this photo as Chang Po-yu's holds up four fingers to show how many darts he should use next time

Now, the title of this post asked, "guess who wins?" And I bet you thought the crocodile won, after he got the guys arm right? No. To get the arm back the crocodile had to be shot twice. Sad Face.

But wait! The bullets missed and the smirking crocodile was not shot! It's a win for the crocodile and the crowd goes wild!

True story, you can't make this kind off stuff up.

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