Black bear attacks family, kills girl

[montana500]

Pretty brutal story. Something is up with those Tennessee bears lately.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12309606 ( video )

"BENTON, Tenn. - Authorities put out traps baited with honey buns and doughnuts Friday in hopes of capturing a potentially crazed black bear that killed a 6-year-old girl and mauled her mother and 2-year-old brother.

It was only the second documented attack on a human by a black bear in modern Tennessee history, said state Wildlife Resources Agency spokesman Dan Hicks.

“There is a chance that the same bear would attack someone else, so I hope they do catch him,” said Lynn Rogers of the North American Bear Center in Ely, Minn."

[roguevalley]

1. could be the warmer weather is waking them earlier and they

have nothing to eat. same up here. black bears will kill and eat you. you have a passing chance to live through a grizzly attack but a black bear? they will stalk you for miles.

[phantom power]

2. loss of habitat? it's causing problems for predators everywhere.

[Delphinus]

3. Loss of habitat was my first thought too,

phantom power.

Wish I understood this situation more - but it seems like we're killing them via global climate change in the Artic and moving them out of their natural habitats by community expansion.