Bear Attacks in Canada
The frequency and severity of bear attacks have significantly increased in North America in recent years, a result of increasing human development in bear country and a growing number of people travelling in wildereness areas. Learning to avoid a bear attack is essential information that everyone should have before they explore the great outdoors. Failure to do so can result in needless tragedy in terms of both human and animal loss of life.

This sensitive book explores the often-fatal relationship between bears and humans and sheds insight on how we can learn to better share the wilderness with the largest carnivore on the continent.

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Bear Attacks in Canada
The frequency and severity of bear attacks have significantly increased in North America in recent years, a result of increasing human development in bear country and a growing number of people travelling in wildereness areas. Learning to avoid a bear attack is essential information that everyone should have before they explore the great outdoors. Failure to do so can result in needless tragedy in terms of both human and animal loss of life.

This sensitive book explores the often-fatal relationship between bears and humans and sheds insight on how we can learn to better share the wilderness with the largest carnivore on the continent.

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Bear Attacks in Canada

Bear Attacks in Canada

by Erin McCloskey
Bear Attacks in Canada

Bear Attacks in Canada

by Erin McCloskey

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Overview

The frequency and severity of bear attacks have significantly increased in North America in recent years, a result of increasing human development in bear country and a growing number of people travelling in wildereness areas. Learning to avoid a bear attack is essential information that everyone should have before they explore the great outdoors. Failure to do so can result in needless tragedy in terms of both human and animal loss of life.

This sensitive book explores the often-fatal relationship between bears and humans and sheds insight on how we can learn to better share the wilderness with the largest carnivore on the continent.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781551055626
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing
Publication date: 05/05/2008
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents


Introduction     6
Black Bear     15
Black Bear Attacks     35
Grizzly Bear     66
Grizzly Bear Attacks     92
Polar Bear     124
Polar Bear Attacks     148
Avoidance Techniques Against Bear Encounters     174
Deterrents     200
Emergency Situations     214
Terminology     216
Plant Index     220
Table     223
References     224
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