"Floyd L. Davidson" wrote in message
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"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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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.)

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


Floyd,

Living in Barrow I will assume you have more than average exposure to Polar
Bears. As you are aware they have been getting exceptionally aggressive over
the last 10-20 years. Even to the point of breaking into buildings. And they
do eat most, if not all, of their kill immediately. But we're not talking
Polar Bears.

I am sure you are also aware that humans have been buried alive after having
been mauled. (not eaten until the bear was full), in the back country of
Denali. There is more than one documented case where an EPIRB "saved" a bear
victims life.

I am willing to bet that we could both do a little research and come up with
citations to back up each observation. BTW, Treadwell and his companion were
buried.
http://outside.away.com/outside/news...rothers_1.html

I based my statement on the fact the the wounds to that hiker's leg appeared
very clean, with no debris in the wound, and the color of the remaining
flesh at the leg was still rather bright instead of "cooked". No sign of
having been buried. My experience comes from decades of hiking in the
Chugach Mountains around Anchorage and fishing/hiking the trail systems
around Seward and Kenai. I believe these are the highest bear encounter
areas of the state. However, as I stated in my post, it could have been a
wolf or a young bear attack. From just the photo there is insufficient
evidence to claim strongly in either direction.

As for your assertion that there are no documented cases that could be
attributed to wolves. Read what the State of Alaska has to say.
http://wildlife.alaska.gov/pubs/tech...chb13_full.pdf
(adobe.pdf)

The idea that a healthy wolf will not attack humans is just plain false.
Maybe this comes from tree huggers? I don't know. Who knows how wilderness
lore gets started? It does appear that a percentage of the documented
attacks involve wolves who were discovered to have rabies.



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Ric Hamel
A misplaced Alaskan lost in ConUS