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Bears and Humans
Mark Walters, Nov., 1992, Reader's Digest, p. 35
Bears and Humans
Mark Walters, Nov., 1992, Reader's Digest, p. 35
The late Earl J. Fleming, an Alaska state biologist, was perhaps the only man to investigate objectively the bear's reputation for attacking humans. When Fleming encountered a bear, he neither ran nor shot. At the end of his unique study, he had encountered 81 brown bears, and although several staged mock charges, not one actually attacked.
