This happens all the time, and it just shows the level of delusion that a lot of people (who should know better) have about wild animals.
I don't care if you raised it by hand, bottle feeding it from infancy, animals which have never been domesticated are, well, wild. The link is about a grizzly effortlessly, casually killing a guy during something the bear has done without incident dozens of times before. Just ask yourself how many times you've heard of some large predator (famous or otherwise) mangling one of its' handlers (Siegfried and Roy, anyone?).
Not everyone is so clueless however. Knut the "cuddly" polar bear has grown up, and by some (but not all...) accounts is a "psychopath". At least that zoo has the brains to recognize what they're dealing with, even if they ignored the opinion of Knut's own mother and animal behaviour specialists by keeping him alive in the first place.
Off my beaten track I know, but I need a break from the dismal big picture, and I'm sure you could stand one too. If you're really lucky, you'll get my paranoid rantings about why my attempts to reinstall XP on my desktop giving me fits (hint: it's a Microsoft conspiracy, I tells ya!).
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