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In reply to the discussion: Yellowstone grizzly euthanized, cubs sent to facility [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)18. Right, and let's not forget that nature tends to cull overly aggressive animals.
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There is a big difference between defending your cubs and acting on eating a person.
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#5
I was wrong, they sent to a "facility", accredited. I'm not sure where, looks like they'll
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#6
It is that that this one bear has likely developed a new taste for hiker meat. Easy pickings too.
Hortensis
Aug 2015
#11
Funny, but how many demands? A great wave resulting in suicide fencing at all falls, perhaps?
Hortensis
Aug 2015
#32
Research has shown relocating bears doesn't work. They go back home, eating what they
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#9
Right, and let's not forget that nature tends to cull overly aggressive animals.
Hortensis
Aug 2015
#18
Bear has learned that humans are edible and tasty. Likely to look for this food source again. nt
IphengeniaBlumgarten
Aug 2015
#14
Actually, it really, really does. Check with the experts. The Park Service employs lots of them.
Hortensis
Aug 2015
#19
The bear is dying because she ate and cached the hiker. Not because a hiker was in her
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#23
Yes, but the bear didn't "die because a hiker was in its habitat" but because she ate and stored
uppityperson
Aug 2015
#39