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Arcance Authorities shot and killed a male black bear, which they believe Missouri Man in his campsite last week Ozark National Forest, officials said on Monday.
Max Thomas Body SpringfieldMissouri, on Thursday, was discovered by several yards outside Sam’s throne campground at Northwest Arkansas, said Newton County Sheriff Glenn Wheeler.
The wheeler said that a deputy had gone to the campground when the man’s son told that he had not heard from his father, who sent family pictures of a black bear to his camp on Tuesday morning. The deputy found evidence of a conflict and injury, including the drag marks in the forest from the campground, Sheriff said.
“We believe he was in the process of breaking his camp when the attack took place,” said the wheeller.
The office of the state’s medical examiner determined the death of the man as “animal motor”.
The wheeler stated that on Sunday, a bear was caught on a trail camera near the campground, which appeared as the same animal photographed by the victim and another person faced a roadside ignoring a roadside in the area.
Local hunters and wounds were brought to the area and the bear was quickly tracked, which was killed and taken Little RockWhere the authorities will receive DNA samples to confirm that it is a bear who has attacked the man badly.
“We knew that the bear was a man in the pictures and is also one,” the wheeler said in a press release. “It matches the size of the photographed bear and has similar colors of face. Not to mention that it came back to the same area where the attack took place.”
This is the second deadly bear attack in Arkansas in recent weeks. According to officials of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, in September, a 72 -year -old man died after a 72 -year -old man was attacked by a bear at Franklin County.
Despite the recent attacks, Don White Jr., a large mammal ecologist at Arkansas University in Montislo, said the deadly bears’ attacks in Arkansas are “highly rare”.
The last confirmed deadly bear attack in Arkansas in Arkansas, said Keith Stephens, spokesperson of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
Although Black bears were common in Arkansas before European settlement, by the 1930s, the number decreased to 50, White said. In the 1950s and 1960s, after the revaluation of hundreds of black bears in Arkansas’s Achita and Ozark mountains, those numbers have continued to climb, with the estimated 5,000 black bears in the state now, although White said it is difficult to indicate the figure.