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A hunter was attacked by a brown bear Thursday morning near Ship Creek after he shot it but didn’t realize it was still alive, an Alaska Department of Fish and Game official said.
The hunter, treated at a hospital for injuries, was able to make his way out of the area without calling for rescue, said Cory Stantorf, an assistant wildlife biologist for the Anchorage area.
The man shot a large adult brown bear between about 9 and 10 a.m. in an area near Ship Creek and up the valley from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson land, Stantorf said. It is legal to hunt in the area, he said.
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The man then approached the bear, which he thought was dead, and it got up and charged him, the biologist said.
The bear wounded him during the attack, according to Stantorf, although he said he…
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Exposing the Big Game 
He was ‘attacked’ by a bear he shot? That sounds like the bear defending himself from being attacked to me. Unless we think they should go without question to the human king?
‘Humans are all that matters.’