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Originally Posted by GGG

Overall attacks are higher in summer because of the number of people.

Here is a good study from Herraro who is the world leading researcher on the subject.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep20552



https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley...0.1002/jwmg.72

An abstract from herraro on black bear fatalities. 88% of black bear fatalities are due to predation.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3873003?seq=1

And this one on BC bears found that 79% of Grizzly attacks were females which you can infer to be defending Cubs.

The patterns seem to be Grizzly attacks tend to be about protecting young or carcasses and black bears tend to be predatory.

A large reason for this is over population of black bears, younger or older bears with trouble getting it's food they take the opportunity as it presents itself. They are pushing the less dominant bears into areas with less food so they do what they need to in order to survive. Grizzlies will do the same to them as well as eat them

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