Bad travel
Lokan, a 65-year-old American woman, joined her sister and their friends in Tour Divide, an annual bike ride along the Great Divide mountain bike route that runs about 2,700 kilometers long, starting in Alberta, Canada, and ending in Wells, New Mexico, on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Halfway through a small town called Ovando, which has a permanent population of less than 100 people, but is very popular because of the beautiful scenery and beautiful environment, many people camp here. Locan and his party also chose to go camping, setting up a tent at the back of a bar and resting around 7 p.m.
But what they didn't expect was that a grizzly bear quietly appeared 4 kilometers away from their campground, rummaging through the trash cans along the way and slowly approaching the camp. Lokan was about to fall asleep in a daze when she suddenly heard a roar coming from overhead, frightening her to jump up and force her back with the bear spray she had prepared earlier.
The bear turned and fled into the woods, and Lokan woke everyone up and told them about the terrible experience. They then moved snacks and lentils from their tents to a nearby building, checked whether there was food around the camp, and after making sure that there was no mistake, they actually went back to the camp and slept.
But Lokan forgot the blueberry-flavored shampoo he had on his bike.
At 4:05 a.m., the bear reappeared, and it rushed toward Lokan, this time without roaring, biting Lokan's head and dragging her out of the tent. Logan's screams caught the attention of everyone in the camp, and they rushed over and sprayed it with bear spray on the grizzly bear, and the grizzly bear fled again, but Lokan was no longer breathing.
Start an investigation
Wildlife officials did indeed attract the grizzly bear to the taste of food in the camp, but after the first attack, the people in the camp diverted the food, so why did the grizzly bear appear again?
The impact of the case was enormous, and to investigate the matter, a review committee of 11 members was formed, including officials from Montana's fish, wildlife and parks; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service. They argue that although many black and grizzly bears living in the United States have attacked humans, recurrent incidents are rare.
Later, they found that the bears living in the area, because they highly coincided with the area of human activity, adapted to the abundant, human-dominated low-altitude habitat, and they were not afraid of humans, but turned a blind eye. The garbage bins ingested by humans have become their cafeterias.
After retrieving surveillance and recording of other people's sightings at the camp, the committee finally determined that the grizzly bear had been attracted to the blueberry smell of Lokan shampoo because other foods had been removed, and that the surveillance found that the grizzly bear had come for the second time and had gone to the bicycle where Locan had placed the blueberry shampoo before following the smell to attack Lokan who had washed his hair with the shampoo that night.
The bear was killed a few days later, it attacked a chicken coop, the farm owner called the police, the police quickly found the bear, killed it, through DNA comparison, found that it was the one that attacked Locan.
It's really a flying disaster, and it's not the first time a similar tragedy has occurred caused by the coincidence of human and wildlife habitats.
postscript
When camping in the wild, it is best not to put food or anything with a strong smell, such as toothpaste or lotion, away from the tent; Pitch a tent at least 100 meters away from where the food is cooked; If the bear comes to the camp or the tent passes, don't go back and call the police.