On the news: bear attack

westend wrote:

loulou57 wrote:

navegator wrote:
Bears only "attack" if they are startled, cornered or have cubs, this bear probablly smelled food in the RV or some IDIOT fed it some food from a trailer door and this one was looking for food.

With all the fires that have destroyed so much food for all the animals it does not surprice me one bit if these animals are going hungry.

I am very happy that only the trailer is damaged and no one else, the kids must have been terrified.

navegator

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I am sorry but Bears do not only attack for the reasons suggested. Bears do stalk humans and do kill just to kill.

Do you have some reference to this statement?

Actually yes... A Dr from our area was stalked and killed by a bear at a place we frequent. Look online...woman killed by bear near Chapleau Ontario.
We knew the couple, we were there. The bear had been following them. The husband noticed every time they came ashore the same bear showed up shortly after. I won't get into details that were not made public but this bear did not kill her for food. There was no way she would have been revived by the Dr's. That came upon them. This has happened more times than this incident. Not every case hits the news.