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of the attack's location. After searching for a while through the thick brush, Anderson heard the faint moans of the victim, whom he found lying at the foot of a tree, unconscious and severely mutilated. Realising that the man was dying, Anderson carried him for a short distance, before spraining his ankle and collapsing. The victim died at 5 in the morning, and
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The reasons given to explain the Mysore sloth bear's unusual behaviour varied. Some of the natives within the bear's killing range thought that the bear was a sow taking revenge on humanity after her cubs were stolen. Others thought that it was a male which had previously abducted a young girl as its
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a mile from the village. Anderson arrived at the site at 5:00 pm and spent the night at the foot of the largest tree, hoping that the bear would come. At roughly 11:00 pm, Anderson heard the bear digging for roots in the distance, and an hour later, it approached the boram tree. Anderson shone his
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The bear's depredations first came to the attention of
Kenneth Anderson when a friend of his named Alam Bux sent him a postcard, urgently asking him to come to his home, a shrine situated between Arsikere and
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