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Subject: He had a good success for 13 years!
Date: Mar 6, 2006
What's interesting about this whole thing, and what everyone seems to ignore perhaps because of his tragic death, is that for THIRTEEN years Treadwell successfully mingled with dangerous, carnivorous, wild animals unaccustomed to human contact!
The year he died he was camping very late in the season when bears are irritable and hungry and the "fatal bear" was a rogue: not one of the usual crowd he had come to know. If he had simply left at the end of the season who knows how many more years he could have continued his work?
What he did was incredibly dangerous, of course. Bears and humans just don't have enough in common as animals for the kind of interactions that made Jane Goodall's studies with chimps so rewarding. What was amazing was that for 13 years - for whatever reason - the bears not only came to accept Treadwell's presence but let him be a peripheral member of their community. That alone is a testament to his skill as a naturalist.
I watched this film out of curiosity, thinking cynically that Treadwell must be "a nutjob" for mingling with wild bears and "of course he'd be killed" only to be surprised by these facts.
What I saw was a high-strung and sensitive man who for complicated reasons of his own had come to identify with the natural world and the wild animals living in it so heavily that he was literally carving out a different reality for himself - one that, unfortunately, was out of synch with certain universal truths. Dreamers disappointed or hurt by the "real world" will often do this. It takes a ruggedly charismatic, eccentric and very spirited person to do this. Clearly Timothy Treadwell was one of those people.
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