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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Reading the CBC story, it sounds like the attack went on for an hour with bear just playing with her. People were throwing stuff at it and making noise. They even tried using a water canon, and the bear just kept attacking her until she was dead. Apparently all the methods that usually work to scare bears, didn't work for this one.
I took a wild life biology course in university and there was a lesson about recognizing predatory black bear behaviour. I recall reading learning how wild animals and specifically black bears, sometimes just have individuals that are just easy to agitate and are unpredictable. For whatever reason, they don't follow the norm or respond the way most of the species do. They compared them to anti-social people and said that animals are not exempt from that sort of notion. Coincidentally, one of the students in the class was the son of an oil rigger killed by a black bear in Alberta in the 1990s apparently.
Still, I can't believe that it took over an hour for someone with a gun to show up.
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That's horrifying. I was thinking/assuming it was related to the long winter and extended snow cover, so the bear(s) must be really hungry and desperate for food at this point. Or it was injured. Or both.
But that doesn't really explain why it took so long and wouldn't be scared away.
