How People Should Respond When Encountering a Large Carnivore: Opinions of Wildlife Professionals

• Main Authors: Brown, Dylan E., Conover, Michael R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@USU 2008
• Subjects: animal attacks; black bear; carnivores; grizzly bear; human–wildlife conflicts; mountain lion; predator attacks; wolf; Animal Sciences; Bear Mountain; Canis lupus; gray wolf; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/hwi/vol2/iss2/13; https://doi.org/10.26077/453w-ry54; https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/hwi/article/1314/viewcontent/Brown_Conover.pdf

We conducted telephone surveys of wildlife professionals who work with large carnivores to ask their opinions about how people should respond to avoid being injured when confronted by a black bear (Ursus americana), grizzly bear (Ursus arctos), mountain lion (Puma concolor), or gray wolf (Canis lupu...