Top 5 Animal Attack Survival Stories. These people got lucky and survived brutal animal attacks. These attacks would have killed them for sure if they hadn’t gotten as lucky and if they hadn’t reacted the way they did!

5. Brent Case

Brent Case was doing a land surveying job on May 3rd of 2008. While his back was turned, a huge grizzly bear sneaked up and bit into his head and arm. Luckily for Brent he did the only right thing he could do: playing dead. Playing dead caused the beast to lose interest and the giant predator eventually walked away. Case got in his car and drove 25 kilometers to a gas station where he called for medical attention. He lost a large portion of his skull that day, but miraculously survived the attack.

4. Kootoo Shaw

The 46-year-old Inuit guide used to make his living guiding hunting parties, until he was attacked by a polar bear. Shaw was three days into a hunt when he was attacked by the bear while sleeping in his tent. Another hunter managed to shoot the bear. Shaw suffered numerous deep slashes and needed nearly 300 stitches to reattach his scalp. “He had his claws in my neck for a while and I could hear his breathing,” according to Shaw…

3. Michael Nash

Michael Nash is a well known explorer and adventurer. In 2003, when he was in Loango National Park, he came across a mother elephant and her calf. He thought everything was fine, but when he turned away the mother charged. He heard her coming and turned around just in time to jump up onto her tusks and ride her until she ran out of steam. Had he not been able to hold on, the elephant would have surely crushed him to death.

2. James Marrow

James Marrow was visiting Ocala National Forest with his friends when he was attacked by a huge alligator. Luckily, Marrow’s snorkel took the biggest hit of the bite force; otherwise, his skull would have been crushed instantly. While the alligator was dealing with the snorkel, Marrow’s friends were able to drag him to safety.

1. Carl Akeley

There are not too many people who can truthfully say they killed a leopard with their bare hands. Carl Akeley used to take hunting trips all over the world. One day he was in British Somalia and was attacked by a fully grown leopard. While on the ground, Akeley stuck his arm down the cat’s mouth and suffocated it from the inside out.

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