YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK -- Wednesday's encounter A female grizzly attacked and remained at large for the killed a Torrance man who time being. encountered the bear and her Authorities are still cubs while he was hiking with investigating the his wife on Wednesday in circumstances of the attack, Yellowstone National Park, but initial information park officials said. indicated the mother bear Authorities identified the behaved normally in defending victim as 57-year-old Brian her cubs and would not be Matayoshi. Matayoshi. killed as a result of her Related actions, park spokeswoman
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Graphic Photo: Chimp Attack all of last year, and Victim Receives Face Wednesday's incident marked TransplantHe and his wife the first bear-caused human Marilyn Matayoshi were hiking death in the park since 1986, on the Wapiti Lake Trail when the Park Service said. they encountered a female But a mother grizzly killed grizzly bear with cubs. one man and injured two other The fatal mauling occurred people in an unusual night- about a mile and a half from time attack on sleeping the start of the Wapiti Lake campers just outside trail, and another group of Yellowstone in Montana last hikers nearby heard the July. victim's wife crying out for The bruin involved in that help and used a cell phone to incident was later trapped call park rangers for and destroyed because the assistance. attacks were considered to be A National Park Service unprovoked. statement said the couple had A bear warning sign is posted inadvertently surprised the at Yellowstone's Wapiti Lake mother grizzly and her cubs, trailhead because it is an and in "an attempt to defend access point to the Pelican a perceived threat to her Valley area known for cubs, the bear attacked and significant bear activity. fatally wounded the man." No bear encounters had been The victim's identity and reported along or near that hometown have been withheld trail this season, the Park pending notification of other Service said. family members. The bears involved in
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