"Alaskan420" wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
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Warning: There's seriously gruesome photo in this article.

http://mountainsurvival.com/news_art...earattack.html

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There is another reason to doubt the truthfulness of picture #3.

The only truth that lacked in the picture/story was the
implication that there was a connection between the description
and pictures in the first part of the story with that particular
body.

I have no reason to doubt that picture #3 was in fact the
remains of someone eaten by a bear. It could be that something
else ate him, but there is nothing to suggest it wasn't a bear.
(The problem is that we don't know if that was even in Alaska,
much less do we really know what happened to it.)

Alaskan
Browns have this funny habit of burying their kills for a few days to
ferment the meat and then circling around their territory and coming back
3-4 days later after it's cooked to taste. ( See Bear Spray recipe.) I have
run across numerous mounds over the years with moose calves and smaller
adult moose in them.

But that is *only* after they eat as much as they can to begin
with, and when the bear wants to come back and eat more.
Commonly they do that with moose, and commonly they *don't* do
that with humans. (Note that the remains of Timothy Treadwell
and his companion were not buried either, if I remember right.)

This hiker actually looks more like what would be expcted of a wolf attack,

I've read your other posts, and thought until this one that you
seemed to have a pretty good perspective. However, that
statement is hilarious!

Nobody in North America has *ever* found a human that was eaten
by wolves, so it is pretty difficult to know what one would look
like.

(not to cross threads here), or immature brown, unless the photo was taken
after rescuers began to prepare him for removal.

It looks just like what one would expect if a bear ate it.
Could be a brown bear or a black bear too. Off hand I can't
think of anything else likely to do that.

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Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)