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Glad you and your fiance didn't go all Timothy what's his name....
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Thanks, me too. The biggest difference between Treadwell and me is that he predicted he would one day become bear scat as if it was his destiny or something, whereas I was packing a double holster of UDAP bear neutralizer and always made it a point to stand next to the guy carrying the biggest gun. Guess I didn't see the appeal of spending time in the intenstinal tract of a Kodiak Brown.
It was a little unsettling, though, staying one night at the Shelikoff Lodge (where he used to camp out when not out with the bears) and being only a mile down the river from where he was feasted upon.
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Why do they call him "Big Slush"?
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Hey, Jeff. Shush means 'bear' in the Athabascan dialect of Chipewyan. The naturalist that named him spent many years in the Interior studying the grizzly. The Interior is home to the largest concentrations of Athabascans in Alaska. I assume his time with them motivated the moniker.
By far, Big Shush was the largest, most surly bear on the river. In think the name is also representative of his place in the local hierarchy. The one bear I saw muster the onions to challenge him was summarily trounced and sent scurrying away in a rather emasculating retreat. He was one imposing sumbitch.