The Mike Hosking BreakfastRichard Arnold: US Correspondent on Shayne Burke surviving a grizzly bear attack
Shayne Burke survived explosions and gunfire in the Iraq war, and has now survived an attack from a grizzly bear.
The 35-year-old man from Wyoming, USA, was on his honeymoon when he stumbled across a mother grizzly and her cubs in the Grand Tetons National Park.
US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that grizzlies are very protective of their cubs, and within an instant Shayne was fighting for his life.
He said that while he was carrying bear spray, he didn’t have time to use it and it was only upon the bear biting down on the can by accident that they fled.
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