Category | Bear Attacks

A fifty-seven year old California man was mauled to death in a grizzly bear attack in Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday, but his wife managed to escape. Her screams alerted other campers in the area who came to her rescue but they arrived too late to save the man. Park officials determined that the female grizzly was defending her two

A man is recovering in the hospital after a bizarre attack in which a black bear swam across a river, jumped onto a dock then into his boat and mauled him. The 54-year-old fisherman had just returned to a marina in a tiny coastal community on an island in British Colombia, Canada, on Tuesday evening when the bear attacked him. He was cleaning salmon in the Port Renfrew marina office

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee -- An 8-year-old Florida boy had just scrambled up a creek embankment ahead of his father and older brother during a day hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park when he confronted an 86-pound male black bear. "The bear was staring at me," Evan Pala of Boca Raton said in an interview Tuesday. "Then he just stood up [on his hind legs] and jumped on me. Before he

Every bear encounter is different, and no advice can guarantee your safety. However, these guidelines developed by some of North America's most authoritative bear experts could help: The first step is to determine whether a bear is acting defensively or offensively. A defensive bear is one you have surprised, which can elicit an extremely rapid attack. If such a bear strikes or bites, you should drop to the ground (keeping your pack on),