Beaver kills man in Belarus; he wanted to be photographed with it

A Belarus fisherman who invaded a beaver’s space paid for it with his life.

The 60-year-old man in Belarus was with friends on a recent fishing trip when he tried to approach the beaver to be photographed with it, according to the Daily Telegraph. The beaver attacked, biting him twice and severing an artery.

The friends of the unidentified man “tried to bandage him and find a doctor in a nearby village,” a local wildlife official told the Telegraph. But the man died from blood loss before help could arrive.

There have been couple of attacks on humans by beavers in the US in the past years, but in both of those cases the person was swimming and the beaver had rabies. This last is a reminder to people to make sure your pet has their rabies vaccine and to notify animal control if you see a rabid animal.