Head shot

One way to escape from a crocodile attack is to hit it in its eye, according to an article on reptile survival tips on History.com.

Australian farmer Colin Deveraux recently survived an attack using the technique.

Deveraux was fishing in a pond near the Finniss River in the Northern Territory when a crocodile emerged from the water and bit him hard on his right foot.

The reptile pulled Deveraux three meters into the pond, but he fought it off by kicking and biting its head. He then pulled back its leathery eyelid and jerked it. The animal instantly let him go, and the badly injured Deveraux managed to escape.

He used a rope to control the bleeding bite until he reached the hospital. It took doctors ten days to thoroughly clean the muddy wound before closing it with staples and skin grafts, CNN reported.

While fighting back helps one escape from a predator, it doesn't always work, as what happened in rural Oshawa, Canada, on Monday, 5 November.

A truck was transporting animals to Quebec when a kangaroo escaped. Motorists spotted it and recorded it hopping along the public roads and alerted authorities.

Police tried to catch the runaway roo through a known technique, which is to grab it by the tail, as advised by a wildlife expert.

If humans try to avoid wild animals for self-preservation, the feeling is mutual for marsupials who regard man as dangerous. So the kangaroo instinctively fought off its trappers by punching a police officer in the face, according to reports.

The jab didn't work, and the kangaroo was returned to its handlers for its journey to a Quebec zoo.

Although not injured, the victim of the roo rage will forever remember the animal punch throughout his career, Staff Sgt. Chris Boileau of the Durham Regional Police told CBC Toronto.                

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