Rat V Stoat, and the winner is.

[craeg]

Great spot and pics mate.

Has anyone ever heard of the legend of stoat gathering en-masse and attacking individual people? It has apparently happened in the past when their numbers where greater. I read this in an article in Fortean Times a few years back. Sounds really scarry though :yikes:

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/88/stoat_packs.html

Another wierd thing happened in a St. Neots, Cambs field last week. Police were called to a field where a group of cows had surrounded a swan and then in front of onlookers, trampled it to death. This same herd attacked and trampled a man a couple of months earlier.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cambridgeshire/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_9084000/9084438.stm

Nature has some strange things going down

 

[3bears]

wow, I've seen full grown cats come out in bad states after taking on a rat, and that little fella is 1/2 the size!

 

[Bushwhacker]

Has anyone ever heard of the legend of stoat gathering en-masse and attacking individual people? It has apparently happened in the past when their numbers where greater. I read this in an article in Fortean Times a few years back. Sounds really scarry though :yikes:

No, but I have heard of weasel fighting as this vid shows. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmBAUyy7Go

 

[Doc]

The key identifier is that the stoat has a black tip on its tail.

Yes. You can weaselly tell because they are stoatally different.

I'll get my coat.