The woman was found dead in an area north of the town of Durango last Friday. The woman’s friend hit according to the BBC alarm when he got home and found only the two dogs there. There was no trace of his wife. After a search, he found her torn body.
Human remains
The Colorado Parks and Wilflife Service (CPW) arrived after the friend’s call and suspected that the woman had been attacked by a bear, partly because there were large amounts of bear poo and hair with the woman and because her body was no longer intact. used to be.
A black female bear with two cubs between one and two years old was found near the woman. The animals were killed ‘in a humane way’. An investigation revealed that there were human remains in the bears’ stomachs.
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CPW states in a statement that they are reluctant to euthanize bears unless they can be dangerous to humans. That was the case with this bear; CPW manager Cory Chick said the bears would likely attack humans again. “Once a bear has injured or eaten a human, we don’t take the risk that it could happen to anyone else,” he says in a statement.
Dangerous animal
According to him, a bear that loses its fear of people is a dangerous animal. “This mother taught her young that humans are a food source, not something to be feared and avoided.”
The woman’s body is expected to be further investigated tomorrow to officially determine the cause of death.
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About 17,000 to 20,000 black bears live in Colorado. In the past two years, the CPW has received more than 10,000 reports of incidents involving bears. Almost 900 cases involved incidents in which bears broke into houses, homes or garages.
Deadly attack rare
A deadly attack by a bear is uncommon in Colorado. The last time that happened, according to the BBC in 2009, when a 74-year-old woman was killed after being attacked by a bear near her house. According to CPW investigations, the victim was illegally feeding animals through a fence in her yard.
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