These People Fought Wild Animals And Lived To Tell About It

these people fought wild animals and lived to tell about it [Music] carl ackly was a multi-hyphenate he was a taxidermist naturalist conservationist and all-around badass he also had a thing against leopards which he deemed the lowest of creatures while on safari in africa he shot and failed to kill one of the spotted kitties and it lunged at him the cat meant to kill the man but he stuck his hound down its gullet and asphyxiated it from the inside this picture was taken after akeley retrieved his hand it was early one morning when a black bear had followed the moyer's dog into their home richard moyer came down at 3 am as was his routine and found the feral beast chilling in the living room moyer acted quick and leapt at the bear which then became much more aggressive it started hitting and mauling at moyer before it went out onto the porch and popped a squat who knew canadians could be so vicious at the time david parker was a 61 year old guy minding his own business walking down an industrial road in a vancouver island village he was jumped from behind by a cougar weighing 100 pounds parker leapt into action whipped out his three-inch pocket knife and went to town yes that is eric nerhus three-quarters of the way inside of a great white shark at the time he was 41 so what happened is he was diving off australia for a certain type of shellfish that's popular in asia the shark came up and nearly swallowed him whole thanks to the lead vest he was wearing eric didn't suffer all the damage he could have first he bashed the shark a few times around the head then he fished around for the creature's eye and stuck a chisel into it that released it he was one lucky puppy back in 1999 when gene moe was a spring chicken in his 70s he was hunting out in alaska when a 750 pound female grizzly bear fell upon him his rifle was away from his hand and the only other weapon on his person was a buck knife so he whipped that out and while also assuming a boxer stance went rambo on the bear the bear took a chunk out of moe's arm and most sucked the bear a few clocks then he stabbed her a couple times this got the bear pretty angry so she charged at him mo cocked his hand and sucked the bear right below the eye and killed her dead mike faye is an explorer who in 2003 was along with his fellow explorers attacked by a female elephant in luanga national park in gabon she was protecting her young and gourd fae with her tusks thankfully he was experienced in wrestling with wild animals he grabbed hold of the tusks used them as leverage and rode the beast until he felt he was safe roy horne of siegfried and roy fame was mauled by his own pet white tiger in october of 2003. it was his birthday no less the tiger was a seven-year-old male named monticor raised in captivity and showed no inclination to hostility after a show roy was playing with a beast when it started to maul him before horn passed out he requested that the creature not be put down and his request was granted daniel radcliffe portrayed yossi ginsburg in the thriller jungle which documented the latter's survival in the jungle for 19 days after getting separated from his group among other acts of bravery in the face of fearful nature yossi had to fend off a tiger by setting fire to his insect repellent spray he used it like a flame thrower fire yet another reason not to go to florida in 1997 james morrow was down there near jacksonville snorkeling when a gator got hold of him tight the gator got him down into its small and morrow joked that he thought he touched its taste buds the gator spit him back out but not before inflicting on him some terrible injuries however his mask received most of the damage and he was shortly in stable condition coutu shaw was a hunting guide who was leading a group of hunters on an expedition three days into the hunt shaw was attacked by a polar bear in his tent the mayor had its claws under shaw's neck for a while before putting them away and proceeding to jump onto the man shaw suffered pretty exquisite damage before the hunters shot the polar bear dead andy peterson was hiking in a state park outside denver when he saw a mountain lion peer out from behind a tree the mountain lion was sued on top of him clawing his chest in peterson whipped out his utility blade and started stabbing at the lion when the cat didn't relent peterson went for the cat's eye and gouged it out to the bone he then impaled his knife on the cat's head and it fled peterson ran and was eventually dragged to safety by two women hikers joel nuenya zimbabwean farmer was pounced on by a line and came very close to death luckily the lion wanted to check on her cubs before dealing a final blow to the man and leapt off him nuenya was able to make his escape before the lioness came back for more and he was left with only a minor scratch on his hand lucky lucky hugh glass was a 19th century fur trapper who was also quite the rugged mother he was 1823 in glasgow between a grizzly and her cubs and was mauled on account of it his leg was broken his ribs were exposed he was nearly done in when his trapping partners found him they started digging a grave the burial was interrupted by a native american attack and the able-bodied trappers fled abandoning glass but glass was resilient he woke up and crawled 200 miles to the nearest american settlement looks like beasts aren't always non-human