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04-22-2005, 04:49 PM
Alaskan man survives second bear mauling (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7602285/?GT1=6428)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Scott MacInnes set an Alaskan record this week, although not one contenders would seek to break. State officials say the 51-year-old biologist is the first person known to have survived two bear attacks.
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MacInnes, a 51-year-old biologist, was mauled during his early morning jog on Monday when he met up with a brown bear and one or two cubs near his home in the Kenai Peninsula town of Soldotna.
He had been mauled 38 years earlier on a well-used hiking trail in the Chugach National Forest, according to a government biologist.
“That’s the only time in the history of the state that I have a record that anybody’s been attacked twice,” said Tom Smith, a bear biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who keeps records of Alaska bear attacks dating to the late 1800s.
The presence of a dog and a food source, a freshly killed moose found nearby, made the bear more aggressive, said Bruce Bartley, a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
When I was a kid living there, the one thing I remember was my older brothers and sisters telling me to come inside because it was getting dark and the bears would come get me. :oops I used to think they just liked to scare me....
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Scott MacInnes set an Alaskan record this week, although not one contenders would seek to break. State officials say the 51-year-old biologist is the first person known to have survived two bear attacks.
advertisement
MacInnes, a 51-year-old biologist, was mauled during his early morning jog on Monday when he met up with a brown bear and one or two cubs near his home in the Kenai Peninsula town of Soldotna.
He had been mauled 38 years earlier on a well-used hiking trail in the Chugach National Forest, according to a government biologist.
“That’s the only time in the history of the state that I have a record that anybody’s been attacked twice,” said Tom Smith, a bear biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who keeps records of Alaska bear attacks dating to the late 1800s.
The presence of a dog and a food source, a freshly killed moose found nearby, made the bear more aggressive, said Bruce Bartley, a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
When I was a kid living there, the one thing I remember was my older brothers and sisters telling me to come inside because it was getting dark and the bears would come get me. :oops I used to think they just liked to scare me....