Greg Gerber posted on July 30, 2010 13:41
COOKE CITY, Mont. -- The last grizzly bear believed to have been involved in the fatal mauling of a Michigan man at Soda Butte Campground was captured. All four bears are undergoing DNA tests to verify their involvement in the rampage, the Associated Press reported.
A mother bear and two of her three cubs had been trapped by Thursday while the final year-old cub was found in a culvert trap early Friday. They are being transported to the state wildlife lab in Bozeman for testing. If the tests confirmed the bears' were responsible for the death of one camper and the injury of several others, they may be euthanized.
Fibers from a tent or sleeping bag were in the captured bears' droppings, and a tooth fragment found in a tent appears to match a chipped tooth on the 300- to 400-pound sow. Evidence indicates all three cubs were present for and likely participated in what Warden Capt. Sam Sheppard called a sustained attack on Kevin Kammer of Grand Rapids, Mich. He was pulled out his tent and dragged 25 feet and the bears fed on his body.
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