Florida's first Black Bear attack and fatality

[MaxMan]

https://www.breitbart.com/health/20...lled-floridas-first-deadly-black-bear-attack/

 

[contender]

But, but, but according to Disney,, bears are just cute & cuddly!

Seriously,,, this is tragic.

I find it interesting one of the statements says the man was asleep in his trailer,, yet his body was found outside near the dead dog. Without witnesses, or any other hard evidence,, it'll be tough to say exactly what happened. Bear DNA found inside the trailer suggests the bear entered the trailer. And someone says they saw the bear kill the dog. All very interesting.

One part of the linked story says that DNA on one bear matches the man, and partial remains were found in the bear.

Another case of; "It can't happen here" being proved wrong.

 

[Jim Walsh]

Bears are omnivores, as such always a threat. It would be interesting to know if it had a debilitating injury or was suffering from old age. This could have led to a change in diet and potential prey.

 

[RC44Mag]

A lot of critters are vegetarians and kill many people every year. I believe hippos are the number one killer of humans every year in the dark continent.

 

[MaxMan]

I never thought black bears were very aggressive. So very well might have been injured or something like that. We have a friend who live out by the Ocala National Forest and sometimes she gets bears at the back door, but her dogs scare them off. May the bear got it the trailer and he tried to fight it.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

I never thought black bears were very aggressive. So very well might have been injured or something like that. We have a friend who live out by the Ocala National Forest and sometimes she gets bears at the back door, but her dogs scare them off. May the bear got it the trailer and he tried to fight it.

Black bears aren’t very aggressive, until they are. Then lookout. They don’t have to be old and sickly to become predatory. When you run into one of those, you better have a gun in your hand.

 

[Mobuck]

I was involved in an aggressive bear incident in Colorado when we worked there the summer of 2010. The campground where we worked was located astride a travel corridor and one of my duties was animal patrol. The Wildlife control officer provided me a permit to use whatever means I felt necessary to keep the property safe. We had tent campers and even folks just sleeping under mosquito netting so very vulnerable. In my spare time I was scouting for a fall elk hunt closer to the high country and one evening as I was coming out through a state run campground, I was flagged down by the officer who'd given me the permit asking for assistance. At one of the primitive campsites a black bear had walked past the family sitting at the picnic table and taken the food right off the firepit grill. The camper had fired a shotgun at the bear and assumably had wounded it. The wildlife officer asked me to watch the site while he went looking for the possibly wounded bear. I sat in my pickup with flashlight and 44 mag until he gave up and returned w/o finding the bear. No more incidents in the area so quite possible the bear was fatally injured. Judging by the size of the track, this was mature bear and could just as easily grabbed one of the small children.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

People get worked up about brown bears. And it is justified. Truth is a black bear is more likely to become predatory. Not saying a grizzly won’t become so, but they usually have their own agenda when they get rowdy. I’ve heard of very few predatory grizzly attacks. It does occasionally happen, probably good there are mostly black bears in this country. People are far more likely to be a victim of a 2 legged predator. Either way, it pays to be ready for anything.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

This is an example.
Let me know if you can see this.

 

[Wvfarrier]

There was a woman in canada killed by one a couple years ago. Still an astronomically rare event

 

[stonebuster]

Locally here in Ct. there have been several incidents recently of dog owners getting injured trying to protect their dog from Black bears. We've got a Black bear now that comes into our yard twice a day sometimes. Yesterday I was pulling some weeds, stood up and the bear was 20ft. away from me and coming my way. To make it worse, I'm nursing a torn hamstring and can't walk backwards or run. I had to turn my back on the bear an hobble away walking like Fred Sanford. Fortunately, he had little interest in me.

 

[Mobuck]

I wouldn't tolerate a bear in my yard REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES. :censored: :devilish::rolleyes:

 

[stonebuster]

I wouldn't tolerate a bear in my yard REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES. :censored: :devilish::rolleyes:

If DEP gets enough phone calls about a nuisance bear they set traps & destroy it. Trouble is they're everywhere including downtown a few weeks ago. They're trying to decide how to reduce the bear population in Ct. including a bear hunting season. A case of too little, too late. The best way to scare one off I've found is a boat air horn. Then you can experience how fast they can move. Discharging a firearm within 500ft of a house or road will cost you your gun rights here.

 

[contender]

Just having a bear in your yard or close by is not a valid reason to kill it in most, if not all states.
Here in WNC,, especially in Buncombe County,, there's a lot of that daily all over the place. Especially the city limits.

You have to make the animals fear humans to where they do not want to be around them. Air horns,, whistles, sudden sharp noises work a few times,, then they learn there isn't a reason to fear the noise.

We have plenty of problems,, and as noted above,, too little,, too late. I flatly told a lady last week who called to complain about the bears that her gated community,, (a sanctuary) was EXACTLY why they had problems. Hunting in those areas,, prior to the "development" kept the population in check AND created a fear of humans in the bears.

Just more "Disney education" gone wrong!

 

[Jim Walsh]

If DEP gets enough phone calls about a nuisance bear they set traps & destroy it. Trouble is they're everywhere including downtown a few weeks ago. They're trying to decide how to reduce the bear population in Ct. including a bear hunting season. A case of too little, too late. The best way to scare one off I've found is a boat air horn. Then you can experience how fast they can move. Discharging a firearm within 500ft of a house or road will cost you your gun rights here.

They often set a trap, ear tag them when caught, and release them. That may have been fine 40 years ago but it makes no sense now. I’ve been hunting in the area of Barkhamstead Reservoir since my teens and I’ve seen at least one bear every three days of hunting since the 70’s. That was the same era when the state claimed we had no bears, no fishers, no turkeys, no coyotes, and no moose living in our state. All bald faced lies.
While they were claiming we had no turkeys in the state they were quietly trapping turkeys in western Massachusetts and stocking them in Connecticut. The problem was one of the places they trapped turkeys was on my uncles property. In fact the first mountain lion I ever saw was also on his property. I’ve never seen one in Connecticut and I’m not keen to ever see another one.

 

[stonebuster]

They often set a trap, ear tag them when caught, and release them. That may have been fine 40 years ago but it makes no sense now. I've been hunting in the area of Barkhamstead Reservoir since my teens and I've seen at least one bear every three days of hunting since the 70's. That was the same era when the state claimed we had no bears, no fishers, no turkeys, no coyotes, and no moose living in our state. All bald faced lies.
While they were claiming we had no turkeys in the state they were quietly trapping turkeys in western Massachusetts and stocking them in Connecticut. The problem was one of the places they trapped turkeys was on my uncles property. In fact the first mountain lion I ever saw was also on his property. I've never seen one in Connecticut and I'm not keen to ever see another one.

About 20 years ago there were many reports of a mountain lion sightings in western CT and DEP denied there were any. That is, until one was killed by a car in Redding/Wilton area. They said they tracked it back to the upper Midwest from scat samples. I know two people who insist they saw one locally and these folks know the difference between a bobcat & mountain lion.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

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I wouldn't tolerate a bear in my yard REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES. :censored: :devilish::rolleyes:

my favorite thing about Alaska is if I am afraid for my life or the life of my dog (no kids here) I can shoot a bear in DLP (defense of life and property).