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On May 5, a bear apparently mauled a Collier County man and his dog to death. Has this happened before? How can you protect ...
Bears sent to University of Florida for examination after 89-year-old Robert Markel of Jerome, his dog killed during attack.
The last documented black bear attack in Collier County happened Jan. 9, 2018, when a black bear attacked a man in his North ...
The attack occurred in a rural area east of Naples, just south of Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area, authorities said.
Robert Markel and his dog were found mauled to death on May 5, 2025, in a black bear attack in rural Jerome in Collier County ...
Wildlife officials in Florida are working to find the bear, or bears, behind an attack that killed an 89-year-old man and his ...
Robert Markel's daughter called to report a bear had just killed her father's dog, officials found Markel's body yards away.
An 89-year-old man and his dog were killed in Collier County in Florida's first fatal bear attack. How common are attacks in Florida, Pensacola.
A man and a dog were killed by a black bear in Collier County, Florida on May 5, 2025. This is the second black bear attack in Florida this year, both involving dogs. Florida Fish and Wildlife ...
As FWC awaits DNA analysis of the deadly bear attack in Collier County, a neighbor from the remote community shared his ...
A Florida man was found dead in the woods near Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area in Collier County on Monday, May 5, apparently mauled by a bear. Wildlife officials were called to the scene ...
Florida Fish and Wildlife is investigating after a man and a dog died in a suspected black bear attack on May 5, 2025, just south of the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area in Collier County.