It was a baaaaaaad situation.
One hiker was nearly killed last week after a goat went wild, attacking her and two friends while they were traversing the Alpujarra hills in southern Spain.
A 64-year-old Belgian women was charged by the aggressive, wild Iberian ibex and was forced off a 65-foot-tall cliff, based on the Spanish outlet Murcia Today.
Luckily, the autumn was not fatal, and the adventurer managed to land on a ledge that kept her protected from the attacking animal.
She did suffer two broken wrists.
The remaining two hikers were seriously wounded after the goat knocked one in every of the 2 explorers unconscious.
Thankfully, a passing shepherd found the besieged tourists and called within the Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group to assist evacuate.
A spokesperson for the Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group later told a neighborhood news outlet that it was practically a “miracle” that the girl had survived her fall off of the cliff.
In an effort to locate their missing companion, the Civil Guard, Spain’s oldest law enforcement agency, sent out rescue parties but were forced to call off the search after 9 p.m. on account of inclement weather in the world.
Members of the guard eventually managed to locate the girl, who was affected by hypothermia, and brought her to a neighborhood hospital on horseback.
The spokesman added that it was a “moderately spectacular rescue on account of the steepness of the terrain.”
Experts hypothesized that the rationale for the aggressive nature of the ibex is that females normally give birth in May, prompting the males of the species to turn into highly aggressive and territorial.
Spanish authorities have stated the rise of ibex encounters has grown on account of a rise in tourism.
These tourists are usually not the primary to come across an aggressive wild animal.
In Missouri, law enforcement officials issued a warning that residents are usually not allowed to wrestle with a black bruin bear that was spotted passing through town of Salem.
“Earlier this morning we received phone calls a couple of black bear near Rolla Road,” the department wrote in a Facebook post. “The Police Department closely monitored the situation and the bear was last seen heading North back out of town.”
In line with the department, if anyone was caught attempting to — or promoting the motion of — wrestling the bear, all parties involved could be charged with a Class A misdemeanor.
One other wild encounter got here when a mountain lion attacked a person who was lounging in his hot tub at a Colorado rental home.
