I think he did more damage to the bears... when you habituate bears to humans, they think...
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Sven Haakanson Jr. - Alutiiq Museum Director:
He tried to act like a bear, and for us on the island, you don't do that. You don't invade on their territory... For him to act like a bear the way he did, to me it was the ultimate of disrespecting the bear and what the bear represents. Werner Herzog:
But he tried to protect the bears, didn't he? Sven Haakanson Jr. - Alutiiq Museum Director:
I think he did more damage to the bears... when you habituate bears to humans, they think all humans are safe... If I look at it from my culture, Timothy Treadwell crossed a boundary that we have lived with for 4,000 years
He tried to act like a bear, and for us on the island, you don't do that. You don't invade on their territory... For him to act like a bear the way he did, to me it was the ultimate of disrespecting the bear and what the bear represents. Werner Herzog:
But he tried to protect the bears, didn't he? Sven Haakanson Jr. - Alutiiq Museum Director:
I think he did more damage to the bears... when you habituate bears to humans, they think all humans are safe... If I look at it from my culture, Timothy Treadwell crossed a boundary that we have lived with for 4,000 years
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He tried to act like a bear and for us
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on the island you don't do that
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You don't invade on their territory
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when you're in their territory you know you're there
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and when you're nearby
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you make sure that they know you're around
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you know for him to act like a bear the way
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he did would be
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I don't know to me it was the ultimate of disrespecting the bear and the
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what the bear represents
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But he tried to protect the bears didn't he
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I think he did more damage to the bears than he did
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because when you habituate bears to humans
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they think all humans are safe
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Where I grew up the bears avoid us and we avoid them
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They're not habituated to us
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If I look at it from my culture
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Timothy Treadwell crossed a boundary that we have lived with for
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7 000 years
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Movie Summary
A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.
