A grizzly bear attacked and seriously injured a man in western Wyoming’s Grand Teton national park, prompting closure to the public of a mountain there on Monday.That mauling was one of at least two serious animal attacks on people in the US wilderness on Sunday. Elsewhere, in Alaska, a 70-year-old man who was attempting to take photos of newborn moose calves was attacked and killed by their mother, authorities said.The grizzly was part of a pair that surprised a 35-year-old man from Massachusetts on Sunday afternoon on Signal Mountain. Rescuers flew the injured man by helicopter to an ambulance that drove him to a nearby hospital.He was expected to recover, park officials said in a statement, declining to identify him.The statement did not detail the man’s injuries or say how he encountered the bear. Park officials closed a trail and the road to an overlook atop the 7,700ft (2,300-meter) mountain.The attack happened as Grand Teton and nearby Yellowstone national park begin their busy summer tourist season.Several such attacks occur each year as the region’s grizzly population has grown. Park officials urge people to give bears plenty of space, carry bear spray and avoid leaving out food that might attract them.Meanwhile, in Alaska, the man killed there was identified as Dale Chorman, said a spokesperson for the state’s public safety department, Austin McDaniel.The female moose had recently given birth to the calves in Chorman’s home town of Homer. Chorman and another man were “walking through the brush looking for the moose … when the cow moose attacked Dale”, McDaniel said.The attack happened as the two men were running away, according to McDaniel. The second man, who has not been publicly identified, was uninjured.That person did not witness the attack, so authorities cannot say if the moose killed Chorman by kicking or stomping him, or a combination.Medics pronounced Chorman dead at the scene. The cow moose left the area, Alaska state troopers said in an online post.There are as many as 200,000 moose in Alaska, a state with a human population of about 737,000. The largest of the deer family, a small adult female moose can weigh up to 800lbs (363kg), while a large adult male can weigh twice that, according to Alaska’s department of fish and game. The animals can stand almost 6ft (1.8 meters) tall.The animals are not normally aggressive, but can become so if provoked, according to the fish and game department’s website.A cow moose will become very protective over young calves and will attack humans who come too close, the department said.In 1995, a moose stomped a 71-year-old man to death when he was trying to enter a building on the campus of the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Witnesses said students had been throwing snowballs and harassing the moose and its calf for hours, and the animals were agitated when the man tried to walk past them.



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