Judea Mountain, Arkansas – Judea, Arkansas (AP)-The Arkansas officials opened fire on the black bear who believed to be a farewell to a 60-year-old Missouri man last week at the camp site in the Ozrk National Forest.
Sharif, Newton County Sherif Glenn Wheeler, said that Max Thomas’s body was discovered from Springfield, Missouri, on Thursday, on several yards outside the Arch of the throne of Sam in the northwest of Arkansas.
Wheeler said that a deputy went to the camp after he informed the son of the man that he had not heard from his father, who sent his family photos to a black bear in his camp on Tuesday morning. Al -Sharif said that the deputy found evidence of a conflict and injury, including signs of clouds from the camp to the woods.
“We think he was in the process of breaking his camp when the attack occurred,” said Wheeler.
The government medical examiner office decided that the man’s death would be “tightening animals.”
On Sunday, Wheeler said a bear was arrested on a trail camera near the camp, which seemed to be the same animal that the victim had filmed and faced another man on the side of the road side in the area.
The fishermen and localists were brought to the area and soon followed the bear, which was killed and transferred to Little Rock, where the authorities will get DNA samples to confirm that the bear was the one who attacked the murderous man.
“We knew that the bear in the pictures was male and that’s too,” Wheeler said in a press statement. “It matches the size of the photographer and has the same colors of the face. Not to mention that he returned in the same area where the attack took place.”
This is the second deadly bear attack in Arkansas in recent weeks. In September, 72 years old The man died after being attacked By a bear in the nearby Franklin Province, according to the authorities with the Fish and Fish Committee in Arkansas.
In spite of the recent attacks, Don White Junior, a large mammal environment scientist at Arkansas University in Montesso, said the deadly bear attacks in Arkansas are “very rare”.
Keith Stevens, spokesman for the Fish and Fish Committee in Arkansas, said the last confirmed attack in Arkansas was in 1892.
Although black bears were common in Arkansas before the European settlement, the numbers diminished to less than 50 by the thirties of the twentieth century. These numbers have continued to climb since the re -introduction of hundreds of black bears in the Uchita and Ozark Mountains in Arkansas in the fifties and sixties, with an estimated 5,000 black bear in the state now, although this number said that this number is difficult to determine.