Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock.

Some males - usually big and presumably dominant, prime-year grizzlies - treat everything they encounter with aggression when the mating juices are running. "Everything" means mostly other grizzlies, but when bears are agitated they often redirect aggression without discrimination - like a dog during a fight, they could turn on you. Statistics on grizzly-inflicted human injuries do not reflect this, because few people ever penetrate the last strongholds of grizzlydom, where even fewer bears hang out during early June. Even among this group of adventurers, the risk of injury is slight, nothing really compared to commuting from Santa Monica, or riding subways, or drinking more than one Black Russian a decade in the Babb Bar. Reply