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<blockquote data-quote="Long Time Long Ranger" data-source="post: 662295" data-attributes="member: 505"><p>Your right the bear that ate Treadwell and his girlfriend was the bear he always said he disliked the most, was unpredictable, and could never make friends with. It was their last night there and grizzlies are extremely attracted to sex odors. I think that could have been a contributing factor to the bear coming into the tent and eating them but I have no inside info on it although I have talked to the rangers who investigated it.</p><p> </p><p>I have been in close around grizzlies many times over the years and several times in that area of southwest Alaska. Virtually every year I have encounters within 15-50 yards either while hunting or in Yellowstone and in the past filming bears near where Treadwell got ate. They can be docile one minute and slap you dead the next. No big deal to them just a little slap is all it takes killing you when all they meant was to give you a stern warning. All in the body language and understanding it.</p><p> </p><p>There was a man and his wife got ate near an area where I caribou hunt in Alaska on occasion. They had done everything right with their camp and food and were experienced in the Alaska bush. Again in that one sex may have been a contributing factor. I know one year while I was at Yellowstone backpacking a big boar grizzly drug a girl camping alone out of her tent and ate part of her. She was having her menstrual cycle which also attracts grizzlies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Long Time Long Ranger, post: 662295, member: 505"] Your right the bear that ate Treadwell and his girlfriend was the bear he always said he disliked the most, was unpredictable, and could never make friends with. It was their last night there and grizzlies are extremely attracted to sex odors. I think that could have been a contributing factor to the bear coming into the tent and eating them but I have no inside info on it although I have talked to the rangers who investigated it. I have been in close around grizzlies many times over the years and several times in that area of southwest Alaska. Virtually every year I have encounters within 15-50 yards either while hunting or in Yellowstone and in the past filming bears near where Treadwell got ate. They can be docile one minute and slap you dead the next. No big deal to them just a little slap is all it takes killing you when all they meant was to give you a stern warning. All in the body language and understanding it. There was a man and his wife got ate near an area where I caribou hunt in Alaska on occasion. They had done everything right with their camp and food and were experienced in the Alaska bush. Again in that one sex may have been a contributing factor. I know one year while I was at Yellowstone backpacking a big boar grizzly drug a girl camping alone out of her tent and ate part of her. She was having her menstrual cycle which also attracts grizzlies. [/QUOTE]
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