Bear 402, a female bear slated to be a contestant in this year's competition, was killed by a male brown bear on the day the brackets were due to be released. According to her bio page on explore ...

The man, identified as Mr Piotr, said he whistled to alert the bears that he was in the forest in Bratislava, Slovakia, but they paid no notice and charged him down ...

Andre Rives was hunting boars in the French Pyrenees on November 20, 2021, when the female brown bear called Caramelles, protecting her cubs, charged and mauled him in a terrifying assault.

His face and right hand are still numb in parts. A day after the attack, the body of a female brown bear, measuring 1.5 meters long and weighing 160 kilograms, was found a slight distance away.