Oh, they do, but very rare for black bears. Remember a few years ago one dragged that young girl out of a tent in the night? They guessed it was her honey shampoo that drew him/her in as I recall.
Just seems most of these bold bears have been acclimated to equating people with food.
I would say that is the most common case. But in Alaska, Canada, and other places where there are not many people, the bears likely had no dealings with people and just saw and smelled another potential prey.
“Just seems most of these bold bears have been acclimated to equating people with food.”
That has occurred because enviro-communism has removed the citizen’s 2nd Amendment rights. When large bodied predators are not regularly shot and killed by humans, said predators loose the fear that our ancestors had created with constant hunting/shooting.
When gunpowder speaks, beasts obey.
For most of man’s history, he was just a slow moving, easy to kill, source of protein. Gunpowder made man the pinnacle predator.
Enviro-socialism put the beastly behavior back in the beasts.
Remember :
John Chelminiak who was mauled by the black bear at the end of the driveway to his holiday home in Lake Wenatchee, Washington. ?
He had been out walking his dogs when the bear struck and could be heard shouting “I’m dying” as he was attacked by a bear outside his home.