DANGERS, IT IS TO BE KNOWN ABOUT..

Simple rules in appearance, but essential to enjoy the pleasure of an outing in the woods, without dangers, but with intelligence.

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Boars

In the woods it goes with thousand precautions. It is better to be documented on the zone that it decises to be visited. If there are oak tree woods it is possible that wild boars are in the neighbourhoods because acorns go greedy. It is very important to be attentive to the signals of the ground. Those left by the wild boars are obvious. The marks that they left digging with the snout the ground, the grunt, are very recognizables. Walking with a stick to move the leaves is useful. The boar moves in herd. And it is very noisy. More difficult is to understand at all the elements there are in the herd, which often prefers to move getting dark or in the night, then fundamental is to know that to go about the dark as well as being forbidden in many areas is also more dangerous. If it has been involved in a close encounter fundamental is to keep calm. It seems an obvious advice, but it’s the first rule. To lean against a tree and make noise for scare the animals. The boars tend to be fearful and to escape. Another element, as well as the stick to make noise, that it is always necessary to remember, is a jacket to high visibility. Essential above all also to be shown by the hunters. Don’t run. The boars run faster than us. Like almost the wild animals.

Dogs

When they are free they generally aren’t dangerous, however it is necessary to consider that they are territorial animals. The problem can be presented in the closeness of the shelters. If the animal shows aggresiveness marks it is necessary not to let us start the panic and not to run away hastily, but speak with calm in a loud voice calling the master, retreat always with calm and in case to interpose, between us and the dog, the backpack or the bicycle.

Vipers

In increase in these last years also because of the lack of natural enemies and of the abandonment of the territory, can be also in places that weren’t their optimal habitat and even to the highest shares (also beyond 2.500 metres). The animal in itself is not aggressive and the danger is above all in step on it inadvertently or in allowing itself to happen at the panic. As active precaution one must proceed with caution and attention, especially in the meadows with high grass and in the closeness of ruins of old hamlets, sounding the ground with a racket or a long stick. As a passive precaution is well to carry heavy footwear, high big knee-length socks up to the knee and over the trousers jeans or, in any case, of a large and thick cloth, so the viper is not able to arrive at the skin. To check quite also the surrounding ground when it comes to decision of doing a stop. Unadvisable the serum antiviper for conservation problems and because it is used only by a doctor, it can be useful the kit for breathe the blood, however acting calm the best thing is to reach the hospital.  A bite can be a very heavy matteri f one is distant by a reachable place with car, it would be necessary not to make covering the injuring and try to carry him.

Ticks

In these last years there is in increase the presence of this annoying insects that of for it they are not dangerous. However they have to be afraid because they bring virus of some heavy sickness. As precautionary measure is well to not enter in the meadows a little dressed, but wearing long trousers, if possible clean to distinguish the insect, over boots and quite closed below. In the case of an insect was sticking don’t try to take it out because the head would remain connected to the skin getting to painful infections, but to do so that the insects is forced to come off singly, or acting with special tweezers that are in commerce. It is quite also to apply suddently to a doctor.