This is a horrible story and
difficult to read. I am no fan of
humanity allowing large carnivores anywhere near their presence and this is a
case of a camping trip gone seriously wrong.
Anyone who has worked in the
wilderness for any length of time has had close calls. It follows that without such specific
experience a person’s exposure to the wild needs to be in the form of human
refugia such as semi developed campsites that are patrolled for such problems. It is still dangerous, but these areas become
the territory of carnivores that are used to humans and such interactions. All this lowers the risk.
However, landing in the middle of
bear country as an extremely rare visitor is actually insane. Bears are carnivores and we smell like an
interesting new food source. Compounding
the insanity is to not be packing a high powered rifle to stop a charging bear. A bear traveling at forty miles per hour is
not going to notice bear spray or even a badly aimed shot at short range.
What happened here is shocking
and yet inevitable. That is the real
face of the wild.
Russian Mom Hears Daughter's Final Agony As She Is Eaten Alive By Bears
First Posted: 8/18/11 12:19 PM ET Updated: 8/18/11 07:17 PM ET
A Russian mother listened helplessly on a cellphone to her teenage
daughter crying for help earlier this week as she was eaten alive by bears.
The horrified mother of Olga Moskalyova, a 19-year-old psychologist in training,
heard her daughter's desperate pleas for help after receiving a call from her
daughter on a mobile phone.
Tatiana Tsyganenkov listened in horror to the screams as her daughter
was attacked by a brown bear and its three cubs Wednesday nearPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in eastern Siberia .
According to The Daily Mail, Moskalyova screamed, "Mum, the bear
is eating me! Mum, it's such agony. Mum, help!"
Tsyganenkov said she initially thought her daughter was joking but
quickly realized there was a desperate struggle going on and that her daughter
was fighting for her life.
"I heard the real horror and pain in Olga's voice and the sounds
of a bear growling and chewing. I could have died then and there from
shock," Tsyganenkov said, according to NineMSN.
Moskalyova and her stepfather, Igor Tsyganenkov, were camping near a
river in Russia
During the struggle, the girl's calls to her mother were cut off at
least three times. The girl somehow managed to call her mother back each time.
A helpless Tsyganenkov could only listen in horror to her daughter's screams
for mercy.
In a second call to her mother, Moskalyova said, "Mum, the bears
are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They're... eating
me," The Daily Mail reported.
When the call was disconnected, a panic-stricken Tatiana Tsyganenkov
contacted police in the nearby village
of Termalniy
Moskalyova spoke with her mother one last time roughly an hour after
she made the first call.
"Mum, it's not hurting anymore. I don't feel the pain. Forgive me
for everything. I love you so much," she said.
When authorities later arrived on the scene, they found Igor
Tsyganenkov's body. The mother bear was still devouring his remains when they
came upon the scene, Dubai Media reported. Moskalyova's badly mauled body was
found not far away. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Half a dozen hunters were later dispatched to kill the mother bear and
her three cubs. Authorities have not yet commented on whether the hunt
succeeded.
"My daughter was such fun. She was so cheerful, friendly, and
warm," Tatiana Tsyganenkov said, her words spoken in a voice diminished by
grief. "She had graduated from music school, and just days before the bear
attack she got her driving license."
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