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Man Fights Bear | National Geographic


00:00:10Jacqueline is at the table as Mark slips

00:00:15behind the tent to change his clothes

00:00:19suddenly a dark shape appears from

00:00:22behind the brush heading toward

00:00:26Jacqueline a black bear just as Mark

00:00:32shouts a warning jack bear the attacker

00:00:36strikes

00:00:49in the blink of an eye she’s fighting

00:00:53for her life what is happening when

00:01:04bears do attack it’s usually a grizzly

00:01:07bear that’s the culprit

00:01:12the 800-pound Giants are responsible for

00:01:1580% of bear attacks on humans

00:01:21attacks by black bears are extremely

00:01:24rare black bears are usually timid

00:01:29creatures that shy away from humans the

00:01:33least likely animal one would expect an

00:01:35encounter with since 1991

00:01:40more than 120 million people have

00:01:43visited Canada’s provincial parks in

00:01:47that time there were no fatal attacks by

00:01:51black bears

00:01:55and there’s never been an attack in this

00:01:59Ontario Park at least not until now

00:02:10rushing to Jaclyn’s defense mark grabs

00:02:13the bear around the neck and prize at

00:02:15offer jaclyn tries to escape but

00:02:20collapses to the ground

00:02:25with a quick bite to the neck the bear

00:02:28throws mark aside

00:02:31mark is stunned but not out of the fight

00:02:36the Bears attention now turns back to

00:02:39Jacqueline mark grabs the only weapon at

00:02:44hand his pocketknife and jumps between

00:02:47the bear and his wife now man and beast

00:02:53face off each one sizing of the other