Great Smoky Mountains Bear FoundScavenging On Human Remains

Many many years ago as a student pilot I took a survival course on how to survive a crash in the bush.

The subject of bears came up, the instructor said something to the effect of ‘A bear can smell raw meat for 2 miles, 5 if it’s cooking or rotting.’ One of the other students asked how well can the bears differentiate between food and humans.

I can still hear the instructors answer......... “To a bear there is NO difference, it’s all food.”