Ebook: Bear attacks: their causes and avoidance

Intro; FOREWORD BY PAUL SCHULLERY; INTRODUCTION TO THE 2018 REVISED EDITION; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Grizzly Bear Attacks; CHAPTER 2 Sudden Encounters with Grizzlies; CHAPTER 3 Provoked Attacks; CHAPTER 4 The Dangers of Garbage and Habituation; CHAPTER 5 Other Attacks; CHAPTER 6 Aggression without Injury; CHAPTER 7 The Tolerant Black Bear; CHAPTER 8 The Predaceous Black Bear; CHAPTER 9 Avoiding Encounters; CHAPTER 10 Characteristics of Bears; CHAPTER 11 The Evolution of Bears; CHAPTER 12 Bear Foods and Location; CHAPTER 13 Signs of Bear Activity; CHAPTER 14 Learning and Instinct.;What causes bear attacks? When should you play dead and when should you fight an attacking bear? What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks? And, more generally, what is the bear's future? Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching landmark study of the attacks made on men and women by the great grizzly and the occasionally deadly black bear. This is a book for everyone who hikes, camps, or visits bear country-and for anyone who wants to know more about these sometimes fearsome but always fascinating wild creatures.