Man Shoots Dead Grizzly Bear In Montana After Attacked

UNSPLASH/Paxson Woelber ILLUSTRATION

JAKARTA - A man who picked a huckleberry in Montana, United States (US) shot dead a grzzly bear after the bear attacked. The man was hospitalized with a wound being attacked by a bear.

The 72-year-old shot the bear with a gun, according to a Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks statement. The attack took place in the Flathead National Forest about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) north of Columbia Falls.

The department did not provide further information regarding the man's identity and his condition was reported by ABC News, Saturday, July 20.

Meanwhile, Fish staff, Wildlife & Parks shot and an adult female Grizzly bear on Thursday, July 18, after she was used to looking for food from humans and breaking into houses around Gardiner. The female Grizzlies are known to attack to keep their child.

Animal foods, trash and kiosks left outside and reachable by bears contribute to this problem.

Wildlife managers often catch and movegrizzly bears that are known to cause problems for humans.

But sometimes they kill people they think will continue to cause problems even though they are moved.

An estimated 2,000grizzlies bears roam in western Wyoming, eastern Idaho, western Montana, while several thousand others inhabit the Rock Mountains of Canada and Alaska.

Grizzly bears in the adjacent US region are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.