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Everyone posting in here is more or less full of shit.
I worked at Katmai for a few years. Those bears are so fucking chill that what treadwell was doing really wasn’t that insane. Anywhere else in the world, yeah, fucking bonkers to be that close to a brown bear. But The coastal brown bears along the coast of the Alaskan peninsula are fat mother fuckers who generally don’t give two shits about people because they are bursting at the seams with salmon. One poster here was mostly right that the main thing that went wrong was that he stayed too late in the season and got super unlucky. The bear that got him was an emaciated old boar with missing and rotted teeth. A bear that would not have survived much longer even if it wasn’t killed by first responders. Staying as late in the season as he did increased the probability of him running into a problem bear like the one that killed him. That was his biggest mistake. He should have known better to not be there so late in the season. That said, there’s definitely an element of very bad luck mixed in albeit, bad luck that he opened himself up to.
Actually one of the Brooks falls bears just got killed by a similarly old boar. The old boar was known as “patches” because of his many scars from fighting. In his older age he lost a few teeth and was relatively thin compared to the other bears. Out of desperation he attacked a sow in the river and drowned her (on camera) and then proceeded to eat her. A sure sign of starvation much like what happened with treadwell. A bear is only going to eat people or other bears if it’s absolutely desperate.
