COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 27 (UPI) -- Jack Hanna, the director emeritus of Ohio's Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said he used pepper spray to fend off a charging grizzly bear on a Montana hiking trail.
Hanna said he was hiking late Saturday with his wife, Suzi, on a narrow cliff trail in Glacier National Park with three other hikers close by when they noticed a mother grizzly and her two cubs walking toward them in the opposite direction, The Columbus Dispatch reported Tuesday.
"We thought of letting them go by, but the trail was cut into the rock and was too narrow," Hanna said. "So I said: 'Everybody talk loud and we'll back up until we can get off the trail'".
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