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Lions & Bears
We often have reports of mountain lion sitings and every year there are a few people attacked by them, some even killed. They come down from the foothills/mountains looking for food.
A few years back, one was caught in the underground parkade of the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria.
Black bears are more of a problem here though. They wake up hungry, go looking in garbage and fruit trees in the back yards. The animal services people try to capture them then truck them up to some far off place and release them (if they can).
I'm glad the grizzlies are a few hundred miles north or further inland from where we are on the coast. I'm sure everyone has seen the videos of them catching salmon when they return to spawn. There are protected areas for the Grizzlies, but I think the government may still issue a few
licenses each year to those trophy hunters.
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