Thanks for the ping, George.
Black bears must have a tendency to bite people in the butt when they go after them.
A cousin of mine in So OR had hounds for hunting cougar and bear before it was outlawed in OR. In the off season he would take the dogs out and run a cat or bear to keep the dogs in condition.
He took his son who was about 12 at the time with him and the dogs treed a bear. He leashed the dogs and told his son to head them back to the truck. As soon as they were a ways away that bear came down out of the tree and was after my cousin, he said he didn’t get far and the bear had him and bit him in the butt. He was hollering for his son to loose the dogs and fortunately his son heard him and did.
He didn’t get hurt other than a few punture wounds like this guy got but his pride was hurt, he didn’t like to talk about it. lol
I assume that most predators would like to try to take down their prey from behind.
Turning one’s back on any aggressor would be bad. The only thing worse would be to try to run away ?