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(lat. Ursus arctos) - a predatory mammal of the bear family; one of the largest and most dangerous land predators. Material from Wikipedia
In many printed publications there are notes that the brown bear has long disappeared from many places of its former habitat. Maybe he disappeared somewhere, but not in the Primorsky Territory there are still quite a large number of individuals here. Judging by the stories of experienced taiga dwellers, and even the inhabitants of the villages adjacent to the forest, this wild beast often leaves the taiga and visits their plots as an uninvited guest.
Usually, bears feel most comfortable in the forests, leaving them only in search of food, and their menu is varied, they can drag a chicken, or they can dig the whole garden, which only the bear himself knows in his mind. In our city, several cases of the appearance of this terrible beast in the vicinity are known, two of them ended tragically, which is very sad. Usually the culprit of a bear attack on a person is the person himself, but in these cases the brown bear was the first to attack.
It is difficult to imagine that the thinking of a clubfoot in some cases is close to the human in terms of the level of development. Probably it all depends on the places where the bear lives. Such a conclusion suggests itself from the case of what happened in the vicinity of the city of Arsenyev.
I want to tell about one such case, since I myself knew well the person who was attacked by the bear.
It was not so long ago, I then worked as a foreman at the parking lot and the meeting with the bear happened at one of the watchmen, I won’t give his last name because he is no longer alive. (After that ill-fated meeting with the beast) It all started with the fact that rumors spread around the city: a bear appeared in the vicinity. He was seen in the Oil Depot area (15 km from the city) on dirt road leading to the city. Then the woman who met him was very lucky, the bear tried to attack her, but what do our women do in critical situations? Correctly, they begin to scream and call for help, which our lucky woman did, and in addition she began to fight off the molesting bear with a handbag.
From the outside, the situation seems ridiculous, but not for that woman. I can't imagine how she felt at that moment. Hearing cries for help, people from the surrounding houses began to run and by joint efforts managed to drive away the clubfoot villain. That woman got off light scratches and bruises as they say: she was born in a shirt. The bear was driven into the forest, the people dispersed and life in the village went on as usual. And what's next?
And then our clumsy robber did not calm down, he again went out onto the main road and moved towards the city. The main instinct is the animal instinct of wild animals: never seek contact with people. They don’t need them at all, which can’t be said about our bear ...
On that ill-fated day, the car park watchman, let's call him Vasya, having collected everything he needed, went fishing on the Arsenyevka River, which flows almost within the city. Having laid out his not cunning fishing arsenal on the shore and settled down more comfortably, he began to fish. In the meantime, our bear, either by coincidence or by the evil fate of fate, also began to approach this place on the river. Their meeting was inevitable.
As it ended, you already know, the bear ate all the insides of the unfortunate fisherman and threw the lifeless body on the shore. I don’t know what I would have done in this situation, probably tried to escape. Other fishermen heard screams on the shore and began to gather at that ill-fated place, seeing a horrific picture, they called a police squad.
And our robber from the main road (now a cannibal), having refreshed himself a little, went to visit the nearest houses in the suburbs. There our "valiant" policemen and a cannibal bear met. Where the last one was shot with an automatic weapon. It was probably possible not to shoot the bear, but it had already become very dangerous. As I later found out it was an old and sick bear, he was no longer able to get his own food in the forest, this reason pushed forest dweller go to people.
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How to behave when meeting a bear.
The bear (Brown bear) inhabits the entire Urals, Northern Ural, Subpolar Urals and Polar Urals.
The brown bear is the most large predator living in the Ural taiga. Its weight can exceed 600 kg. Powerful forelimbs, equipped with long claws, have great destructive power - with a blow of the front paw, the bear is able to break the backbone, tear out the ribs or break the skull bones of the moose. With its teeth, a bear can bite through the trunks of a smoothbore gun.
With apparent massiveness, the bear is a very "agile" animal. In a jerk, it reaches a speed of 60 km / h, and from a standstill.
On the lower part of the paws, the bear has peculiar calloused formations. These calluses leave footprints on the ground that are characteristic only of a bear. The complete imprint of the hind foot somewhat resembles that of a human foot. The color of the fur varies widely from black to straw-red.
There are a lot of bears in the subpolar Urals. Especially along the river banks. This is his country. his hunting grounds. And there is only one owner here - BEAR. We are visiting him, do not forget about it. If you are traveling alone through the domain of a bear, and even more so along the river bank, where there is a lot of willow, let us know about you. Especially where the landscape or vegetation makes it difficult to see. Make noise, sing, talk loudly, or tie a bell to your backpack. If possible, travel with a group. Groups make more noise and are easier for bears to recognize. Avoid dense bushes. If you can't, then try to walk so that the wind blows from your back, and the bear can smell you. Contrary to popular belief, bears see almost as well as humans, but trust their noses more than their eyes or ears. Always let the bear know you are here.
Like people, bears use paths and roads. Don't pitch your tent near a path they can walk on. Go around those places where you smell dead fish, an animal, or see animals that feed on carrion. There may also be bear food, and if it is nearby, it can aggressively defend the hiding place (nick). As a rule, in such places, a bear has a rookery - lying down.
Don't push the bears!
Give the bear as much free space as possible. Some bears are more tolerant than others, but each bear has its own "personal space" - the distance within which the bear feels threatened. If you are in this zone, the bear may react aggressively. When photographing bears, use telephoto lenses; approaching for close-up shots, you may be in this danger zone.
Bears are always looking for something to eat!
Bears only have 7 months to accumulate fat before their long hibernation. Don't let them know that human food or garbage is easy prey. It is foolish and dangerous to feed bears, or to leave food or garbage to attract them.
Cook food away from your tent. Keep all groceries and food away from the camp. Hang food so that the bear cannot reach it. If there are no trees, store food in airtight or special containers. Remember that dogs and their food can also attract bears.
Keep the camp clean. Wash dishes. Don't use strong smelling foods like bacon or smoked fish. Don't let your clothes smell like food. Burn garbage at the stake, burn cans. Bears are equally attracted to food and trash, so handle them properly. Waste disposal is a waste of time. Bears have a keen sense of smell and are good at digging.
If a bear approaches you while fishing, stop fishing. If there is a fish on the line, do not let it splash. If this is not possible, cut the line. If the bear realizes that he can get the fish only by approaching the fisherman, he will return again. A bear can also mistake you for another bear - a stranger that hunts (fishes) in its territory and reacts very aggressively.
Close encounters with a bear. What to do?
If you see a bear, try to get away from it. Give the bear every opportunity to avoid meeting you. If you encounter a bear, stay calm. Attacks are rare. There is a chance you are not in danger. Most bears (she-bears) are interested in protecting their food, cubs or their personal space. When the threat has passed, they will pass by.
Let me know!
Let the bear know that you are a human. Talk to the bear in a normal voice. Wave your hands. Help the bear recognize you. If the bear cannot recognize who you are, it may come closer or stand on its hind legs to get a better look or sniff. A standing bear is usually curious and not dangerous. You can try to slowly back away diagonally, but if the bear starts to follow you, stop and stay where you are.
Don't run!
Do NOT RUN under any circumstances. You won't be able to run away from the bear. They have been found to run at about 60 km/h and, like dogs, they will chase a fleeing animal or person. This animal takes an animal running from it as a victim, and easily kills in 90% of cases out of 100. Often bears intimidate, terrify, sometimes 3 meters from their enemy, without trying to attack. Keep waving your arms and talking to the bear. If the bear gets too close, raise your voice and become more aggressive. Knock on pots and pans. Use loud instruments. Never imitate a bear's growl or squawk.
If the bear attacks.
If the bear starts to attack, give up! Fall to the ground and pretend to be dead. Lie on your stomach or curl up in a ball with your hands behind your head. It is typical for a bear to stop attacking if it feels that the threat has been eliminated. Stay still for as long as possible. If you move and the bear sees or hears you, it may return and renew its attack. In rare cases, an attacking bear may mistake a person for food.
Protection.
Use weapons with caution as an alternative to a sensible approach to dealing with close encounters with a bear. If you are not experienced with firearms in an emergency, you are more likely to get hurt by a gun than a bear.
You can shoot a bear ONLY in self-defense during an attack, if you did not provoke the attack, and if there is no other way out. In all other cases, a warning shot must be fired into the air to frighten the bear. If you are not a hunter, but a fisherman and you do not have a gun, take a traumatic (gas) pistol with light-noise cartridges with you. It should always be at hand (on the belt in a belt holster, in the bosom, in a body holster). If there is no such thing, ordinary firecrackers or a rocket launcher are quite suitable. On no account leave the camp without a means of guaranteeing, if necessary, a shot or noise clap.
In ordinary life, collisions with people with bears are milder. Usually, whoever is smarter is the first to give way. Bears almost always do this. If the bear does try to get close, 90 percent of the time, a sharp whistle or an unexpected pop in the palm of the hand is enough to make the beast run away. If he continues to approach, the next remedy is to throw a pebble at him. As a rule, it works. Some hunters claim that it helps from a good bear mat.
Bears are afraid of the unexpected. For example, unexpectedly opening umbrellas, especially if two big eyes. An unexpectedly open floor of a raincoat or a backpack suddenly thrown up. Any unexpected behavior.
The greatest troubles have to be endured by young, actively exploring the world bears, as well as from mature males-dominants who do not have enemies in wild nature and forgetting how to give way.
One last tip: when in bearish places, don't forget to look back sometimes!
There is nothing worse than being confronted by a beast suddenly - it may take it as an act of aggression.
A protective aerosol spray containing capsicum (red pepper extract) is available in some hunting shops and has been used successfully to repel bears. These sprays are effective at a distance of about 5-6 meters. If sprayed upwards or in a car, they may injure the user. Take precautions. If you carry a spray, keep it handy and know how to use it.
Bears can be ardent protectors of their cubs. Standing between a she-bear and her cubs is a big mistake. A mother bear can react violently to anything she considers a threat to her cub.
The bear's rutting period begins in June and ends in late July - early August. During this period, the animals are excited, often there are groups of adult animals. Demonstrative competitions and fights arise between males, as a result, the female remains with one male, while the others stay nearby. Males show high activity and aggressiveness, and the entire period of estrus is near the female.
Bear cubs appear in January-February. In the Urals, it is not uncommon to meet a female with three cubs.
The daily activity of a bear is determined by the season of the year, the availability of food and the general life cycle of the animal. In spring and the first half of summer, bears can feed around the clock, especially in cloudy weather. The high daily activity of the bear persists until the start of the run of salmon and grayling. During the day, the bears lie down without going far from the feeding place, usually in thickets of shrubs, in closed glades, in small forest clumps, on hot days they can be located in the floodplain high grass or willow of the river.
During the mass run of salmonids, daytime activity decreases and shifts to the evening, morning and night hours. With a lack of food (especially with a weak course of fish), the activity of bears increases, and they feed on berry fields, in cedar dwarf forests or in mountain meadows at almost any time of the day. For rest, the bear usually settles under the canopy coniferous trees, and beds can be used repeatedly. In the twilight and in the forest thicket, the bear feels much more confident than a person.
The bear is omnivorous. In the Urals in the spring, after leaving their dens, the animals come out onto the warm slopes of the mountains, warmed up and quickly freed from the snow cover, where they dig for rhizomes and bulbs. Later in May, they begin to go out to the rivers or to the berry fields, pick up carrion, eat the remains of berries. Animals often visit the coasts of rivers and lakes in search of animal and plant waste.
With the start of the fish to spawn, most of the bears are located near the spawning rivers. On the mountainous Ural rivers, fish is the main source of animal protein food. Having eaten on fish, the bears go to the berries or grass, in order to return to the river after some time. Thus, the menu diversifies, the diet becomes richer. In the autumn before the occurrence (October-November), the bears leave the rivers and gradually move, eating berries and nuts of the dwarf pines, go to the wintering grounds. In their environment, bears are cannibals. More big bear can catch and devour a bear cub (which most often happens during the mating season, when the cubs are not far from the bear). Cases of attacks and eating by bears of smaller (more often young) individuals have been registered.
Bear winter shelters are usually located in the ground or caves. Two or three animals can sleep in one lair. With an abundance of food, individuals of good fatness may not go to dens at all, arranging surface nests.
Bears live on average 25-30 years.
A person is not an object of food for a bear. Most bears under normal conditions try to avoid meeting a person, and, having found him first, they try to leave unnoticed. If the meeting took place, then the vast majority of bears take flight.
However, you should always remember and clearly know that the behavior of a particular bear that you meet in a particular situation is UNPREDICTABLE!
The main reasons for the attack brown bears on people.
In our desire to communicate with nature, we are getting further and further into the forests. We are beckoned by taiga distances, modern technology allows us to get in. The roar of helicopter engines and all-terrain vehicles scares away the forest inhabitants of the pristine taiga. But at the same time, we are accustoming the same bears to our presence for longer and longer, without knowing it.
The predator gets used to a person (becomes, without knowing it, the so-called "synanthropic" bear) in places where he constantly has to deal with. He gradually loses his fear of humans and, as a logical conclusion to the process, the aggressiveness of the bear increases, which by its nature does not like meeting humans. At the same time, some part of the population, perhaps insignificant, shows a tendency to hangover, adapts to life close to a person and at his expense. Harmless at first, these beasts become more and more aggressive. They are LOSE FEAR in front of a man!
Many researchers agree that aggressiveness towards a person is an extreme expression of "synanthropism". An important, if not the main reason for the entry of animals into camps, camps and settlements and conflict situations, is the careless maintenance of garbage dumps, various kinds of food waste dumps, leaving food waste, garbage in the forests, as well as careless storage of products. Animals in these cases are attracted by the smell and availability of food. Bears are attracted by fish, from which fishermen cook fish soup and fish waste, which tourists leave behind.
Thus, bears pose an increased danger to humans. :
For some reason, those who have lost the opportunity to get their usual food (sick, injured, old) or who have learned to pick up scraps, eat food waste left by a person;
Individuals adapted to contacts with people (including bears - "beggars"), often meeting with humans, living in the area of permanent camps;
Animals with "torn behavior" - in one way or another "tried" to hunt a person - once killed him with impunity;
The degree of danger largely depends on the circumstances of the contacts.
The danger is extremely great if:
The beast is wounded (the bear is very strong on the wound, even a mortally wounded bear is able to attack and kill the hunter);
When meeting with a she-bear accompanying the cubs (especially if the person is between the cubs and the she-bear);
A bear protecting its prey;
If a person accidentally finds himself in the path of a bear running away from some kind of danger.
It is very dangerous when a person steps over the threshold of "rapprochement", i.e. is too close to the animal. The science of animal behavior - ethology, claims that predators have one feature - the so-called critical approach distance. All living creatures that find themselves closer to the predator than this critical distance are perceived by him as aggressors, that is, attackers. In this case, it is difficult to predict how a particular bear will behave.
Among the BEARS there are also " underpants"and unperturbed" Olympians", and aggressive " brawlers".
"Coward" runs away from the attacker;
The Olympian just stands there and watches what happens next;
Aggressive "Brawler" himself instantly attacks the "attacker".
Therefore, you can find yourself in the clutches of a bear not attacking, but defending! Absolute majority known cases attacks of bears on people can be explained by this feature of the behavior of predators, when he perceived a person as attacking him.
It is extremely dangerous to approach a bear caught in a snare (noose or trap), which poachers often set near food bait (fish, animal carcasses, or on a trail). A bear, caught in a loop fixed tightly (usually to a thick tree), tries to escape to the last, with a roar destroys everything around him in a radius depending on the length of the cable. If the samolov is attached to a sled (a log, chains with an anchor, and the like), then the bear, moving, pulls the stag behind it, leaving a furrow on the grass and soft ground. If you get close to such a beast, he will definitely attack. Woe to the one who meets with the enraged bear escaping from the dead grip of the noose.
The degree of danger to humans is different and in different seasons of the year: upon leaving the den, during the rut, as well as in winter period when "rods" appear - bears that have not accumulated a sufficient amount of fat, or are injured, and therefore do not lie down in the den.
The degree of danger also increases at night: it is more difficult to notice the beast, and at night the bears are more active and bold, there are cases when they went straight to the fires.
Cowardly, inexperienced, untrained dogs can also provoke a bear. Some bears not only actively defend themselves against dogs, but also chase them themselves. Cowardly dogs at the same time seek protection from a person, throw themselves at his feet, which can cause an accident. An attacking bear can be stopped only by dogs that are taunted by a bear and not afraid of it. Therefore, do not take your untrained pets with you to the forest, on an expedition to the taiga, they will not protect you from a bear, but they can provoke an attack. Only a dog can protect a person from a bear, capable of detaining him at the cost of his life.
Ways to reduce the chance of encounter and attack.
In order to avoid dangerous situations when meeting with a bear, the following rules can help you:
1. When moving along the route, hunting in the forest, picking mushrooms or berries, relaxing in picturesque taiga places, always remember that a meeting with a bear can happen at any time, in any place, and You must be mentally prepared for this.. Plan your possible actions in advance. Listen to the birds around you. Nutcrackers are especially talkative. By the behavior of birds, you can predict in advance the place and time of the appearance of the beast.
2 . To avoid the critical approach distance and not unexpectedly collide with a bear, it is necessary to move in the forest noisily talking freely and loudly, and preferably in a group of at least 3 people. Avoid close encounters with bears. Look out for signs of a bear that it is nearby and make as much noise as possible. Let's know about ourselves.
3 . To avoid the appearance of "synanthropic" (accustomed beggars) bears, it is important to ensure that not to create conditions for their complementary feeding. Food scraps and carcasses of slaughtered wild animals must be disposed of so that predators do not take advantage of them.
4 . Do not leave in the forest in places of your rest and intermediate stops food leftovers, garbage. You can not arrange near the bases, camps, trails, on halts and routes such objects as garbage dumps, dumps, warehouses of food waste. Do not attract the bear through improper storage of food and garbage.
5 . When moving through the taiga and river banks, the maximum try to avoid areas of high grass, willow trees, thickets of elfin cedar, closed cozy glades, thickets of "burdocks" in the floodplains of rivers and streams, places of possible rest for a bear on day trips. Move to open areas where you can see the bear far enough away.
6 . Seeing a bear in the distance don't get close to him, carefully leave this place, bypass it. Keep calm.
7 . Post camp in the open, With sufficient overview places. Carefully monitor the cleanliness of their territories, all food waste burn. Do not store food in accessible places, isolate them so that smells cannot attract animals.
8 . In no case do not stay overnight, do not put up tents and do not set up camp on bear and other forest trails.
9 . Avoid walking along river banks and streams during the spawning season of salmon in the evening and morning twilight and at night. Generally avoid walking in the taiga dull twilight and night. Remember, night is Bear time! If fate forced you to walk at night, you need to at least move around with an electric flashlight on.
10 . Under no circumstances don't come near in places where bears may be found the remains of dead animals, masses of abandoned fish, other possible baits. A bear disturbed on prey in most cases goes on the attack.
11 . Don't push the bear Please respect his "private space". In case of an unexpected meeting "short", even if you are unarmed, categorically it is impossible to run away from the beast(this is useless and can only additionally provoke the bear to pursue). It is necessary, trying to keep calm as much as possible, to remain in place (no matter how scary it is), calling for help with a loud cry, or, slowly backing away, retreat. In this case, you can try to scare away the bear with the ringing of metal objects, a loud cry, voice, shots in the air, rockets, hand flares.
13 . Never, do not, under any circumstances, approach bear cubs no matter how sweet and cute they seem to you. Do not try to feed or lure them. If you meet them by chance, or they come out to your resting place, stop immediately, look around quickly and look for an escape route as quickly as possible. Bear cubs are curious and if they are heading towards you, drive them away with loud cries. Remember - somewhere near the she-bear, and GOD FORBID You will find yourself between a she-bear and a bear cub. The attack of the Bear, if she considers that you are a threat to her baby, will be the last thing you will see in your life.
14 . Protect you, your camp only strong, brave and vicious dogs can. Even among the huskies, not everyone is able to attack a bear. Under no circumstances should dogs be used to guard against a bear without the skills, dexterity and strength to at least briefly detain a bear on the spot.
15 . Scaring away the bear with shots, don't try to shoot the bear itself. A wounded bear is extremely dangerous! Even if he leaves you, he can become a serious danger to other people. You can only kill a bear with a weapon large caliber and then not always even a shot "on the spot" can immediately stop the bear. Reliable shot exactly in the brain or spine.
16 . In extreme cases, you can escape from a bear on a tree if you manage to get on it. An adult large bear, due to its weight, will no longer be able to climb on it. Such cases of rescue, or rather sitting out, on trees are known. If there are several trees, try to choose the largest one.
17 . Being in the taiga always be very careful, do not go into thickets of elfin, tall grass. Do not climb in floodplain thickets of bushes. Settling down to rest, carefully look around for signs of the presence of a bear. On clay outcrops, swamps, banks of streams, you can see traces of a bear, and in floodplain places, feeding places (kopanki), where he dug marsh plants. If you suspect that a bear has been here, leave the area immediately and look elsewhere.
18 . Even if the bear nevertheless went to you, there is still hope that he will turn aside. Never DO NOT turn your back on an attacking bear! The man who escaped is almost certainly doomed. When attacked by a bear, you cannot manifest external signs fear. If there is no reliable shelter or shelter nearby, it is necessary to face the danger by standing face to face. There are more people who survived the attack of the bear in this way than those who were able to flee. Don't run.
19 . Seeing a bear that accidentally entered the path (road), never, never feed them no matter how harmless and cute they seem. The bear does not need your feeding, but starting to feed the bear you bring up a beggar in him, who will very quickly begin to demand food, and if he doesn’t get it, he becomes aggressive and is able to attack a person, the fear of which he loses. Remember that by your actions you endanger the lives of others.
20 . Upon detection of a bear showing aggression, a wounded bear, a bear caught in a samolov (loop), a bear attacking dogs and people, other people should be warned immediately located in the same place or in close proximity to it.
21 . And last - ANYTIME AND ANYWHERE: Having met a bear, regardless of its size, behavior and appearance treat him like a formidable and powerful predator, with unpredictable behavior.
Studies conducted in our country and abroad have shown that there is no single universal means of protection against bears, and the above recommendations cannot be considered as an absolute guarantee against an accident, but to reduce the likelihood conflict situation they will help.
In many cases, bears do not pose a threat, but they deserve your respect and attention. When traveling through the taiga, be vigilant and take the opportunity to see these amazing animals in natural environment their habitats.
Unfortunately, even full compliance with the recommendations cannot completely exclude the possibility of a bear attack, because it is impossible to foresee the circumstances of each specific case of a meeting with a bear. Bear behavior is unpredictable. But we will be sincerely glad if, after reading the recommendations, you become more careful in taiga expeditions.
The main reference material is taken from open sources information.
Prepared by Evgeniy Svitov. 
The film "The Revenant", which harvested the harvest of awards at all film awards in 2016 and brought Leonardo DiCaprio the long-awaited "Oscar", made many viewers wince while watching it. This is largely due to perhaps the film's most hardcore scene, in which a bear attacked mountain guide Hugh Glass, played by the incomparable Leo.
Our readers have already appreciated the realistic makeup of Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, but 64-year-old Allena Hansen (Allena Hansen) believes that Leo's character still got off lightly. The fact is that Allena herself was attacked by a bear, so she knows firsthand what a person looks like after bear claws. Attention, not for the faint of heart! The article contains a photo of a woman after a bear attack! We warned you..
In 2008, Allena Hansen was attacked by a bear at her ranch in California. This is what she looked like before the attack.
So Allena began to look after a bear attack, as a result of which she lost her nose, ears and 14 teeth. The woman managed to fight off the bear with the help of two huge dogs
So 64-year-old Allena began to look after several plastic surgeries. In total, since then she has undergone dozens of plastic surgeries and it took her years of rehabilitation.
By publishing these photos, Allen did not want to draw attention to herself or gain pity from the Internet. She just wanted to show how implausible and "ridiculous" what was shown in The Revenant is.
"In this photo, you can see me after I was taken to the hospital, so Leo actually got off lightly. And since we are here, I would like to note that such A big bear will not fall dead from three stabs in the shoulder," she jokingly captioned her photos
She was also quite amused by the scene in the film in which Leo fell off a cliff on his horse while trying to get away from the chase:
"After jumping off a cliff while sitting on the back of a horse, I can assure you that: 1. Leo couldn't ride cross country like that and 2. Appaloosa (the breed of horse he rode) is too smart to jump from rocks"
Now Allena continues to live on her ranch in California with her four horses and two dogs.
Alena Hansen, a US resident, was the victim of a huge black bear attack a year ago, which attacked her while she was working on her ranch in the mountains of the Southern Sierra. With a powerful blow of his paw, the bear literally removed the scalp from the woman. She was lucky that after the blow, the bear was distracted by barking dogs nearby. What is most surprising, she managed to get to her car and drive! to the fire station, where she was given first aid and called the doctors. I just want to warn you The following photos are not for the faint of heart..
Photo from a few months before the attack.
The victim is transported by medical helicopter to the University of California, Los Angeles.
Photo two days after a seven-hour operation by a team of nearly 100 people led by Kimberley Lee, MD, PhD.
And here is the woman today.
During the year of rehabilitation, Alena Hansen managed to write the book "How to Survive After a Bear Attack" and is now giving it to everyone.
In it, she, in particular, talks about the features of her "health insurance". In particular, she thought that for 20 years of insurance payments she has the right to believe that insurance will cover all the necessary expenses. But no: the ophthalmologist, cosmetologist, dental insurance does not cover, and this is the lion's share of the costs that have fallen on her. In general, her insurance turned out to be a piece of paper that no one needed.
What will you feel if you the bear will attack? Here are the horrifying testimonies of the victims.
Cases of bear attacks on humans are relatively rare. Usually the owner of the forests is afraid of a person and runs away when he approaches. However, sometimes the beast can go on the attack, and then everything can end tragically. How does a bear attack happen?
First you will see a terrible monster that rushes at you
The bear rushes at you with great speed jumps, his hair stands on end, his teeth are bared, most often he is silent, but he can also make a loud growl.
You may have superpowers
There are numerous cases when, fleeing from bears, a person in seconds climbed a tree along an absolutely smooth trunk or jumped over a three-meter fence. And one woman from Virginia kicked an attacking bear so hard that it fell over backwards.
The bear will aim to grab your face.
Alexander Krasilov from Altai Territory was attacked by a bear while trying to save his friend from her. The beast almost completely ate the man's face.
“She threw me on my back and started eating my face. She ate the jaw with all the teeth, nose, cheeks ... "
The predator had already begun to bury the victim with earth "in reserve", but the approaching people frightened her away, and the mistress of the forest hurried to retreat. Alexander managed to be saved, but he lost his sight and lost his speech, and his wife left him.
American Alena Hansen also suffered from the attack. A black bear pounced on her in the mountains of the Southern Sierra and practically scalped part of her face. She managed to survive.
The accident also changed the life of a 29-year-old French woman traveling around the Kamchatka Territory. The woman managed to survive. Her face was completely disfigured.
He will shake you
With one blow of his huge clawed paw, he plunges his victim to the ground. Then he grabs his victim by the neck and shakes him like a rag doll. Many predators do this, for example, dogs often shake their toys. The action is instinctive and aimed at breaking the neck of the victim.
Once an American hunter from Montana stumbled upon a bear with cubs. The man began to scream loudly, trying to scare the animals, but this tactic did not work. The bear attacked him and bit him several times.
“Her bites were like hitting a sledgehammer with teeth. She stopped for a few seconds and then bit again. Again and again"
After that, the animal disappeared into the forest, and the hunter went to his truck. Suddenly, the angry she-bear reappeared and again attacked her prey. This time, she broke the hunter's hand, biting it to the point of blood, and struck a blow on the head, after which she ran away. The wounded man made it to the nearest ranch and received the necessary assistance.
There will be a lot of blood
This is not surprising, because with its huge claws and teeth, the beast literally tears a person apart.
Experience pain shock
Climber Greg Boswell was attacked by a bear in the Rocky Mountains. The beast pounced on him and began to gnaw on the leg of his victim, who began to desperately resist. Boswell managed to escape from the clutches of the predator, but he experienced a severe pain shock and, most likely, would have died on the spot if not for another climber Nick Bullock, who dragged the wounded man to the hospital.
You will think that you will soon die
A woman whose legs were broken by a bear recalls:
“I didn’t expect that I would leave alive. And he continued to tear my legs. My thought was this: to get it over with as soon as possible. Lying just praying
