Survival Skills of Bears

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Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock.

Now I carried a gun only when I expected to live off the land or when I expected to run into people. Grizzlies seldom attacked people, and then it was usually only mothers protecting cubs. Still, I remembered with a chill at Bato reading in a sports magazine an account of two young women who were killed by two different grizzlies on the same night during 1967 in Glacier National Park. I had to remember that this animal was regarded as the most dangerous to man on the North American continent.

Once I watched a young bear mock-charge across a field, stampeding a herd of seven elk. Another time an adult grizzly circled three bull bison, closing to within thirty feet, until one of the buffalo lowered his head and thrust his horns toward the bear, who backed off thirty yards, then circled the bison again. Reply