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Yellowstone grizzly mauls visitor
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[May 24, 2007]
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) -- A park
visitor was attacked by a grizzly bear Wednesday and hiked miles to
safety with severe facial injuries, park officials said.
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The man, in his late 50s, was taking photographs of bears when he
was attacked, according to a statement from the park. He told
rangers he had been attacked by a sow with a cub. After the
attack, he hiked two to three miles and was discovered by other park
visitors around 1 p.m., the statement said. He was hospitalized, but
officials declined to release his condition Wednesday evening.
"I was told that the injuries to his face were severe,"
Yellowstone spokesman Al Nash said, adding that the injuries were
the type that result from clawing.
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 Park officials will investigate the attack, Nash said.
Grizzly bears and black bears, including sows with cubs, are
active in the spring, Park Service officials said. Park visitors are
encouraged to travel in groups, make noise and carry pepper spray.
No human injuries from bears were reported in Yellowstone last
year, and only eight minor injuries have been reported since 2000,
the Park Service reports. The last bear-caused human fatality in the
park was in 1986.
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