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发帖数: 1526 | 1 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/08/us-grizzly-yellowston
Grizzly roams free after fatal Yellowstone mauling
By Ruffin Prevost
CODY, Wyoming | Fri Jul 8, 2011 12:21am EDT
(Reuters) - The female grizzly bear that attacked and killed a hiker when
apparently startled with two cubs will be allowed to continue roaming free
in Yellowstone National Park after officials determined the animal had acted
to protect its young.
A probe of Wednesday's fatal bear mauling, the first in Yellowstone since
1986, suggests the mother grizzly was provoked by a perceived threat from
the hiker and his wife when they encountered the animal and its cubs
foraging for food.
"The bear's behavior is consistent with a bear who was in a defensive
posture," Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk said during a news conference
at park headquarters in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming. "We did not see
anything predatory in terms of the bear's actions."
The grizzly believed to have been involved in the attack is being monitored
from the air by Yellowstone rangers for now to keep tabs on its movements,
park officials said. The bear has never been captured or tagged and has no
record of previous aggression or interactions with humans.
The decision not to capture or kill the animal was announced as additional
details of the attack were made public by the National Park Service.
The victim, Brian Matayoshi, 57, of Torrance, California, near Los Angeles,
was hiking with his wife, Marylyn, on the Wapiti Lake Trail and happened on
the family of bruins as the couple emerged from a forested area into an open
meadow.
The hikers first spotted a bear about 100 yards away and began walking in
the other direction, but when they turned to look back they saw the female
grizzly charging at them down the trail, according to an account issued by
park officials.
WIFE SURVIVES BY PLAYING DEAD
The couple began running, but the bear caught up to them and attacked the
husband, then approached the wife, who had fallen to the ground nearby.
"The bear bit her daypack, lifting her from the ground and then dropping her
," the park statement said, but the woman remained still and the grizzly
lumbered off.
The woman then walked back toward the meadow, and began shouting for help,
attracting the attention of a distant group of hikers who managed to call
for assistance by cell phone.
Two park rangers arrived on the scene within 20 minutes, but the man was
dead from his wounds, which included multiple bite and clawing injuries.
The bear and her two 6-month-old cubs had been spotted in the area before
the attack, and have been seen since. A warning sign had been posted at the
trailhead based on known bear activity in the area, which is not uncommon.
Park rangers have gathered samples of feces and hair left behind by the bear
for DNA fingerprinting to check against any potential future incidents.
Park officials say bears that become aggressive toward people and pose a
continuing threat to human safety are captured and either removed from the
park or destroyed.
But the bear linked to Wednesday's incident is not believed to have had any
previous contact with park visitors.
The fatal attack occurred about a mile and a half from the start of the
Wapiti Lake trail as the couple hiked west back toward their parked vehicle.
Trails throughout a 6,400-acre (100-square-mile) backcountry area around the
site of the incident, will remain closed until rangers are confident they
are safe for hikers, officials said. The closure represents a tiny fraction
of Yellowstone's 2.2 million acres.
The South Rim Road had been closed overnight as a precaution, but has since
reopened. The road leads to Artist Point, a popular overlook offering
unobstructed views of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River and the
Lower Falls.
WOMAN SURVIVED WITHOUT INJURY
Wenk said the man urged his wife to run before he was knocked down. The wife
took refuge near a fallen tree and played dead, surviving the incident
without injury.
Kerry Gunther, a Yellowstone wildlife biologist, said the couple generally
acted correctly in trying to back away, and that the appropriate action when
attacked is to play dead.
Running is not advised, and most biologists recommend standing still when a
bear makes a defensive charge, which is often a bluff meant to intimidate,
Gunther said.
The couple, who were visiting Yellowstone for the fourth time, were not
carrying bear spray, which officials say is usually effective in deterring
bear attacks.
An unusually snowy winter has meant that bears have stayed in lower
elevations later into the summer than normal, Gunther said, although they
are beginning to move to higher elevations as lingering snow melts away.
Bear maulings are extremely rare. Gunther said the odds of such an attack
were "1 in 3 million". The grizzly was no more likely to attack humans again
after Wednesday's encounter.
The park sees about one bear-related injury a year, Gunther said. No
visitors were hurt by bears in Yellowstone last year, and the mauling marked
the first human death caused by a bear in the park since 1986, the National
Park Service said.
But a mother grizzly killed a man and injured two other people in an unusual
night-time attack on sleeping campers just outside Yellowstone in Montana
last July. The bear involved in that incident was later trapped and
destroyed because the attacks were considered unprovoked and predatory.
In a separate incident that month, a different bear attacked and killed a
botanist hiking in Wyoming just east of Yellowstone. That bear had been
trapped and tranquilized by researchers earlier that day. It was later shot
and killed.
Park officials have not yet completed their annual bear counts this year but
typically find an average of about 15 females with new cubs each year,
Gunther said.
Biologists believe at least 600 bears live in the greater Yellowstone
ecosystem, while some estimates put the number at 1,000 or more.
(Additional reporting and writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Cynthia
Johnston) | j*a
发帖数: 14423 | 2 看来确实快要爆了 动物也改变习性了
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【在 B****a 的大作中提到】
: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/08/us-grizzly-yellowston
: Grizzly roams free after fatal Yellowstone mauling
: By Ruffin Prevost
: CODY, Wyoming | Fri Jul 8, 2011 12:21am EDT
: (Reuters) - The female grizzly bear that attacked and killed a hiker when
: apparently startled with two cubs will be allowed to continue roaming free
: in Yellowstone National Park after officials determined the animal had acted
: to protect its young.
: A probe of Wednesday's fatal bear mauling, the first in Yellowstone since
: 1986, suggests the mother grizzly was provoked by a perceived threat from
| p****j
发帖数: 4762 | 3 去年那2个熊凭什么要被trapped and killed? 人类太自私了！ | R***a
发帖数: 41892 | 4 去年的熊是主动攻击宿营地，你不杀的话下次还去
【在 p****j 的大作中提到】
: 去年那2个熊凭什么要被trapped and killed? 人类太自私了！
| p****j
发帖数: 4762 | 5 那也不该杀，而应该要那群人不许再去那一片camping了。
深山野林，本来就是人家熊的领地。 | l**a
发帖数: 12455 | 6 熊也挺自私的，闲着没事去camp site咬死没招它没惹它的人。。。咬死了对它自
己也什么好处都没有。。。损人不利己 | w*****3
发帖数: 1582 | 7 这个说明
1 母熊带着小熊是非常非常危险的，因为母熊要保护小熊。
2 装死要比逃跑管用。
去年那个熊在营地攻击，有可能是营地里的食物没有收好，或者是之前的人的食物曾经
没有收好过。 | t*****a
发帖数: 1002 | 8 别装B了，谁的领地就是谁的话，现在黄石是印第安人的，你也别来美国
再往后推，中国也不是中国，都是黄河流域几千个部落，也没中文这种语言
再往后推，我们都该当猴子住在山里树上采野果，平原地区那是其他动物的领地
【在 p****j 的大作中提到】
: 那也不该杀，而应该要那群人不许再去那一片camping了。
: 深山野林，本来就是人家熊的领地。
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