1.   Male bears live a mostly solitary existence, away from the female and cubs.

2.   Most adult male bears spend their lives out on the pack ice, living mainly on seals.

3.   But he added that this is the time of year when young male bears leave their dens in search of mates and their own territory.

4.   For one thing, male bears in some species have a habit of killing the existing offspring of any female taken as a new mate.

5.   The female Asiatic black bear was killed by a male bear after years of fights between the two animals.

6.   When federal safety inspectors interviewed Haynes about the attack, she told them the male bear was aggressive because he was too close to a cage containing cubs.

7.   Local hunters chased the male bear out of their settlement and later found the dead body of a female bear in the forest.

8.   The male bear attack occurred when the woman was picking raspberries in a forest in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, the daily Segodnya said.