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Posted on 08/19/2024 1:14:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Following a spate of predator attacks on hikers and park rangers in the US, Ally Hirschlag investigates why animals attack humans in the wild.
Keri Bergere was on a Saturday afternoon bike ride with her friends on the heavily-forested Tokul Creek trail near Fall City, Washington, when two cougars ran out in front of them. One went off into the woods, but the other turned around and, within seconds, had pulled the 60-year-old woman off her bike. "We didn't have a chance to face off with them to scare them away or anything," her friend, Annie Bilotta, told the local news station.
The young cougar clamped down on Bergere's face and would not let go for 15 minutes. Her friends tried everything: they hit it repeatedly with sticks, brought a 25-pound (11.4kg) boulder down on its head and stabbed it with a small knife, all while Bergere kept poking it in the eyes and mouth. When the cougar finally released for a moment and Bergere could get away, her friends pushed a bike on top of it, holding it down until help arrived. Bergere survived but sustained significant, permanent nerve damage to her face.
In Haines Junction, Yukon, Vanessa Chaput was out for a run with her dog when she saw three grizzly bears. As a Kaska woman who grew up encountering apex predators, Chaput knew to give them a wide berth, she told APTN News. But when her dog got off-leash, one of the bears charged her and clamped its jaws onto her head. Luckily, she'd been wearing a claw clip that broke in the bear’s mouth, startling it enough to release her. Her dog's barking then distracted the bear long enough for her to run to the highway and call for help. She was left with puncture wounds
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Because we like to eat them.
Overpopulation and under-hunting to keep them in fear of humans are the actual reasons.
Since WA/OR/CA did away with dog assisted hunting of big cats, the population has exploded, driving the younger cats closer to human habitation. They have no fear of humans anymore.
Groups of humans accompanied by baying hounds tended to instill fear and avoidance of all humans in them.
As apparently do they, us.
Lack of guns?
All women, jogging or biking in the wilderness. Then amazed when something sees them as prey.
I think it was on the series, “Mountain Men” some fellas with dog packs made a living chasing big cats for miles back into high country. Those are some brave hound dogs!
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Oh, my.
Even dogs will chase bikes. It is instinct.
LOL — good ol’ Gary Larson
I guess Ally figured out that bears aren’t safer than men.
If this were a Dem site, we’d be talking about our spirit animals instead of sports mascots...
Or protecting their young
“Why Do Animals Attack Humans in the Wild?”
Because that’s what happens when the media bashes Trump and his supporters, NON-STOP.
Easy food source. 🙄
Some do some don’t
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