Labort tests combine black bear, which was killed by wild animal officers from Florida to make people and their dog fatal

Laboratory results have connected one of three black bears that were killed by wildlife officers in the southwest of Florida with a killed killing fatal attack A man and his dog said the officials the day before on Friday.

The results of the necropsia showed that a 263-pound-male bear contained the partial remains of the 89-year-old Robert Markel, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a statement. Test showed that the DNA of the same bear was present on Markel's body, in his house and on the body's body.

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Wildlife officials said that this was “confirmed as the first fatal black bear attack in Florida in the history of state history.”

A preliminary autopsy of the Collier County Medical Examiner showed that Markel's cause of death corresponds to a bear attack.

Markel was attacked in the vicinity of his house in a rural area east of Naples, south of the Big Cypress Wildlife Management area, near his house.

Jerome is located in the South Bear Management Unit, which according to FWC has the third largest population of bears in the state to 1,044 in 2015.

Wildlife officials set several traps and cameras. They killed three black bears in the area and sent their remains to a Gainesville laboratory. None of the animals that were tested positively for rabies said civil servants. There was an unsuccessful attempt to catch a fourth bear.

Wildlife officers still investigate the events that have led to the attack.

Florida's black bears that were once threatened have increasingly hiked to neighborhoods and privately owned in recent years, especially in more rural areas of northern and central floridas.

FWC stated that an average of 6,300 bear calls annually and to document 42 earlier incidents in which Wilde Schwarzbären have taken physical contact since the 1970s were kept as comprehensive records. Three of these led to serious injuries that required medical help before the death of this week.

Call the FWC Wildlife Hotline under 888-404-FWCC (3922) if you feel threatened by a bear. Watch a sick, injured, dead or orphaned bear; Or report someone who either damages bears or deliberately feeds.

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