These sorts of tragedies have become more common since it became popular to hike\camp in remote areas. Forty or so years ago when I visited Yellowstone no one would have considered going where people now commonly go.
Bears are not pets and even so called "tamed" ones in a circus are not "tame" at all. That's the reason people pay to see lion, or bear trainer acts in a circus...because if the animals in the cages were tame Labrador dogs who would pay to see that? The trainer takes a risk going into a cage with them. He accepts that risk, we pay to see him take that risk.
Sad that they feel they need to destroy an animal for doing and being the very thing that makes them "special" or "interesting" animals to us in the first place.
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