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The man is believed to have been on a fishing trip at Lake Shestakov in Belarus with two friends when they spotted the animal on the side of the road.



They stopped to take a picture of the creature, but as the victim approached the beaver it reprotedly leapt on him, biting him on the leg.



Despite the efforts of his friends to stem the flow of blood from the wound, the man bled to death.



The animal is believed to have severed a main artery during the attack, according to reports.



Attacks from the sharp-toothed critters are rare and according to experts those that do go for humans are usually rabid.



However, earlier this week a video, available to watch below, showed a man in Russia running away from a angry beaver who charged at him as he was filming in the area.

The man in the footage claims in the video's description that he was knocked to the ground, lost a shoe, and felt grateful to have escaped from the fearsome beast.

"Those who have seen the teeth of beavers will understand," he wrote.