Re:The Bears Who Came to Town and Would Not Go Away
by pvaldes on Sunday June 26, 2016 @06:29PM
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The reverse situation is probably much more common.
I have seen some videos from one of the main bear especialist in Norway, an american that had radiotracked about 800 bears in his life. Each year a few people is atacked in scandinavia and practically all attacks are to elk hunters by a bear previously shooted (deliberately or by mistake). Often there are also some hounds involved. In the video a bear surprised eating berries charge. The man stands in position and the bear move to one side in the last moment and run away. Not much unlike a gorilla. Is a common display. European bears are smaller, so in US could be different.
The not selfie advice is relevant. Bears loathe to be tracked. If you see some bear traces walk away and don't follow it. In Spain there is a recent and very unusual case of a brown bear that charged against a man doing photos, broke his arm with a single strike of the claws, deliver some advertence "soft" bites in neck and face and then escaped. As in the other four cases registered in 25 years in Spain, the bear striked once and then tried to escape by any means. None of the five victims were killed, although some were seriously injured.
A solution could be start feeding the black bears in the forest until the next year.
I have seen some videos from one of the main bear especialist in Norway, an american that had radiotracked about 800 bears in his life. Each year a few people is atacked in scandinavia and practically all attacks are to elk hunters by a bear previously shooted (deliberately or by mistake). Often there are also some hounds involved. In the video a bear surprised eating berries charge. The man stands in position and the bear move to one side in the last moment and run away. Not much unlike a gorilla. Is a common display. European bears are smaller, so in US could be different.
The not selfie advice is relevant. Bears loathe to be tracked. If you see some bear traces walk away and don't follow it. In Spain there is a recent and very unusual case of a brown bear that charged against a man doing photos, broke his arm with a single strike of the claws, deliver some advertence "soft" bites in neck and face and then escaped. As in the other four cases registered in 25 years in Spain, the bear striked once and then tried to escape by any means. None of the five victims were killed, although some were seriously injured.
A solution could be start feeding the black bears in the forest until the next year.