An Alaskan man was attacked by a black bear at a campground on Saturday, after he fed the animal a piece of meat.
The Alaska state Department of Fish and Game said that the bear was "pretty much goaded" into pouncing on the man, but that the animal will most likely not hurt anyone else.
According to Spokesperson Ken Marsh, who spoke with the Anchorage Daily News, the attack occurred near Eklutna Lake Campground, located north of Anchorage.
The man attended a church picnic on Saturday at about 5 p.m. He left the party to go for a solo bike ride, and took some food from the 'cue with him.
When he encountered the black bear near a campground fee station close to a park, Alaska State Trooper spokesperson Beth Ipsen said, he threw a piece of meat at it.
Then, struck by inspiration to feed the bear further, he offered up another piece of meat.
"That's when it kind of went ballistic," Ipsen reported.
The bear leapt on the man, punching holes through his jaw and scratching him multiple times in the back.
When park rangers came upon the man's bloodied body as he rinsed off at the campground, Alaska Department of Fish and Game spokesperson Ken Marsh said that the man was not "terribly coherent."
"He was unsure of where the attack actually happened," Marsh explained.
As there were no witnesses to relay what went down during the attack, the man had a hard time explaining exactly how and where he got bloody and scratched up when a trooper interviewed him at the hospital.
Fish and Game biologists maintain that people should not try to feed wild animals, because it raises instinctual alarm within them.
The man's identity has not been released because he could face charges of illegally feeding wildlife.
This isn't the first time that humans and animals have gone head-to-head: on Friday, a woman from Connecticut who was attacked by a chimpanzee was denied clearance to sue the state for $150 million, after a friend's chip jumped on her, ripping off her nose, lips, eyelids and hands.
