“Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony.” The mother of a woman who was eaten alive by a bear has described the ‘horror’ of being on the phone to her while she was being mauled to death. 19-year-old Olga Moskalyova had been taking what began as a summer a stroll with her […]

1 year ago

The bear fell out the tree when another hunter shot the animal A hunter has been killed after a bear shot out of a tree by his partner fell on him, authorities have said. The incident took place in Lunenburg County in Virginia, USA. The Virginia government department said 58-year-old Lester C. Harvey, of Phenix, Virginia, had […]

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Warning: contains details some may find distressing A documentary maker who flew out to Alaska every year to camp with bears ended up being eaten alive along with his girlfriend by one of the animals, in a harrowing story. Timothy ‘Grizzly Man’ Treadwell was a bear enthusiast and documentary maker. For 13 years, he would […]

2 years ago

Warning: contains some details readers may find upsetting A student took a picture of a black bear just moments before the animal mauled him to death. Back in 2014, 22-year-old Rutgers University student Darsh Patel was hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve in West Milford, New Jersey. During their hike, the group noticed […]

2 years ago

Hangzhou Zoo in China has been forced to issue a statement denying the claims A new video has emerged of the bear at the centre of claims she in fact a person in a costume, and it is doing nothing to quell the suggestion that it might be true. In recent days the social media […]

2 years ago

Sun bears are the smallest bear species A Chinese zoo has had to deny claims that one of its sun bears is actually just a human in a bear suit after photos of the animal were widely shared online. The pictures showed the bear standing on its hind legs, looking remarkably similar to how a […]

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