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Post by brobear on May 17, 2017 7:26:21 GMT -5
www.japanpowered.com/folklore-and-urban-legends/kesagake-the-man-eater Kesagake the Man Eater Sometimes humans get a bit cocky. After all, our big brains and ability to produce advanced technology put us head and shoulders above other animals, especially when it comes to killing power. Nobody can contest the fact that humans are the apex predator on planet Earth, but now and then nature reminds us that, when you strip away all our technology, we are nothing more than week, naked apes. One such event occurred in Sankebetsu, Japan, between December 9 and 14, 1915, when a brown bear awoke early from hibernation and proceeded to terrorize the local population for five days. The incident began when Kesagake, a huge Ussuri brown bear, appeared near the Ikeda homestead, in mid November, and spooked the family horse. When the bear reappeared, the Ikeda men went after it and managed to wound it with gunfire. Thinking the bear would now fear humans, they decided not to track it further. However, as it turned out they were terribly mistaken. Kesagake returned to the area on December 9, where he entered the Ota family home. The woman of the house, Abe Mayu, was caring for a neighbor’s child, Hasumi Mikio, when the bear attacked. Kesagake first bit Mikio in the head, killing him, and then proceeded to attack Mayu, dragging her off into the forest. Rescuers later described the inside of the house as looking like a “slaughterhouse.” The next day, 30 men attempted to track the bear. It wasn’t long before they came upon Kesagake. One man managed to hit the animal, forcing it to retreat. They found Mayu’s remains, her head and parts of her legs, cached in a snow bank, not far from where the attack occurred. The no doubt shaken search party realized they had a man eater on their hands. They hatched a plan to kill the beast, by setting a trap for it at the Ota house, assuming it would return again in search of food. A group of 50 guardsmen were stationed at the Miyoke house, 300 meters away. Sure enough, that night the man eater returned. Another villager managed to score a hit, and the bear withdrew. The villagers took off after their quarry, and the guardsmen stationed at the Miyoke house joined them. Kesegake showed the cunning seemingly inherent to a man eater, eluding his hunters and circling back to the Miyoke house. The bear crashed through the front window and proceeded to maul everyone inside, including a pregnant woman who reportedly begged for her life. Yayo, the homeowner’s wife, managed to escape and tell the returning guardsmen what had occurred. The guards surrounded the house, but in the fear and confusion of the moment they missed their shots and Kesagake managed to escape again. After the attack, only veterans of the Russo-Japanese War remained at their posts; the rest fled. A sniper team was assembled by regional authorities after the attack on the Miyoki homestead, but the marksmen could not find the beast. Finally, locals turned to a famed bear hunter named Yamamoto Heikigachi to kill the man eater. They had approached him after the initial attacks, but he refused. He had traded his gun for the bottle, in true washed-up-hero fashion, but after the Miyoke house attack he agreed to hunt down Kesagake. With a local guide, Yamamoto managed to track the bear and killed it with two shots, one to the heart and one to the head. The bear weighed in at 340 kg (749lbs) and measured 2.7 meters (almost 9 feet) in length. A necropsy performed later found human remains in the bear’s stomach, confirming that this was indeed the infamous Kesagake. All told, Kesagake was responsible for seven deaths, six during the attacks and one victim who died later. It remains to this day the worst bear attack in Japanese history. In the wake of the attacks, villagers abandoned the area, leaving it to the bears and the ghosts of the past.
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Post by Polar on May 17, 2017 11:49:11 GMT -5
Sloth Bear of Mysore en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth_bear_of_MysoreThe bear began its attacks in the Nagvara Hills, east to the town of Arsikere, 105 miles north-west of Bangalore in Mysore State. It made its home in the numerous boulder strewn hillocks, from where it would come down to forage in the fields. As its boldness increased, it began harassing people in both daylight and night-time hours. In typical sloth bear fashion, the animal attacked its victims' faces with its claws and teeth. Those who survived its attacks usually lost one or both eyes, some their noses while others had their cheeks bitten through. Those who died often had their faces completely torn from their heads. At least three of the victims had been partially eaten. The bear’s depredations first came to the attention of Kenneth Anderson when an aged Muslim friend of his named Alam Bux sent him a postcard, urgently asking him to come to his home, a shrine situated between Arsikere and Shimoga. Bux’s 22-year-old son had been fatally mauled by the bear at 9:00 p.m., having unintentionally disturbed it while it was feeding on fallen figs. Anticipating an easy hunt, Anderson did not come prepared for a long trip, having brought with him for the hunt just an electric torch, a .405 Winchester rifle, and a single change of clothes. Arriving at the shrine early in the evening, Anderson planned to wait until darkness to shoot the bear. Starting his search near fig trees, Anderson walked for a mile and a half without spotting the bear. He then unsuccessfully searched groundnut fields before finally returning to the shrine. For the rest of the night, Anderson made two subsequent tours, both of which proved unsuccessful. At noon the next day, Anderson was taken to the mouth of what was thought to be the bear's cave. After throwing stones into the crevice with no results, Anderson returned to Bangalore, asking Bux to inform him by telegram should the bear attack again. One month later, two woodcutters in Sakrepatna, a small town between Chikmagalur and Kadur, had been seriously mauled by the bear, one fatally. Anderson was contacted by the District Forest Officer of Chikmagalur who requested that Anderson come and shoot the bear. Anderson requested precise coordinates for the bear’s whereabouts, and was answered ten days later that the bear lived in a hillock three miles from the town, near a footpath leading to a lake called the Ionkere. It was also revealed that the bear had since mauled the Forest Guard during a regular patrol. Anderson left for Chikmagalur and set up his headquarters in a small house owned by the Mysore Forest Department. At 4:30 the next afternoon, a man rushed to the bungalow, stating that the bear had mauled his brother, a cattle grazer near the hill where the bear had allegedly laired. Setting forth with a rifle, a torch and three or four helpers, Anderson journeyed six miles into the jungle for an hour and a half before coming across a heavily scrubbed hill. The helpers refused to accompany him any further, and Anderson followed the general directions given by the victim’s brother of the attack's location. After searching for a while through the thick brush, Anderson heard the faint moans of the victim, whom he found lying at the foot of a tree, unconscious and severely mutilated. Realising that he was dying, Anderson carried the man for a short distance, before collapsing from a sprained ankle. The victim died at 5 in the morning, and Anderson was found later by Forest officials and a dozen villagers. He was hospitalised at Chikmagalur for a week before resuming the hunt. During Anderson’s absence,[when?] the bear had mauled two men along the path of Ionkere Lake. Anderson arrived at Sakrepatna where he was told that the bear had taken to visiting some fields bordered by Boram trees a mile from the village. Anderson arrived at the site at 5:00 pm and spent the night at the foot of the largest tree, hoping that the bear would come. At roughly 11:00 pm, Anderson heard the bear digging for roots in the distance, and an hour later, it approached the Boram tree. Anderson shone his torch at the bear, which reared up on its hind legs in alarm. Anderson then shot it in the chest.
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Post by brobear on May 17, 2017 15:32:34 GMT -5
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/18/olga-moskalyova_n_930464.html Russian Mom Hears Daughter’s Final Agony As She Is Eaten Alive By Bears A Russian mother listened helplessly on a cellphone to her teenage daughter crying for help earlier this week as she was eaten alive by bears. The horrified mother of Olga Moskalyova, a 19-year-old psychologist in training, heard her daughter’s desperate pleas for help after receiving a call from her daughter on a mobile phone. Tatiana Tsyganenkov listened in horror to the screams as her daughter was attacked by a brown bear and its three cubs Wednesday near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in eastern Siberia. According to The Daily Mail, Moskalyova screamed, “Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony. Mum, help!” Tsyganenkov said she initially thought her daughter was joking but quickly realized there was a desperate struggle going on and that her daughter was fighting for her life. “I heard the real horror and pain in Olga’s voice and the sounds of a bear growling and chewing. I could have died then and there from shock,” Tsyganenkov said, according to NineMSN. Moskalyova and her stepfather, Igor Tsyganenkov, were camping near a river in Russia when the mother bear attacked him. It reportedly broke his neck and smashed his skull. Having witnessed the attack, Moskalyova attempted to flee but was able to run only about 70 yards before the powerful brown bear grabbed her leg and forced her to the ground. During the struggle, the girl’s calls to her mother were cut off at least three times. The girl somehow managed to call her mother back each time. A helpless Tsyganenkov could only listen in horror to her daughter’s screams for mercy. In a second call to her mother, Moskalyova said, “Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They’re... eating me,” The Daily Mail reported. When the call was disconnected, a panic-stricken Tatiana Tsyganenkov contacted police in the nearby village of Termalniy and begged them to rush to the river where the attack was taking place. Moskalyova spoke with her mother one last time roughly an hour after she made the first call. “Mum, it’s not hurting anymore. I don’t feel the pain. Forgive me for everything. I love you so much,” she said. When authorities later arrived on the scene, they found Igor Tsyganenkov’s body. The mother bear was still devouring his remains when they came upon the scene, Dubai Media reported. Moskalyova’s badly mauled body was found not far away. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Half a dozen hunters were later dispatched to kill the mother bear and her three cubs. Authorities have not yet commented on whether the hunt succeeded. “My daughter was such fun. She was so cheerful, friendly, and warm,” Tatiana Tsyganenkov said, her words spoken in a voice diminished by grief. “She had graduated from music school, and just days before the bear attack she got her driving license.”
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Post by brobear on May 17, 2017 15:36:48 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/04/russian-town-besieged-by-hungry-bears Russian town besieged by hungry bears Shortages of nuts and berries have driven animals into towns to search for food, roaming the streets and scaring residents. Dozens of hungry bears have besieged a small town in Russia’s far east, roaming the streets and attacking residents. In the past month, more than 30 bears have entered inhabited areas in Russia’s Primorsky region, located between China, North Korea and the Sea of Japan. Local authorities have had to shoot at least two animals. Luchegorsk, a town of 21,000 on the river Kontrovod near the Chinese border, has been particularly affected. Two large bears – a brown bear and a Himalayan bear – are now “ruling over” Luchegorsk, wandering the streets and scaring local people, the Primorskaya newspaper reported. Asian black bears have also been seen, and a further three dozen bears are circling the town, according to other reports. Local people say they are afraid to leave their homes and that the streets are filled with the sounds of sirens and loudspeakers telling citizens not to go outside for their own safety, VladNews reported. In one case, bears reportedly ransacked bee hives kept by locals. Kindergartens have kept children inside. There is good reason for the caution: a dashcam recently captured footage of a bear jumping out from beneath a balcony to attack a man in Luchegorsk as he was walking his dog near the entrance to his apartment building. Another man was wounded in a bear attack at the local bus station. Vladimir Vasilyev, head of the Primorsky region’s animal control department, said the situation in Luchegorsk had “stabilised” thanks to the efforts of police and game wardens. “Law enforcement officers are using the sirens on their cars to chase away the bears and are shooting in the air to frighten them,” Vasilyev said, adding that some bears had been dispersed with fire hoses. “Two animals have had to be shot since the start of this invasion. They needed to be neutralised because they posed a real threat to humans and were attacking local residents.” Vasilyev was apparently referring to an incident on 24 August when a mother bear and her grown cub roamed the streets of Luchegorsk looking for food. After the cub attacked a man, police and game wardens shot both bears. The man was later taken to hospital. Advertisement Other reports put the number of bears killed higher. A game warden told the OTV Primorye channel he had to shoot a bear when it turned on him as he was trying to chase it out of Luchegorsk. Experts believe the hungry bears have been migrating to the Primorsky region from neighbouring Khabarovsk and China in search of food. The number of bears in Primorsky has also grown in recent years due to fewer hunters, Pavel Fomenko of the World Wildlife Fund told news agency Rosbalt. Poor yields this year of Manchurian walnuts, acorns, pine nuts and berries across all these areas have deprived the bears of their main sources of food to fatten up for winter hibernation, sending them into towns in looking to eat. Bear attacks have long been a problem in Russia in years when their food supplies run low. In the most extreme case, 270 bears were reportedly killed in four villages in Irkutsk province in 1968. A heatwave last summer coincided with a rash of bear attacks in Russia’s far east that left at least three people dead. In 2010, a scorching summer left bears in Siberia so hungry that some began digging up human graves. The bear invasion is unlikely to subside any time soon. “We predict that failing to find food in the taiga [boreal forest], bears will come to where people live more and more,” Vasilyev said.
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Post by brobear on May 17, 2017 15:41:08 GMT -5
www.bizarrepedia.com/timothy-treadwell/ Timothy and Amie: Final Cries of Couple Killed by Bear. Timothy Treadwell always had a natural curiosity and interest in animals. Ever since he was a young boy growing up in Long Island, New York, he adored all types of animals and kept wildlife creatures as personal pets. Treadwell’s teen and young adult years were full of disappointments. He was a struggling actor and eventually turned to alcoholism and drug addiction when he lost the role of Woody Boyd to actor Woody Harrleson in the popular show Cheers. Treadwell eventually gave up on trying to make a living by acting. He began to really figure out what his true calling in life was when he traveled to Alaska with a friend. While in Alaska, Treadwell spent time watching wild bears. It was then that he realized his passion was to spend as much time as he could studying and getting to know a variety of different bear species. Many would say that he quickly became obsessed with bears. Treadwell has even claimed that his love for bears was truly the one and only thing that helped him kick his alcohol and drug addictions. While Treadwell’s obsession with bears seemed to be bizarre, he began to form mutual bonds between the wild creatures and spent the majority of his waking hours playing, touching, and observing the large wild beasts in several different areas of the world, including the Katmai Coast and Kaflia Bay. He would spend hours taping and photographing bears in their natural habitat. Because his love for bears was so rare, he began to receive tons of national media attention. Treadwell appeared on the Late Show with David Lettermen, Dateline NBC, and even had his very own television specials on the Discovery Channel. Treadwell wrote a number of different books, but he is most known for his self- published work titled Among Grizzlies. Treadwell even had his own organization that focused on putting a stop to the poaching of bears. As you can see, Treadwell literally lived for bears and everything he did seemed to revolve around the bear species. In October, 2003, Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard traveled to Katami National Park. This would unfortunately be Treadwell’s last bear expedition. While in Katami National Park with his girlfriend, Treadwell spent the next few days capturing rare and unique footage of the bears that frequented the forest-like area. On October, 6th, 2003 a scheduled air taxi pilot arrived at the couple’s campsite to pick them up and take them back home. Unfortunately, once the pilot landed at the site, there was no sign of either Amie or Timothy. However, there was a large bear pacing the campsite area. Upon investigation, the taxi pilot and local park rangers found Treadwell’s disfigured head, right forearm, and partial spine. They also found Amie’s half-eaten body buried under twigs and dirt. Because campsite rangers believed that the large protective bear was the culprit in the killings, the bear was shot and killed. Following the bear’s death, a full necropsy was completed on the bear. The necropsy revealed that the bear had in-fact attacked, mauled, and eaten both Timothy and Amie. There were several limbs, toes, and fingers found in the bear’s stomach. Upon even further investigation, rangers stumbled across a video camera at the campsite. While the actual video footage was blank, there was clear sound that had been recorded. The sounds recorded on the video camera were of Amie and Timothy screaming, yelling, and begging for their lives while they were being mauled to death by the large grizzly. The agonizing sounds captured only lasted for about six minutes before the video camera ran out of tape. However, the six minutes of agonizing screaming was long enough to capture all of the horror that occurred during the last few minutes of the couple’s life. Following Treadwell’s death, director Werner Herzog decided to put together a documentary titled Grizzly Man. The documentary showcases all of Treadwell’s work with wildlife in Alaska. The television channel Animal Planet featured a mini-series based on Treadwell’s life titled The Grizzly Man Diaries in whichall of Treadwell’s accomplishments with bears were chronicled.
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Post by brobear on May 18, 2017 16:30:37 GMT -5
www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1226-5-terrifying-serial-killers-who-happened-to-be-animals.html The most dangerous animal on earth is man -- nothing you read in this article will change that. Animals kill for food and territory, and out of fear, but it takes a man to kill repeatedly, just for the fun of it. The most dangerous animal on earth is man -- nothing you read in this article will change that. Animals kill for food and territory, and out of fear, but it takes a man to kill repeatedly, just for the fun of it. The Face-Eating Sloth Bear of Mysore The Time: 1957 - The Place: Mysore, Near Bangalore The sloth bear of India sounds like the most harmless animal to carry the "bear" name outside of the koala. They're small and easy to tame, and they feed primarily on insects, using their gargantuan, sickle-shaped claws to pick bugs out of tree stumps and to bolster their grip while traversing the rugged mountain terrain. But as it happens, huge finger scythes are also just aces for tearing the human face clean off. That is precisely what the people of Nagvara Hills near Bangalore learned when a sloth bear decided to start murdering them. Survivors usually limped away missing one or both eyes, and all of those killed by the beast were found with their faces entirely removed. We're going to pause the article here so you can read that last sentence a couple more times. Over the course of several days, the enraged sloth bear mutilated about three dozen rural folk. It attacked both in broad daylight and at night, and seemed motivated solely by carnage rather than desperation or starvation. In fact, only three of its victims were even partially eaten. There are three theories as to what caused this sloth bear's insatiable hatred for human beings. Some say it was a mother sloth bear avenging her murdered cubs in the grizzliest fashion imaginable (we're not even sure if that was a pun or not). Another local legend claims the bear fell in love with a girl and was taking vengeance on the closed-minded villagers who kept them apart. Or maybe a painful injury simply drove the animal to madness. Whatever the cause of the sloth bear's rampage, it came to an end when Kenneth Anderson, a professional writer and monster hunter, shot the creature in the chest. Sloth bears aren't traditionally difficult to hunt, but Anderson had to make three separate attempts to stop the sickle-fingered face-eater.
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Post by Polar on Jan 3, 2018 13:28:49 GMT -5
Not 'man-eating beasts': Study suggests attacking polar bears young, hungry "Jim Wilder was a young researcher on the frozen Beaufort Sea when he had his first polar bear encounter.
'We were camped out on the sea ice in front of a maternal den waiting for (mama bear) to come out with her cubs,' he recalls. 'A polar bear came up and sniffed the tent, right where my head was, when I was sleeping in the middle of the night and went on its merry way.'
Wilder, now a scientist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska, is a co-author of a study analyzing all recorded cases of polar bear attacks on humans in the five countries where the animals live. He said his story shows why the popular idea of the great Arctic hunters as enthusiastic predators of humans is a myth.
'They're portrayed as these extremely dangerous man-eating beasts that are looking to attack people, which I think is fairly inaccurate.'
Attacks aren't that common, he said. Although he acknowledges his list is incomplete and doesn't include data from Arctic aboriginals, Wilder's team found only 73 recorded predatory attacks in the 144 years between 1870 and 2014, 20 of them fatal.
The study, published in the Wildlife Society Bulletin, also suggests fat 'n' happy polar bears don't hunt humans.
Nearly two-thirds of the attacks were by young adult bears who were starting to starve.
Almost all the attacks were by males, usually young. Of the 11 that weren't, most were females defending cubs.
Polar bears, said Wilder, avoid risk. Unlike black or grizzly bears, which can eat plants if necessary, polar bears must hunt.
'If they get injured, that impairs their ability to hunt,' he said. 'There isn't a lot of incentive for them to be aggressive — unless times are bad.'
'That seems to flip a switch. They seem to turn into a different beast.'
'Even yearling polar bears will hunt people if they're desperate,' Wilder said. And more than one-quarter of the attacks in the study occurred in towns.
Both circumstances are almost unheard of in grizzlies or black bears, he said.
Climate change could worsen conflicts
The findings suggest that human-bear conflicts are going to get worse as climate change whittles away at the sea ice the bears use as their main hunting platform for the fat-rich seals that form the biggest part of their diet. The report found that nearly nine in 10 attacks occurred between July and December, when the sea ice was at its lowest.
'If I lived in a coastal community, the things I would be worried about are loss of sea ice — more bears on shore, in poorer condition.'
Geoff York, another co-author, said some Canadian Arctic communities have already noticed changes.
'We had stories from northern residents where they said, 'Growing up as kids, we used to go camping on the land in our wall tents. We don't do that any more. We have a fixed cabin with hard walls.''
Many community residents — especially those along the shores of Hudson Bay, where sea ice retreat is extensive and bear health is declining — are asking to be trained as qualified bear spotters to help protect industrial or scientific camps.
'People need tools to live with hungrier bears that are going to be on shore longer,' York said.
Nunavut is issuing kits containing flares, bear bangers and bear spray to help keep hunters safe on the land. But those materials are considered hazardous goods and difficult to ship.
'A lot of the northern communities just don't have access to the less lethal deterrents,' York said.
In the future, not all bear encounters will be as benign as the one Wilder recalls from that long-ago den stakeout.
'I look back on that with a little nervousness," he said. "I just thank my lucky stars that bear was probably in good or average body condition.'"
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Post by Polar on Jan 3, 2018 13:30:59 GMT -5
I have known this for a very long time ever since I went to the Arctic twice with Polar Bear International expeditions when I was younger. They really are not natural man-eaters anymore than a tiger, lion, or brown bear can be. The way they behaved when I was there was just like any other animal; it was like they were well fed (not from humans, of course). They know humans to be a powerful enemy based on generational experience, but when the tough gets going, even their enemy isn't enough to deter them.
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Post by brobear on Jan 4, 2018 6:29:04 GMT -5
I agree. But, before the modern rifle was introduced to lions, tigers, grizzlies, and polar bears, man-eaters were more common. Polar bears were exceptionally dangerous and lacked the natural fear of fire.
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Post by Polar on Jan 4, 2018 18:33:48 GMT -5
Lack of fear is another factor, although human-introduced fear brought a sense of revenge to the animals.
But overall, man-eaters were pretty low when there weren't many humans in the area.
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Post by brobear on Jan 4, 2018 18:53:13 GMT -5
There are far fewer man-eaters today than back during the early 19th century for sure. Consider this: Jaguars have never gained the reputation of being man-eaters - but leopards have in both Asia and Africa. Why? There are large primates in Africa and Asia ( great apes and baboons ). Also in Africa came our early ancestors ( man-like apes or ape-like men - take your pick ). Killing large primates for a meal is instinctive to those big cats that evolved around large primates... lions, tigers, and leopards. Man-eating grizzlies have never been common. Polar bears were, back beyond the mid-1800s, dangerous predators of people. To a polar bear, a man was just another slow-moving animal. Perhaps because where the grizzly lived, there were always some people around - such as Indians. How often did a polar bear see a human back during the pioneer days or earlier?
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Post by brobear on Sept 12, 2018 5:30:07 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/24/russia.wildlife Bears eat two workers in remote Russian region Up to 30 hungry and desperate bears have attacked and eaten two men in Russia's wild far eastern region of Kamchatka, and have trapped a group of geologists at their remote site. The bears - apparently starving - killed the men last Thursday, Russian agencies reported. The bears had surrounded a local platinum mining company. Both victims worked at the mine as security guards. About 400 geologists and miners are now refusing to return to work, afraid of further attacks. Attempts by local officials to fly to the scene by helicopter and shoot the bears have so far failed, because of bad weather, agencies reported. Kamchatka, 7,500 miles and nine time zones east of Moscow on Russia's Pacific coast, is one of the world's last truly great natural wildernesses. The remote volcanic peninsula is home to the rare Steller's sea eagle, as well as puffins and brown bears, who roam its geysers and snow-covered calderas - collapsed volcanoes. Kamchatka's 12,000 strong bear population is the largest in Eurasia. Recently, however, the bears have faced unprecedented ecological pressures. Poaching has led to a dramatic decline in the bear's main food source - the Pacific salmon. Kamchatka is home to a quarter of the world's salmon. But the fish is now disappearing. Poachers have cleaned out entire species by netting rivers. Last year hunters also shot dead at least 300 bears - picking off most of the large ones. At least another 600 were killed illegally, conservationists estimate. "It's always the bear's fault," Laura Williams, the director of WWF's Kamchatka office told the Guardian yesterday. Speaking from Moscow, she said she was seeking further details of the standoff amid reports that a jeep had been sent to the region to finish the bears off. About 10 bears have also been seen near the village of Khalino, sniffing fish remains and other garbage, agencies reported yesterday. Village official Viktor Leushkin told Itar-Tass that a team of hunters would be dispatched to shoot or chase off the bears. "These predators have to be destroyed," he said, adding: "Once they kill a human they will do it again and again." Officials from Russia's emergency situations ministry conceded there was too few fish this year or too many bears. "Either way there is not enough food," an official told yesterday's Moscow Times. Bears have been known in the past to attack humans in the scarcely populated region. Most humans live in the grey and foggy regional capital, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatky, on the peninsula's east coast. Bears are now encroaching on towns, rummaging in bins and scoffing the remains discarded by food factories. Officials believe that 100,000 tonnes of salmon are being illegally fished each year.
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Post by King Kodiak on Sept 12, 2018 6:21:29 GMT -5
Yeah i remember that last news, i am from Moscow. The bears need to eat, lol. The Kamchatka peninsula is at the far east of russia (asian continent). Some of Those kamchatka brown bears are almost as large as kodiaks. There are no tigers there.
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Post by brobear on Sept 12, 2018 16:22:56 GMT -5
Kodiak; do you know of any books ( written in English ) which talk about bear/tiger interactions? Russia is the only land on earth where grizzlies and big cats share an environment.
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Post by King Kodiak on Sept 12, 2018 17:17:12 GMT -5
No sorry, am not much into books, lmao. I think the best reports of the interactions Between the Ussuri brown bear and the amur Tiger are on chapter 19 of The siberian tiger Project.
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Post by tom on Oct 12, 2018 0:43:30 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Oct 12, 2018 1:58:00 GMT -5
Quote: In the past decade, India’s tiger count has soared to 2,500, the world’s largest tiger population. At the same time, India, just after China, has the world’s second largest human population, at 1.3 billion, and the people and tigers are getting squeezed together. People and large predators just don't mix well and the wild animal will always lose in the end. it sours my stomach but its as though we are aliens on our own planet.
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Post by brobear on Oct 21, 2018 7:37:52 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Oct 21, 2018 16:05:49 GMT -5
That had to be some ferocious sloth bear to have killed 12 people and attack 36.
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Post by tom on Nov 6, 2018 15:50:54 GMT -5
abcnews.go.com/International/man-eating-tigers-killing-india-leads-criticism-activists/story?id=58974268A sad ending to the female Tiger killed because she allegedly is the man killer. Interestingly enough the Rangers who shot her tell a story that to some seems very odd. Quote " Sarita Subramaniam, who runs Earth Brigade Foundation, an Indian NGO, has challenged the version of events put out by the forest department. She told ABC News from Mumbai, India, that Khan's account left many questions unanswered. "A charging tiger, while roaring, and this guy is shooting, is not likely to face him sideways," she said. "How did the bullet go from the left side and come out of the right side?"
She accused Khan of fabricating the facts. "He is lying through his teeth," she said.IMO, whether you like Tigers or not I believe this is a NOT a case of a blood thirsty Tiger that killed humans just for the sake of killing them. This sounds like an animal in fear, living in a area that is closing in on her from human encroachment. Defending herself the only way she knew how.
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