How do you distinguish between the two, when the victim/s did not survive?
Grizzly bears often cover up their prey to feed on later. Easier to pull appart and eat after it has decayed a bit...
A number of the attacks are listed as predatory by the investigating authorities.
“How do you distinguish between the two, when the victim/s did not survive?”
Predatory behavior isn’t exclusive to humans.
“How do you distinguish between the two, when the victim/s did not survive?”
Predator:
an animal that naturally preys on others.
“wolves are major predators of rodents”
I think that’s the confusion here I’m talking about a hunting methodology and your talking about attacks on human beings exclusively.
If you’re up in the ice and a polar bear gets your sniff you are the target, they will target/hunt and they will ambush/attack.
If you’re down south in Alaska and a grizzly bear gets your scent it just might leave you alone or check you out or you might have pressured the bear into a response, or come between cubs and the sow band then they’ll take action but not necessarily. They are not hunting you they want the invasive presence to back off. Those varieties are opportunistic... they’ll eat a berry bush, or raid a trash can.
I spent a lot of time in Alaska, I lived on Kodiak Island when I was spending time in the Coast Guard, did a lot of fishing, bears would walk up take your fish and you let him have them but they wouldn’t attack humans specifically unless they were pressured.