Deadly Grizzly Bear Captured in Montana

Oh J.R., for goodness sake, the bear and people were in a campground. While this is a really good illustration of why people need to keep their food and scented items locked up you can’t really be advocating the elimination of camping areas? Or allowing human killing animals to walk free?

I’m with J.R. its sad to take retribution on an animal doing what nature intended. We can only trespass on their range with with the understanding they have a right to protect their family as we do ours.

I agree with JR. This is a wildlife area and the bear’s home. We intrude on her grounds, she does what comes natural to a wild animal…protect her young and now we are going to kill her and her cubs. I don’t get it. The people who were camping there should have known better.

Consensus is it is the bears home, and humans were trespassing. That is the risk of camping in bear country. Don’t allow tents in the area works much better that killing and animal that is protecting its home, babies and looking for food.

To even suggest the mother bear was a human-seeking predator is absolutley absurd. She has probably lived in that territory all her life, and when she picked up the scents, wanted to make sure her babies were safe. That’s more than most humans do. Humans prefer to put their babies in dumpsters, and worse.

I am sickened over your decision to euthanize a mother bear and her cubs in the recent unforturante accident to the camper. We humans are trespassing in their territory and should be respectful of their natural instincts to protect their young and hunt for food. Why can’t they simply relocate the family. We don’t euthanize human predators.

When will people learn that wild animals are WILD. You enter their domain at your own risk. Stay in a hotel!! How much is this going to cost the park service, and how do they know for sure they have the right bear??

If only the humans who are in charge could,or would,deal with human attackers and killersas aggressively as they do for wildlife who cannot speak or defend themselves.The human is also a mammal but we treat rapist and child molestors better than we do the innocent mammals living in their own habitat and were doing fine until MAN came along.

What an insane world we live in when so many loony arm-chair “naturalists” kick back and blithely say, “Sure, let the bears eat people whose only crime was wanting to enjoy nature.”
So, how about Elora Petrasek–the 6-year-old little girl who was killed by a bear in Tennessee a few years ago? Nothing wrong with that in your eyes?
Or 93-year-old Adelia Maestras Trujillo, who was savagely mauled to death in her own home when a bear broke in?
Or 5-month-old, Ester Schwimmer, who was snatched from a stroller on the front porch of her Fallsburg, New York residence and killed in front of her horrified parents?
I suppose they were “Just in the wrong place at the wrong time?” I’m sure a few you will say, “Oh, well, that’s different.” No it isn’t. It doesn’t matter where someone is murdered. What matters is that steps are taken to make damn certain the murderer doesn’t strike again.
You can’t simply trap a killer bear and move it. Bears are territorial. “Problem” bears have been trapped multiple times near the same spot they have been trapped before after being transported far out into the wilderness; they simply return “home.” Trapping and relocating is not a solution for killer bears. Put them in a zoo? Quite a threat to the workers who have to take care of them and clean up their areas and maintain the bear’s health, wouldn’t you say? Would you want your daughter taking care of a bear who had killed someone else’s son or daughter?
So, it’s alright, in your eyes for a mother bear to kill a human whom she, (mistakenly), believes a threat to her family, yet it isn’t alright for humans to do the same? You people are certifiable.
You justify your warped delusions with irrevelant, soulless, statistics such as, “there are x number of humans, and y number of bears,” as if that somehow makes things hunky-dory.
Well, if those statistics bother you so much, I suggest that you do something about it and stop breeding. Those of us who remain sane and harbor a love for our own species and children, instead of a demented, bitter hatred, would prefer it if you didn’t.

I agree with EMT, but also side with the bears. I have worked with killer animals, a tiger and was present when a bear killed a fellow trainer. Something I have seen with the animals in zoo’s and facilities that have killed someone is that it is almost entierly human error. But there is a SAFE way to deal with problem animals in a controlled environement, aka a zoo or sanctuary.
While animals that hunt humans on purpose should be put down, there are reasons they hunt people, and we should understand those reasons. The animals are old/delerious/protective, etc. But the cubs in this case should try to be relocated to a facility. Even though they do learn from their mother, they are probably still young enough to learn many other behaviors.
I do not want the hunting laws re-established. Bears were not hunted, or at least not as dramatically before the gun and pelt hunting came to the area, and once they reach the limit that the environment can sustain them, they will stay at that number, never truly increasing. A problem may be that the campers do leave food out and that attracts and feeds the bears, incresing thier numbers and familiartity with people.
Those people who do go camping in bear territory know the risks, or at least should, and do so to be out in nature and enjoy it. Knowing the risks, they should always be on thier guard and protect thier gear and themselves by not inviting wildlife to come to them.
In conclusion, we just need to find a balance. Animals should not be put down just because they are problematic, but only if they truly are killers, and I wish more people who were just as bad or worse than these animals would be put down. But balance is needed, and it usually finds itself in nature. It is we who have upset the balance far too often and we need to be aware of that and make sure we do not leave another negative impression on the wildlife we live alongside.

That is just freaking stupid, we’re invading their teritory and they’re getting punished for it. Besides we let bad humans live who kill other people.