WHITEHORSE—There was nothing a woman could have done to prevent a predatory attack by a starving grizzly bear that killed her and her 10-month-old daughter, the Yukon Coroner’s Service has concluded. A grizzly bear fishes along a river in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park near Bella Coola, B.C., on Sept 10, 2010. Yukon chief conservation officer Gordon Hitchcock says an 18-year-old male grizzly that attacked a mother and daughter was too emaciated to hibernate and in pain because it had eaten a porcupine. He fired four shots, killing the bear, before discovering the bodies of his partner and baby daughter, the coroner’s report says. Hitchcock said this is the first double fatal grizzly bear mauling in Yukon to his knowledge.

Source: thestar March 27, 2019 22:26 UTC