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Robert Markel and his dog were found mauled to death on May 5, 2025, in a black bear attack in rural Jerome in Collier County ...
Bears sent to University of Florida for examination after 89-year-old Robert Markel of Jerome, his dog killed during attack.
The attack occurred in a rural area east of Naples, just south of Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area, authorities said.
The last documented black bear attack in Collier County happened Jan. 9, 2018, when a black bear attacked a man in his North ...
After what sounded like gunfire, FWC officials emerged from the woods with a dead bear, possibly connected to the May 5 ...
An 89-year-old man and his dog were killed in Collier County in Florida's first fatal bear attack. How common are attacks in Florida, Pensacola.
The incident was reported in the area of State Road 29 and U.S. 41, just south of the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area.
A man and dog were killed in a black bear attack May 5, 2025 in Collier County, Florida. It's the second bear attack this ...
After Robert Markel's daughter called to report a bear had just killed her father's dog, officials found Markel's body yards ...
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) officials have shot and killed three black bears overnight in the ...
Robert Markel and his dog were killed by a black bear in Florida’s first fatal attack. FWC is set to vote on opening a bear ...
A man and his dog were killed in a suspected black bear attack in rural southwest Florida, prompting a search for the animal ...