Up until that night, there had been NO recorded deaths from bears in the national park. It's because of the events of that ...

JACKSON, Wyo. — “There has never been a bear in history that has beaten the odds like 399,” her quasi-official photographer, Thomas D. Mangelsen, said of the world-famous grizzly in February.

Between 2009 and 2023, 49 grizzly bears were killed by vehicles in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, per the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That equates to an average of 3.3 bears per year.