Biologists and field staff at the nearby McNeil River State Game Sanctuary were learning to read brown bear behavior, challenging longtime assumptions that bears were unpredictable. (Bears really ...

even though they recognized the killing as normal wild bear behavior. Naomi Boak, Katmai Conservancy communications and media consultant, suggests that it’s beneficial for people to see brown bears as ...

Fat Bear Week, a celebration of brown bears’ survival instincts ... t anthropomorphize what's going on and assume that a bear's behavior is like our behavior. It's very different, these are ...

This is not typical brown bear behavior, Corniou explained. He said he’s dealt with other human-bear conflicts but has never seen an attack like the one involving Dana and her boyfriend. Read Next: ...