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Animal Attacks

by OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT

Animal Attacks opens with the sound every hiker fears: a branch snapping too close, too deliberate to be the wind. This documentary podcast about animal attacks is where nature stops being scenery and becomes something with teeth, and every episode reconstructs one true encounter minute by minute, using field notes, necropsy reports, and the testimony of people who walked away changed. What you get here isn't a highlight reel of animal attacks. It's a full account: the wolf that stayed hidden for eighty-seven years before one final sighting, the four hippos left behind by a drug lord who became an invasive species crisis in Colombia, a grizzly hunted down after seven bullets finally ended a reign of terror in the American West. Each of these animal attacks is rebuilt from the ground up, so you understand not just what happened, but why the animal did what it did, and what it cost the humans involved. The show moves through wildlife encounters gone wrong, unexplained natural phenomena like fish raining from the sky for three days, and survival stories where the line between predator and prey blurs fast. Some episodes focus on animal attacks that made international headlines, others on quieter incidents nobody outside a small town ever heard about. You will hear about survivors who made impossible choices in seconds, people who faced something ancient and instinctive and lived to describe it, and the strange afterlives of animals that became legend, from a taxidermied mascot to a whale that vanished without a trace. This is nature red in tooth and claw, with real animal attacks told through the patience of investigative journalism instead of shock value. If you're drawn to stories of survival against all odds, where the wilderness is a character and not a backdrop, and where animal attacks reveal something deeper about the natural world, subscribe now.

Latest episodes

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A pod of orcas handed whales' tongues to people for decades

In Twofold Bay, a killer whale pod and human whalers kept a “Law of Tongue” pact-so how did that strange arrangement begin? A pod of orcas handed whales' tongues to peop

Oct 20
21 min

The tiger pulled him offstage while he was having a stroke

A 600‑lb white tiger lunges at a performer in front of an audience - was the animal trying to help him during a stroke? The tiger pulled him offstage while he was having

Oct 19
17 min

A GPS collar recorded Cecil's last 40 hours outside the park

A GPS collar blinked Cecil’s last coordinates for forty hours after he left Hwange National Park, recording a hunt no one inside the park witnessed. A GPS collar recorde

Oct 18
19 min

The Tamworth pig that swam a river and vanished for a week

A half-wild Tamworth pig swims a river, vanishes into English woodland and ignites an international media scramble-how did one fence gap do this? The Tamworth pig that s

Oct 17
19 min

The Soldier, The Bear, and the Unanswered Goodbye of Winnie

A Canadian vet lieutenant brings a bear cub to London Zoo in 1914-why he never brought Winnie home? The Soldier, The Bear, and the Unanswered Goodbye of Winnie In this

Oct 16
16 min

A leather collar has been fastened only four times in 24 years

A leather collar is buckled at center court - a university's identity passes between bulldogs; what exactly transfers when a collar moves? A leather collar has been fast

Oct 15
19 min

A retired one‑horned goat tied outside the Pentagon

A retired one‑horned goat sits tied outside the Pentagon - how did a cadet mission end with her in traffic? A retired one‑horned goat tied outside the Pentagon In this

Oct 14
15 min

Cecil earned $9,800 a day - and a hunter paid $45,000 to kill him

A collared Hwange lion crosses a boundary - a hunter leaves the GPS collar discarded in the dirt. What happened? Cecil earned $9,800 a day - and a hunter paid $45,000 to

Oct 13
20 min

Fifteen Jonathans, ninety years - and no agreed numbering between 8 and 10

A UConn fraternity kept a husky named Jonathan alive for decades - but between Jonathans 8 and 10, numbering fractures and no archive can agree? Fifteen Jonathans, ninet

Oct 12
18 min

A white gorilla with SLC45A2 mutation was born to closely related parents

A white gorilla from a West African forest is captured and becomes world-famous - but did the mutation that made him visible also harm his eyes? A white gorilla with SLC

Oct 11
17 min

One percent of mammoth DNA turned an elephant into something new

A team edits an Asian elephant with mammoth traits to survive cold - but would a mostly elephant animal still be a mammoth? One percent of mammoth DNA turned an elephant

Oct 10
18 min

The Wolf That Stacked Every Poison Bait, Unbitten

A lone wolf in New Mexico stacks hunters’ poison baits into neat piles-so how did he outsmart an era of industrialized poisoning? The Wolf That Stacked Every Poison Bait

Oct 9
18 min

A stray dog rode South Australian trains for eleven years

A stray dog rode South Australian trains for eleven years, slipping onto goods vans and footplates - how is that possible? A stray dog rode South Australian trains for e

Oct 8
19 min

Forty thousand people watched a groundhog that's right 36% of the time

Forty thousand people crowd a Pennsylvania hill at dawn to watch Punxsutawney Phil predict the weather - but is he right? Forty thousand people watched a groundhog that'

Oct 7
19 min

A detection dog walked out of an Afghan battlefield after 14 months

A black detection dog vanishes from an Afghan ambush and reappears 14 months later - how did she survive and who kept her alive in Orūzgān Province? A detection dog walk

Oct 6
16 min

The four hippos that became two hundred and approved for killing

Four hippos arrived in Colombia in 1981, becoming 200 descendants 45 years later. Now, the government has approved the killing of over 80 of them. The four hippos that b

Oct 5
20 min

One bulldog refused every name but Jack - and seven successors kept it

A university bulldog refused to answer to any name but Jack in 1962. Decades later, every Georgetown bulldog mascot still carries it. One bulldog refused every name but

Oct 4
16 min

A single mountain lion crossed 8 lanes to save a population

A mountain lion makes a miraculous crossing of an eight-lane freeway, carrying the hopes of a genetically isolated population on his shoulders. A single mountain lion cr

Oct 3
19 min

A thirteen‑year‑old lion with an atrophied hind leg led a pride takeover

A thirteen‑year‑old Scarface with an atrophied hind leg helped seize the Marsh Pride in the Maasai Mara-how did he survive and hold power? A thirteen‑year‑old lion with

Oct 2
18 min

The photograph of Shabani posted online made him a national celebrity

A single candid photo of a withdrawn gorilla in Nagoya ignites a national fascination with the word "handsome" - and nobody planned it. The photograph of Shabani posted

Oct 1
19 min

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