"Bear euthanized after Mont. mauling" by Associated Press | July 31, 2010
BILLINGS, Mont. — Wildlife officials euthanized a grizzly bear yesterday after DNA tests determined that the sow and her cubs were responsible for a triple mauling that killed a Michigan man and injured two other campers.
The state Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Department said hair, saliva, and tissue samples tested in a DNA identification lab in Laramie, Wyo., confirmed the adult bear was the same one that rampaged through Soda Butte Campground near Yellowstone National Park early Wednesday....
Authorities said the bear family, under the tutelage of the mother, targeted campers — a departure from the usual behavior of grizzlies attacking only when threatened or surprised.
Terror training?
It's an animal! It's operating off instinct and intrusion of its territory!
Unless you want to elevate animal intelligence levels and feelings -- they are sentient beings that feel pain -- and subscribe other human qualities to them.
Maybe then animals will receive better treatment than they currently do from humans.
Evidence indicated all three cubs participated in what Warden Captain Sam Sheppard called a sustained attack on Kevin Kammer of Grand Rapids, Mich....
Maybe they were just hungry, anyone ever think of that?
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And treat them as you would treat a human being!
"Grizzly cubs in attack malnourished" by Associated Press | August 2, 2010
BILLINGS, Mont. — Three grizzly bear cubs whose mother killed one person and mauled two others in an attack at a Montana campground were malnourished and still in their winter coats....
Oh, they were HUNGRY and UP LATE because of the RECORD COLD, huh?
Jackie Worstell, zoo executive director, said yesterday the two female cubs and one male cub showed signs of stress that may help explain their mother’s unusually aggressive behavior....
The 300- to 400-pound sow was euthanized Friday after DNA tests confirmed that she and her cubs were responsible for the triple mauling....
How human! Or is that humane!?
So now three grizzly cubs are without a mommy, huh?
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Could this be related?
HELENA, Mont. — A federal judge in Montana has ruled that a US Forest Service plan to spray herbicide from helicopters over the Kootenai National Forest does not adequately protect dozens of grizzly bears.
US District Judge Donald Molloy says such frequency and duration would probably have an adverse effect on the bears. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued the Forest Service over the weed-spraying plan, saying it would drive bears from their habitat and could be harmful to people in the Libby area....
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