Bears as Predators ~

[Dr Panthera]

Peter has a great point regarding "the individuality" of animals, science is concerned with the patterns, the norms, the regular and repetitive behavior..so not much is devoted to how an individual animal has a personality different than its conspecifics, yet any person who studied a group of animals for a while from a sheep herder to the most renowned field biologist can attest on how different animals have different personalities.
Another gruesome man-eating episode happened in Kruger in the late 90's, illegal immigrants from Mozambique infiltrated into South Africa at night through the national parks that form the border areas between the two countries, the Greater Limpopo Ecosystem, some lions started preying on these unfortunate refugees, and then proceeded to take more and more victims which they clearly distinguished from other humans eventually when the refugees stopped coming through the area the lions staring attacking other humans in daylight and needed to be put down.
American black bears continue to be the main predator of humans in North America outside the arctic area they account to more "eaten" humans than grizzly bears, cougars, and wolves despite more frequent attacks on humans and human fatalities by the first two. Reply