One in Wis.

Black bear.

https://www.wpr.org/news/state...n-northern-wisconsin

One in AK.

Brown bear
https://www.adn.com/alaska-new...ail-area-police-say/

The Wisconsin black bear attack looks like the sow was protecting it's cub, so its aggression may be explained.

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The Wisconsin black bear attack looks like the sow was protecting it's cub, so it's aggression may be explained

Sounds to me more like a predatory attack the sow came back several times.

Black bears sow are for more likely to run away then to protect there cubs.

The north American bear center agrees with this idea.

https://bear.org/bear-facts/wh...mother-and-her-cubs/

Having had a lot of encounters with sows and cubs. They tend to run away and abandon their cubs instead of fighting for them,

I seen a lot of sows leave their cubs behind.

Not that the rare one won't fight but it is not normal at least around here,

Interesting. I never knew that, we had cows that would let you mess with their calves and others that would try to kill you if you got in the same field with their calves. I though that most animals would vary on their protection of their young.

Same here animals protecting there young ones can vary in temperament widely.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
[QUOTE]The Wisconsin black bear attack looks like the sow was protecting it's cub...

Black bears sow are for more likely to run away then to protect there cubs...

Not that the rare one won't fight but it is not normal at least around here,

I've lived and worked in bear country since the mid '60s. Most, black and grizzly bears, ran away as soon as they saw me, however one sow black bear didn't:

I was driving back to town and the office one Friday afternoon, and saw two of my coworkers parked on the side of the road. I thought that was odd at that time on a Friday afternoon, so I turned around and went back to them. I asked what was going on and they said they heard on our Forest Service radio that one of our Trail maintenance crews had been attacked by a bear, and they were waiting to help in the rescue.

Very shortly, our FS Law Enforcement Officer and a Sheriff's Duputy arrived. The LEO gave me his AR .223 and the 5 of us started up the trail. When we got up to the trail maintenance crew it was an hour after they had called for help. Two of the workers, with their radio, were up one tree, and they said their third worker, who had beeen attacked, was in another tree 100yds up the trail.

Somehow I was in the lead when we got to the base of the tree that the third worker was in, and immediately a black bear charged threw the brush at us. The LEO, Deputy, and I all fired at once, killing the bear.

The injured worker was higher up a very large spruce tree than I thought a person could climb. We helped him get down, and he had been bitted in his lower legs and feet. He said that every time he yelled for help to the other workers, the bear would climb up the tree and bite him.

We got him down to the other workers, and called for a evac helicopter from Yellowstone Park to fly the injured worker out.

While waiting for the helicopter, I went back to the attack site. It was then that I saw small black bear cub of the year running through the brush, and I realized that we had killed his mother. My first thought was that someone would say that the orphaned cub wouldn't make it on it's own and that we should shoot it also. So when the cub went up a tree, I climbed up after it and caught it.

It was a bit of a chore getting him out of the tree, and I ended up with multiple little bites and scratches. His little teeth bites felt like nails in a vice, and he was very good at scratching with his back feet. For about an hour, I tightly held the back of his neck with one hand and his back feet with my other hand. The MT FWP bear biologist finally came up and brought a 5 gallon bucket with a lid that we put the cub in.

FWP came back the next day with dogs and found a second cub. They took both cubs to a wild animal rescue shelter in Helena where they cared for the cubs for two years, then released them in a forest near there.

The injured worker was treated and released from the Bozeman hospital, and Schnees Boots gave him a new pair of boots.

My boss also made me go to a doctor who gave me a tetanus shot prescribed some antibiotics for my bites and scratches.

Hero