This is the first bear that I ever encountered in person. It was in West Virginia and she had three cubs.
When I walked toward her, she retreated very quickly. She was far from aggressive.
Going through the list that Joe posted, there have been three deaths in California. One was a wild grizzly in the 1870s, one was a captive himalayan brown bear at the san diego zoo and onee was a trained grizzly in big bear a couple of years ago.
going through the list, it seemed like many of the deaths by black bears were either captive, pets, trained or if wild....children.
