7-10-17

A 19-year-old woke up to the sound of biting before realizing he was being attacked by a black bear when camping along a lakefront in Colorado on Sunday.

From Time

This Teenage Camper In Colorado Woke Up To A Biting Sound, Then A Bear Started Dragging Him | TIME

Teenager woken by black bear ‘crunching’ on his head at Colorado campsite

Ateenager working at a Colorado camp woke up to the sound of “crunching” – only to find out it was a black bear biting his head.

The 19-year-old woke up at around 4 am to discover his head was inside the mouth of the bear, which was trying to pull him out of his sleeping bag as he slept outside at Glacier View Ranch 48 miles northwest of Denver, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said.

The teen punched and hit it and other staffers who were sleeping nearby yelled and swatted at the bear, which eventually left, she said.

The staffer, identified only as Dylan, was treated briefly at a hospital and released.

The teen told KMGH-TV that the bear dragged him ten to 12 feet before he was able to free himself.

“The crunching noise, I guess, was the teeth scraping against the skull as it dug in,” said the teen, who teaches wilderness survival at the camp owned by the Rocky Mountain Conference of Seventh Day Adventists.

Dylan and the other staffers were near teepees where 12- and 13-year-old campers were sleeping. None of them were hurt.

Black bears aren’t usually aggressive but have attacked several people in the West in recent weeks.

A woman and her dogs were attacked on Tuesday after they apparently surprised an adult bear and her cub in a huckleberry patch in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests.

Last month, black bears killed two people in Alaska in separate attacks.

Sixteen-year-old Patrick “Jack” Cooper of Anchorage was killed after he got lost and veered off a trail during a mountain race south of Anchorage. Mine contract worker Erin Johnson of Anchorage died and her co-worker was injured in a mauling about 275 miles northeast of Anchorage.

Last week, a professional runner from Kenya described how he escaped two black bears in Maine by outpacing them. 

Black bears will defend their young and have been known to paw and bite tents with food inside. After the Colorado attack wildlife officers did not find any food that would have attracted the bear so they have set bear traps in the area and plan to continue a search for the bear with scent dogs on Monday.

The bear’s behaviour was so atypical that any bear found in the traps in the next few days will likely be euthanised and officials will test later to see if it was the same bear involved in the attack using DNA evidence, Churchill said.

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When bears attack | What to do if you are attacked by a bear

“If it’s brown, lay down; if it’s black, fight back”

• Humans provoke most bear attacks.
• Suddenly appearing before a bear can startle the bear into an instinctive act of aggression.
• But hungry bears often come to human territory looking for food and they can smell food five miles away.
• Brown bears can retreat if they are attacking you in a defensive way – for example, if they are protecting their cubs.
• Get down on the floor and play dead, and they may retreat.
• Black bears do not respond to this. Experts recommend clapping your hands, throwing things and yelling. This can scare them off.
• Make sure you stand your ground – you can’t outrun a bear.
• Experts have also warned that this is not foolproof – black bears sometimes look brown, and brown bears sometimes look black.

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