Woman Gets Too Close To Take Photo Of Bear, Gets Charged By The Animal
Trouble Afoot
He hurried through a tangle of bushes to a clearing where several tourists had parked their cars. There was trouble afoot because most of them fled and locked themselves in their vehicles.
The ranger brought his rifle with him, hoping he wouldn’t use it because the region was grizzly bear territory. He sped past the cars but stopped at what he saw.
Being A Park Ranger
When Brody decided to work as a park ranger, he only wanted to fulfill his childhood dream. He’d worked hard through school, finally getting a chance to train as a ranger.
Before he knew it, he was patrolling the beaten paths of Yellowstone National Park, ensuring that everything was in order. But what would happen that day would show him that the wild was a place to be respected.
Brody McCormick
Brody McCormick was your average twenty-nine-year-old ranger from Wyoming, United States. A lover of the outdoors and everything it brought, he enjoyed spending time in the wild where nature and peace intertwined.
The only child to a botanist mom and zoologist dad, it came as no shock that Brody would forge a life steeped in Biology. All his life, he’d wanted to be a ranger so he could protect wildlife. But that day, he’d find himself stopping instead of rushing to help.
Growing Up
Brody grew up with the great stories surrounding the wild Yellowstone National Park. His dad, who centered his studies on the park’s magnificent animals, always regaled him with these tales, ensuring that Brody’s childhood was magical.
But although these stories were always captivating, his dad never failed to inject caution within them. One, in particular, stayed with Brody through the years: the warnings surrounding grizzly bears.
The Top Of The Food Chain
Among the three species of bears native to North America, grizzlies rank second in terms of viciousness, nearly surpassing the white-coated polar bear. Grizzlies not only weigh between 700 to 1700 pounds but can be as tall as five feet when standing on their hind legs.
An apex predator in most ecological systems, they’re more than capable of climbing trees, swimming through most water bodies, and outrunning any human fleeing on their feet. Safe to say that antagonizing such terrifying spawns of nature should be the last thing on anyone’s mind.