I had never heard of bears attacking menstruating women, but I have heard that iguanas, of all things, may do so. Female iguanas are innocent, but women of child-bearing age should be careful around male iguanas, which apparently smell something hormonal at certain times of the month, which incites aggression. At least, so I was given to understand from a source I don’t remember. Iguanas, especially large ones, can do significant (or at least painful) damage to humans using their tails as whips.
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I can’t decide if this would be referred to as beastiality or S&M . :eek:
As to whether the OP is true regarding iguanas, see this for the only on-line cites about it I could find. Seems not unreasonable, and there are cites from scientific? literature to back it up.
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While SCUBA diving once I had a 10 ft. tiger shark follow right on my fins for some time. Later I wondered if this was because I was menstruating. Sharks are known to detect minute particles of blood from some distance. I’ve never seen any studies about this, though - just on grizzlies.
Jill
from scuba
Quoth samclem:
Careful research on the Web will turn up plenty of information on iguanas tormenting adolescent human females.
That’s interesting. What is DCS? My legs were all scraped up from being thrown against fire coral the day before and I also wondered if that was a variable affecting the shark’s interest in me.