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As Sven led his horse through the trees, he searched out his herd and examined the range for anything that might be harmful to them. His horse was a great way to navigate the tough territory and allowed him to see his surroundings clearly. Sven would stop periodically and make repairs to fences and continue on his way afterward. He and his horse walked the trails, unaware they were being followed by a dangerous visitor with deadly intentions.
Back at the ranch, several hours had passed and Sven hadn’t returned. His family grew concerned and notified authorities of his absence. His rangeland was known and that is where they anticipated he would be. There are many things that can happen when riding a horse, and even Sven wasn’t immune to those risks. Hoping his horse may have come up lame or he had found one of his cattle injured, they launched a search party to find him the next morning.
They picked up Sven’s horse track’s and followed them into the rangeland, but soon noticed an alarming set of tracks merging with Sven’s. The indelible tracks of a very large black bear parallelled Sven’s horse tracks, then converged with them. The bear’s tracks were over his horse tracks proving that the bear was following them and not simply using the trail before them.
The searchers continued to follow Sven’s horse tracks for nearly a half mile, before a large black bear charged them from the brush, then peeled off and disappeared. Hoping the bear was only surprised, they waited to see if it had fled. The bear had circled around and was now chuffing and growling at them from the brush, indicating it was defending something. There were no cubs scampering up trees, what the bear was protecting became an alarming concern.
As they examined the brush, they could see the bear standing near a cache of some sort. Due to the aggressive behavior, and the fact that Sven was missing, they shot the bear so they could continue with their search.
Having dispatched the bear, searchers approached the cache site. Beneath the debris and sticks, they could see Sven’s corpse. It had been partially consumed. Now aware that they had a human fatality on their hands, they cordoned off the area to preserve the evidence until investigators arrived.
The forensics team used the track evidence to help them understand what had transpired that led to Sven’s death and consumption. They could see the bear’s tracks had closed to within a few yards after following the horse for a half mile. As it burst from the brush, Sven’s horse spun to the left and his saddle rolled on the horse’s back. This dumped Sven off the other side and exposed him to the predator.
Based on the evidence at Sven’s attack site, investigators estimate that he managed to fend the bear off for only ten seconds before being subdued. The only weapon found near Sven was his ax, which was lying on the ground a few feet from his corpse.
Sven’s remains were gathered and transported to the coroner for analysis. The bear’s carcass was also taken to a laboratory for a necropsy. The bear was found to be a large male in perfect health, and its stomach contained Sven’s flesh.
Regarding Sven’s horse, there isn’t any source indicating it was killed by the bear. I assume that it had escaped after the bear attacked Sven. Given the details presented, it must have been found with Sven’s saddle askew, providing the reason the cowboy was knocked or thrown from it. But does that indicate that he was thrown from his horse?
In all of Canada, 380,000 black bears roam with 120,000 to 150,000 of them in British Columbia. Nearly all of British Columbia is considered bear country given this high population and dispersion.
Between 1960 and 2014, 109 black bear attacks were reported in Canada, resulting in only twenty human fatalities. In the year 2022 alone, there were 26 bear attacks reported in Canada. Given bears are hibernating for about five months out of the year, it averages out to a little less than four attacks each month.
It is not surprising that the bear that had killed Sven was a male. The statistics indicate that 88% of human fatalities due to bear attack are from bears exhibiting predatory behavior as opposed to defensive behavior. Of those attacks, 92% of the predatory bears were males with 66% of those bears being adults. The conclusion of this analysis is that adult male black bears are about 90 times more likely to target humans as prey, than sows.