On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:01:19 -0500, Cyli
wrote:

Following up my own post. Distinction to be made between maulings and
killings. You may get mauled on the way to being killed, so a death
would cover both, but most bloody difficulties with bears don't come
to death. The last US death by black bear I recall reading about was
that woman in Tennessee or somewhere in the southern mountains a year
or three back. Husband left her on the trail while he went fishing
and came back to find a bear and cub having a nibble of her dead body.
I don't, in this case, recall if the bear killed her or if it found
her dead or she ran from it and fell and got knocked out. Bear and
cub hunted down and killed in that case.



Cyli
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Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

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