Instead, it dove back down, “and started going after me, again and again,” said Elbourne, a professor of history at McGill University. Elbourne ran up to the road, flagged down help and was taken to hospital, where the wounds were stitched up. Nonetheless, “Appropriate wound care after an animal bite is crucial,” they warn, although there is no data in the medical literature, per se, about how to treat otter bites. “It sounds like an individual rogue animal,” Brunton said, adding otters are normally curious and playful critters. “I think it’s a jarring realization to understand that nature can bite back.”• Email: jskirkey@postmedia.com | Twitter: sharon_kirkey

Source: National Post September 23, 2016 20:48 UTC