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Alaska Bear Mauling Recorded on Tape
Yahoo ^ | October 8, 2003 | Rachel D'Oro

Posted on 10/08/2003 6:50:57 PM PDT by lambo

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The graphic sounds of a fatal bear attack were recorded, Alaska state troopers discovered Wednesday while reviewing a tape recovered near the bodies of a wildlife author and his girlfriend.

Trooper Chris Hill said Timothy Treadwell may have been wearing a wireless microphone likely activated when he was attacked by the brown bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The videotape has audio only; the screen remains blank for the three-minute recording.

"They're both screaming. She's telling him to play dead, then it changes to fighting back. He asks her to hit the bear," Hill said. "There's so much noise going on. I don't know what's him and what might be an animal."

The bodies of Treadwell, 46, and Amie Huguenard, 37, both of Malibu, Calif., were found near Kaflia Bay on Monday after an air taxi pilot arrived to pick them up. The pilot contacted the National Park Service and state troopers to report a brown bear was apparently sitting on top of human remains at the campsite.

After rangers arrived one of them shot and killed a large brown bear when the animal charged through the dense brush. Rangers and troopers later killed a smaller bear apparently stalking them.

An autopsy on the human remains confirmed Wednesday the couple were killed by bears.

Troopers recovered video and still photography equipment as well as three hours of video footage from the site, across Shelikof Strait from Kodiak Island.

Much of the footage is close-up shots of bears — for which Treadwell was well-known.

Some scenes show bears no more than a few feet from Treadwell, co-author of "Among Grizzlies: Living With Wild Bears in Alaska." Others show a more timid Huguenard leaning away as bears come close to her on the bank of a river.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: amiehuguenard; animalrights; audiotape; bear; bearattacks; czechinthemale; darwin; holdmybear; huguenard; killed; sometimesabeargetsu; sometimesyougetabear; timothytreadwell; treadwell
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To: shotgun
Ug. That man needs a tourniquet.
161 posted on 10/09/2003 3:54:43 PM PDT by skeeter (Fac ut vivas)
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To: skeeter
My dad had a saying that went like this: "The closer to the bone, the sweeter the meat!"

From the looks of it this bear must have thought this guys leg was made of pure honey!

162 posted on 10/09/2003 4:00:31 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: LasVegasMac
Saw this cartoon in the local paper when I was in Alaska...

Two bears standing on the front porch of a house. Through the picture window you see a guy sitting on the couch, watching TV. One bear turns to the other and says, "Wait to you see this! Just hit that button (door bell) and a snack pops out!"

Sounds like The Far Side, Gary Larson seemed to really enjoy using bears in his strip. I remember one with two polar bears... one was looking on as the other leaned against a shattered igloo, smacking his lips. "Ooh, I just LOVE these things! Crunchy on the outside, with a chewy center!"

163 posted on 10/09/2003 4:58:51 PM PDT by Cloud William
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To: shotgun
Man's best weapon is the 3.5 lbs of gray matter that separates us from all the rest of the animal kingdom... our bear expert failed to properly use his, as did the gnawed on bloke... however, the hunter in the bottom picture thankfully, used his good wits and is around to tell about it...
164 posted on 10/09/2003 5:33:11 PM PDT by freepersup (find the enemy... destroy the enemy... remain vigilant)
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To: ALASKA
I live up here in bear country too.
I decided to get a bigger bear gun when it took three (well placed) shots from a .338 to kill a 600 pounder that got into my garage a couple of years ago.
Check this out!
http://www.wildwestguns.com/CoPilot_And_Guide_Rifles/body_copilot_and_guide_rifles.html
I opted for the "copilot" in the .50 Alaskan ; 450 grains of .50 cal moving at 2050fps, more than 4200 foot pounds of energy!
Great moose gun too.
One shot, one kill!
165 posted on 10/09/2003 8:11:01 PM PDT by Species8472 (No Freedom - Without Sacrifice)
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To: freepersup
Which is which???
166 posted on 10/10/2003 6:35:44 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (Feeling my age, but wanting to feel older)
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To: shotgun
I don't know if I posted this on this thread or not, but when you carefully examine the photo, you realize that at least the bear had enough class not to steal the guys tennis shoes. A low life human would have taken the shoes.
167 posted on 10/10/2003 6:38:49 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (Feeling my age, but wanting to feel older)
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To: Cloud William
There is another one out where the bears are looking at two picnicers and discussing the fact that God gave them big claws and big teeth to use on more than just eating honey.
168 posted on 10/10/2003 6:40:58 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (Feeling my age, but wanting to feel older)
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To: skull stomper
I have one of these for porch dusting ~ with eight rifled slugs in tube it would get a bear's attention :)

Mossberg 500 PorchDuster.

169 posted on 10/10/2003 11:24:25 AM PDT by blackie
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To: Cloud William
"They're both screaming. She's telling him to play dead.

This reminds me more of that Far Side cartoon where the man and wife explorers are in a canoe being chomped down by a huge alligator and the wife is yelling "Rub his belly, Ernie. Rub his belly!"

170 posted on 10/10/2003 11:29:14 AM PDT by Jim Cane
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To: Species8472
I opted for the "copilot" in the .50 Alaskan ; 450 grains of .50 cal moving at 2050fps, more than 4200 foot pounds of energy!

Ooooh, takedown lever-actions! Thanks for the link... I've had a hankering for one of those for a while. I suppose alligators qualify as "dangerous critters that take a lot o' killing", so I might yet justify the purchase. Then there's the obvious home-defense value (one can only imagine what a .50 Alaskan loaded with a Glaser Safety Slug would do to a home invader).

Is yours Marlin-based, or another brand of beefy lever-gun? I've seen a Winchester 71 rebarrelled in .50 Alaskan.

171 posted on 10/10/2003 4:08:04 PM PDT by Cloud William
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To: Calpernia
Yep I used to be on a hunting forum and some guy kept us all informed about the situation there. Irritating. We have bears in the Minneapolis suburbs now, and wolves too. Once or twice there have been cougars too.
172 posted on 10/14/2003 12:11:01 PM PDT by Terriergal ("multipass!")
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To: Calpernia
I hate the suburbs - give me a rural way out there home where I can legally keep putting the fear of man in those critters when I have to.
173 posted on 10/14/2003 12:11:57 PM PDT by Terriergal ("multipass!")
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To: flying Elvis
You think that girl friend was getting ready to dump you any-ways...she would have known better to tell anybody to challenge a bull like that!?
174 posted on 11/05/2003 1:20:53 PM PST by mdmathis6
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To: skull stomper
What about a well placed blast to the middle of the snout(shotgun), or throat if bear is standing?
175 posted on 11/05/2003 1:25:14 PM PST by mdmathis6
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