He claimed to be “protecting” the bears, when in reality, he was placing them in harms way. Bears do not need the type of protection he thought he was providing them. Wild animals do not need body guards. He ended up getting two beautiful bears killed and might have even endangered several more. There are now several wild bears in Alaska who aren’t as scared of humans as they once were.

If you want to protect the bears, stay out of their habitat or love them from afar. If one charges you…SHOOT it! And for heaven’s sake….please don’t play in their poo!

The only thing I could come up with was someone who was very sad and disappointed with the way his life had been going. It was like he was looking for the extreme “look at me”. Why would he risk the life of his girlfriend who was so afraid of bears? Wasn’t he messing with nature?

I left the theatre feeling a bit sad because of his death, but I also felt happy because he had at least found something he was completely passionate about. I think everyone wishes they could find that one thing they’re passionate about, just like Timothy was with his grizzlies.

Highly recommend watching this documentary.

I previously posted a link to an article where other people, some of them wildlife experts, were also frustrated or amazed by Treadwell’s weird, childlike behaviour. Their opinions were similar to Brad’s. If you have different opinions, good for you! This doesn’t entitle you to name his review “borderline incompetent”. And concerning the writing style, I had no problem understanding – if you find it “muddled, hard to read”, maybe there is a problem with you.

And give the guy a break regarding Johnny Knoxville. He has the right to an opinion! I happen to disagree on it – it’s possible, but very unlikely to happen. Anyway, I don’t try to kick him each time he mentions it – I actually find it rather funny that he believes it would happen and keeps repeating it.

now that would make a good video edition!

My boyfriend saw this and thought it wasn’t very good as well, but he did say the bear guy was funny at times.

> “He’s the only one I’ve consistently had concern for,” Tom Smith (U.S. Geological Survey bear researcher) said.

> “He had kind of a childlike attitude about him.”

Exactly what Brad noticed.

> “I told him to be much more cautious … because every time a bear kills somebody, there is a big increase in

> bearanoia and bears get killed,” Sterling Miller (formerly the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s top bear

> authority) said. “I thought that would be a way of getting to him, and his response was ‘I would be honored to

> end up in bear scat.'”

Well… he eventually did. Anyway, based on what I’ve heard so far, the guy seems to have been a wacko, not just

a “playful person”.

> “Treadwell and Huguenard, who was in the process of moving from Colorado to Malibu to live with Treadwell, had

> last been heard from Sunday afternoon when they used a satellite phone to talk to Jewel Palovak (a Malibu

> associate of Treadwell). Palovak said she talked with Treadwell about his favorite bear, a sow he called Downy.

> Treadwell had been worried, Palovak said, that the sow might have wandered out of the area and been killed by

> hunters. So instead of returning to California at the end of September as planned, Treadwell lingered at Kaflia to

> look for her. Palovak said Treadwell was excited to report finding the animal alive.”

They aren’t mentioning anything about a plane ticket problem.