Posted on 05/02/2023 11:13:40 AM PDT by marktwain
U.S.A. – In Italy, Andrea Papi, a young man running for exercise, was killed by an aggressive European brown bear. European brown bears are essentially the same species as American grizzly/brown bears. From Nature World News:
Fear and rage spread throughout the area after Andrea Papi was fatally attacked by the aggressive bear while jogging above the town of Caldes in the Brenta Dolomites on the slopes of Mt. Peller. Papi is the first Italian reported to have died in the last few years at the hands of a bear.
In Italy, bears are a protected species, and since they were reintroduced to the area two decades ago, their population has been growing recently.
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JJ4’s biological parents had been transported from Slovenia to northern Italy as part of the “Life Ursus” European conservation project. On Mount Peller in 2020, it had already attacked and hurt a father and son who were hiking.
For most of the history of homo sapiens, bears have been known to be dangerous. There are accounts of problems with bears in the Old Testament. Bears, especially brown/grizzly bears, have been a danger to humans and their food supplies in Eurasia throughout recorded history. The Eurasian brown/grizzly bears are a relatively recent immigrant to North America south of Canada, appearing somewhat after early human immigrants to the same area about 15,000 – 16,000 years ago.
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They’re not endangered.
Liberals are shocked, SHOCKED, that nature will eat them.
England killed off its bears and deadly animals long ago and they do fine.
Normally passive black bears have taken to breaking into people’s homes around here and mauling dogs, biting women...
How do they know they’re women?
Can't fool a bear's nose.
Yogi for Supreme Court!!
“How do they know they’re women?”
It’s likely that the bear communicated with the moose that bit my sister...
The real threat...
OMG, we are all going to die. Yogi has rabies.
Support your right to arm bears.
“in 2020, it had already attacked and hurt a father and son who were hiking.”
The question is why is this bear still alive if it attacked someone three years ago?
The polar bear population shot up when they discovered the city landfill. And black bears love dumpsters.
Same in Florida with Black Bears. We are up to our ears in bears.................
Hey, sometimes you get the bear, and . . . . .
I’ve always liked animals better than people and I really can’t” bear “killing them. Can’t they be deported to safer areas?
Expand the production of .44 Magnums.
Perhaps bears should be on SCOTUS.
Well; to put it bluntly and crudely, “THEY CAN SMELL’EM”!
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