it saw humans and thought ..food...moving fast and making noise...maybe dangerous ..that human smell but still
Or it knew it was being tracked?
I don’t know if bears comprehend being tracked...they do know threats
they kill for threat or food or some cranky ones just kill
like housecats do
I don’t bear hunt but unless they are endangered it’s fine with me...I might shoot one if I wanted a big rug and utilize some of the meat...I prefer herbivore flesh as a rule..even down to grain ducks over divers...that sort of thing
oddly enough we have a had a rash of black bears killing folks down here in mountainous south of late...I think the last was an old sow who killed an old woman taking a picture
you never know...when I was a boy at Lake Bruin(go figure) Louisiana we had swamp blacks that rifled garbage and dead fishlines and stuff..not sure if any are still there or not...they had some at the local state park too...probably under water right now
no one hunted them really not like in Appalachia
we used to hear stories of my grandpa and his old black man...camphouse handyman/fishing buddy/hunting partner...Sylvester and how one got after them from the bank when they were fishing one morning
after that Grandfather always said Sylvester was like Jesus..he could walk on water too