00:01Timothy Treadwell
00:02We start with a man who became a celebrity because of the animals that killed him.
00:08Timothy Treadwell, the self-proclaimed grizzly man.
00:13For 13 summers, he lived unarmed among the grizzly bears of Katmai National Park, Alaska.
00:19He saw them as his friends, gave them names, and believed he had a special connection with them.
00:26They were not on the same wavelength.
00:28One was on Spiritual Protector of Nature.
00:31The other was on Bro, Is That Me?
00:35On the evening of October 5, 2003, a 28-year-old 1,000-pound grizzly bear,
00:42later identified as Bear 141, attacked Timothy outside his tent.
00:47His girlfriend, Amy Huguenard, was inside.
00:51Their camera was running, but the lens cap was on, so it only recorded the audio.
00:55The six minutes of that tape are the most terrifying thing you will ever hear.
01:01It starts with Timothy screaming,
01:04Come out here!
01:05I'm being killed out here!
01:06The bear is on him, dragging him.
01:09You can hear the sound of his body being pulled through the dirt and brush.
01:14Amy, inside the tent, screams for him to play dead.
01:17Then she comes out, trying to fight the bear off.
01:20You hear her screams, and then silence.
01:27When park rangers arrived the next day, they found what was left.
01:31Timothy's head, part of his spine, and his right forearm, still wearing his watch, were found near the camp.
01:37The rest of him had been eaten.
01:40Amy's body was found partially buried under a mound of dirt and twigs, a bear's cache, treating her like a
01:47food supply for later.
01:48The bear was later shot, and an autopsy confirmed it had human remains and clothing in its stomach.
01:55Timothy thought he was their friend.
01:57The bear just saw him as food.
02:01Taylor Mitchell
02:02Taylor Mitchell was a rising star, a 19-year-old Canadian folk singer with a beautiful voice and a promising
02:10career.
02:11In October 2009, she was touring to promote her debut album.
02:16In between gigs, she decided to go for a solo hike on the Skyline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National
02:23Park, Nova Scotia.
02:25She was alone.
02:27And she wasn't the only predator on the trail that day.
02:31A pack of coyotes, genetically part wolf, began to stalk her.
02:37These weren't starving animals.
02:39They were opportunistic predators who had learned to see humans as potential prey.
02:44At first, one approached her from the front, a non-threatening posture, giving a test bite.
02:51But as soon as she was injured, their tactics changed.
02:54They swarmed her, biting at her legs, trying to pull her down.
02:59She fought back, but she was outnumbered.
03:02Other hikers heard her screams and found a horrific scene.
03:06Taylor on the ground, with a coyote literally standing over her.
03:11They managed to scare the animals away, but the damage was done.
03:14She had deep bite wounds all over her body, her skin torn from the muscle.
03:19She was airlifted to a hospital, but she had lost too much blood.
03:24She died the next morning.
03:26It was the first, and to this day, the only documented fatal coyote attack on an adult human
03:33in North America.
03:35Later studies showed these specific coyotes had become accustomed to hunting large prey like
03:40young moose, which explains why they switched to pack tactics on a human.
03:45Biting at the legs to bring her down, then swarming.
03:50Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter, a global icon of wildlife conservation, a man who seemed
03:58invincible.
03:59On September 4, 2006, he was filming a documentary called Ocean's Deadliest at Bat Reef in Queensland,
04:06Australia.
04:08The weather was bad, so they were filming some filler shots in shallow water.
04:12Steve was swimming over a large, 8-foot-wide stingray.
04:16His cameraman, Justin Lyons, was filming.
04:19The ray, likely feeling cornered and threatened by the shadow from above, went into defensive
04:25mode.
04:25It whipped its tail up, its serrated, venomous barb acting like a harpoon.
04:31It didn't just strike once.
04:33It was a frenzied barrage of stabs, hundreds of strikes in a few seconds.
04:39One of those stabs went right through Steve's chest, piercing his heart.
04:45Justin Lyons said he saw Steve go rigid, a dark silhouette surrounded by a cloud of blood
04:51before sinking into the water.
04:54They pulled him onto the boat, and Lyons tried to put pressure on the wound, but it was hopeless.
04:59The barb, with its sharp serrations, had sawed through his heart wall like a steak knife.
05:06This caused his pericardial sac, the bag around the heart, to fill with blood, literally suffocating
05:12the heart from the outside.
05:14Even in a top hospital, the chance of surviving that kind of injury is virtually zero.
05:20The CPR on the boat was hopeless from the start.
05:24Steve looked up at him and said,
05:26I'm dying.
05:27And then, he was gone.
05:30The entire event was caught on camera, but at the request of his family, the footage was destroyed.
05:36The world lost a legend, killed by a normally placid animal in a one-in-a-million freak accident.
05:45Catherine Chappell
05:46Catherine Chappell was an Emmy-winning visual effects editor who worked on Game of Thrones.
05:52In June 2015, she was in South Africa, volunteering for a wildlife conservation fund.
05:58She was there to protect animals, but a moment of carelessness turned her into prey.
06:04She was on a tour of the Lyon Park near Johannesburg.
06:08The rules are simple.
06:09Keep your windows closed at all times.
06:13Her guide said he warned her at least twice.
06:16But Catherine, wanting to get a better photo, rolled her window down.
06:20A lioness, which staff later called a problem cat, saw its opportunity.
06:25The lioness approached the car from a blind spot, low to the ground.
06:30In one explosive leap, it was through the open window.
06:33Its jaws clamped down on Catherine's neck and shoulder, its claws digging into her.
06:40The guide saw a flash of fur, and then Catherine's upper body disappearing as the lioness tried to drag her
06:46out of the car.
06:47She was killed instantly.
06:48The bite severed her carotid artery, causing an arterial spray of blood inside the car.
06:55The irony is brutal.
06:57She was in South Africa on a conservation mission, raising money to protect the very type of animal that killed
07:03her.
07:03And she died because she ignored the most basic rule of interacting with it.
07:14Jackie Boxberger was a famous French Olympic runner, a man who had spent his life pushing his body to its
07:23limits.
07:24In August 2001, he was on vacation with his family in Savo East National Park, Kenya.
07:31He was a tourist, but also a minor celebrity, and guides let him get a little closer to the animals
07:37for nice photos.
07:40Their jeep stopped about 65 feet from a female elephant.
07:45Jackie got out, camera in hand, his teenage son right beside him.
07:50The elephant saw them as a threat.
07:52It fanned its ears, tilted its head, and then it charged.
07:58Jackie, perhaps trying to lure the elephant away from his son, tried to run.
08:04He didn't stand a chance.
08:06The elephant caught him with its trunk or head, knocking him to the ground.
08:11Then it stepped on him, one foot on his chest, the other on his pelvis.
08:17His ribs, spine, and pelvis were shattered in a single movement.
08:22His internal organs were pulverized.
08:25Doctors who saw the body later said it was no longer anatomically recognizable.
08:31A life of athletic achievement ended in a split second of raw, unstoppable power.
08:42The animals didn't directly kill him, but they were the trigger.
08:47Surinder Singh Bajva was the deputy mayor of Delhi, India.
08:51In 2007, the city was dealing with a massive problem with aggressive, rhesus macaques.
08:57Bajva was one of the politicians in charge of solving it.
09:01In October 2007, a troop of these monkeys invaded his home, jumping onto his first floor balcony
09:07looking for food.
09:09Bajva went outside to confront them, probably just waving a stick and shouting.
09:13But the monkeys didn't back down.
09:15They felt challenged.
09:17They growled, showed their teeth, and one or more of them lunged at him.
09:22In the ensuing panic, Bajva stumbled backward.
09:25He stepped too far, lost his balance, and fell over the low railing of his balcony.
09:30He fell one story onto the hard ground below, suffering a severe head injury.
09:35He died in the hospital the next day from severe head trauma, a skull fracture, and brain hemorrhage.
09:42The monkeys in Delhi had lost their fear of humans after years of being fed at temples,
09:47making them far more aggressive.
09:49The very problem he, as a politician, was responsible for solving, ended up causing his death.
09:57A bizarre, tragic, and deeply ironic end.
10:02Jack Bonavita
10:04Now we go way back to the silent film era.
10:08Jack Bonavita was a famous animal trainer known for working with big cats.
10:13He was a tough guy.
10:14He'd already lost an arm in a lion attack years earlier.
10:18In 1917, he was working with a polar bear named Piccolo at a film studio menagerie in Los Angeles.
10:25Piccolo was known to be unpredictable.
10:28During a routine session in the bear's cage, the animal refused to perform a trick.
10:32Nope.
10:33Bonavita, with his one good arm, tried to force the issue, probably with a stick or a whip.
10:39The bear snapped.
10:41With a single swipe of its massive paw, it slammed Bonavita against the bars of the cage.
10:47Then it grabbed his head and its jaws.
10:51Eyewitnesses said the bear ripped his jaw and face open.
10:57His jaw was shattered, his face split to the bone.
11:01He was rushed to surgery, but died on the operating table from shock and blood loss.
11:06In a macabre footnote, the bear was immediately shot and killed in its cage, and its carcass was put on
11:12public display.
11:13A gruesome end for both man and beast.
11:20Diana Whipple
11:21This is one of the most infamous and horrifying animal attack cases in American history.
11:27Diane Whipple was a 33-year-old lacrosse coach living in San Francisco.
11:32On January 26, 2001, she was returning to her apartment, her arms full of groceries.
11:39As she unlocked her door, her neighbor, Marjorie Knoller, appeared with her two massive Presa Canario dogs, Bane and Hera.
11:48The dogs, which were being raised for a prison gang's dogfighting ring, were notoriously aggressive.
11:54Bane, the male, weighed over 130 pounds.
11:59He broke free from Knoller and lunged at Diane.
12:02What followed was a mauling of unimaginable brutality.
12:06Bane, and then Hera, attacked her in the narrow hallway for several minutes.
12:11A neighbor who heard the attack later described the sound as wet canvas being ripped.
12:17When police arrived, they found a bloodbath.
12:20Diane was still alive, but she had 77 separate wounds covering her entire body.
12:26Only the crown of her head and the soles of her feet were untouched.
12:30Her neck was torn open, her larynx crushed.
12:33Doctors tried for hours to repair the damage, but she had lost more than half of her body's blood volume.
12:40She died at the hospital a few hours later.
12:43Her owner, Marjorie Knoller, later claimed she had tried to shield Diane with her own body, but the jury didn't
12:51buy it.
12:51Knoller had only a few minor scratches.
12:54The case led to a murder conviction, one of the few times in legal history that has happened.
12:59Although father told other witnesses, he had only aitiéorootold in jail.
12:59D bientôt.
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