AILING BEAR CORNERED IN TOWN, KILLED.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - A bear captured in an artificial waterfall waterfall, a sudden unsupported drop in a stream. It is formed when the stream course is interrupted as when a stream passes over a layer of harder rock—often igneous—to an area of softer and therefore more easily eroded rock; the edge of a cliff or in a gated west Palmdale neighborhood was euthanized after wardens discovered its eyes were infected in·fect tr.v. in·fect·ed, in·fect·ing, in·fects 1. To contaminate with a pathogenic microorganism or agent. 2. To communicate a pathogen or disease to. 3. To invade and produce infection in. with a parasitic par·a·sit·ic or par·a·sit·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a parasite. 2. Caused by a parasite. Parasitic Of, or relating to a parasite. worm, officials said Friday. The 225-pound black bear had been spotted going into a back yard near 60th Street West and Avenue M-8 around 7 a.m. Thursday, and sheriff's deputies and county animal control officers notified state game wardens. ``We have no idea what it was doing in the area, in the desert like that,'' state Department of Fish and Game spokesman Steve Martarano said. ``The thinking is it was probably half blind and just getting along on sense of smell.'' Game wardens shot the bear, a mature female at least 10 years old, with two tranquilizer darts A tranquilizer dart is a dart-like projectile containing a sedative which is injected into the target as if through a needle or syringe when the dart strikes the target. Tranquilizer darts are fired from a capture gun or a crossbow at wild animals in order to sedate them for the as it sat in a rock waterfall structure connected to a swimming pool. The bear showed no reaction when the wardens approached, which is a sign that something may have been physically wrong with it, Martarano said. After the bear was tranquilized, wardens found that its eyes were crusted over, a symptom of a parasitic worm that infects mature bears' eye sockets eye socket n. See orbital cavity. and leads to blindness, Martarano said. Rather than release an ill bear back into the wild, wardens euthanized it, he said. The condition is not treatable, he added. Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com |
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