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Otters are not the first animal that comes to mind when most people think of a flourishing wildlife in Florida – but a clash with an aggressive and possibly rabid animal has left a woman temporarily unable to walk. Ann-Christine Langselius, a resident of Maitland, told Fox News that she was walking her Goldendoodle on a bridge in a park in the suburbs of Orlando last week, when she saw the ### Animal "run fast" towards her. She says that in a totally unprovoked attack, the otter attacked her right leg, then drove her teeth into her left leg – and hung herself while she was running at about 25 meters. Langselius, who left northern Sweden to go to Florida 18 months ago, says she needed rabies vaccines and she was struggling to walk because of severe bites. .
"I've never seen an animal behave this way, so I guessed it was sick when it happened to me," says Langselius at Orlando Sentinel. "But the scariest thing is that he was not let down, he really bit me at the Achilles tendon, so it lasted a long time." Authorities believe that the same otter would be responsible for at least two other attacks targeting Maitland residents. Posters were placed in the park with the mention "CAUTION: aggressive otter reported in the area". Authorities say that a few days after Langselius was bitten, a police officer shot dead a rabid otter in a resident's yard, but did not confirm that it was the same animal responsible for the attacks. . (Last year, a kayaker was injured during another otter attack in Florida.)
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