Researchers located the wounded bear, Big Harry, in the woods the next day — still valiantly guarding his mate,
June.
The Minnesota DNR Enforcement and the St Louis
County Sheriff's Dept are investigating this senseless act of violence.
A $2500 reward offered for information leading to arrest and conviction. Click here to read more and see video.
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Why Do We Fear Bears?
Excessive Warnings About Attacks
Attacks are rare and excessive warnings about them create unnecessary fear.
Balanced and factual information about bears is hard
to find. Providing that information is the main goal of the North
American Bear Center where the bears themselves provide much of the
information through video footage and research data.
Black bears use sounds, body language, and scent-marking to express their emotions of the moment.
The main thing that helped me get over my fear of bears was learning their language—learning to interpret bear bluster in terms of their fear rather than my fear—learning that behaviors I thought were threatening were really expressions of their own apprehension.
- Lynn L. Rogers, Ph.D., 2007
Amiable sounds are grunts and
tongue clicks used by mothers concerned for their cubs and by bears
approaching other bears to mate or play. Cubs make a motor-like
pulsing hum when they nurse or are especially comfortable.
