A CANADIAN woman who was attacked by a bear in the middle of the night at a busy United States campground was bitten on her arm and leg before she instinctively" target="_blank" title="ad.本能地">instinctively played dead so the animal would leave her alone, she said yesterday.

At least one bear rampaged through the campground near Yellowstone National Park in Montana in the middle of the night on Wednesday, killing one man and injuring Deb Freele of Ontario and another man.

Appearing on the network morning talk shows from a Wyoming hospital, Freele said she woke up just before the bear bit her arm. "I screamed, he bit harder, I screamed harder, he continued to bite," she said.

Her survival instinct kicked in, and she realized that the screaming wasn't working. "I told myself, play dead," she said. "I went totally limp. As soon as I went limp, I could feel his jaws get loose and then he let me go."

She said the bear was silent.

"I felt like he was hunting me."

A frequent camper, Freele said that she was already prepared to go camping again hours after the attack, though she acknowledged that it will take time to recover both physically and emotionally. She suffered severe lacerations and crushed bones from bites on her arms.

The male survivor suffered puncture wounds on his calf. The nature of the dead victim's wounds were not revealed. Names and ages of the male victims had not been released.

The bear attack was the most brazen in the Yellowstone area since the 1980s, wildlife officials said. Wildlife officials still were trying to capture the bear - or bears - late on Wednesday with five baited traps. The campground was closed.

In 2008 at the same campground, a grizzly bear bit and injured a man sleeping in a tent. A young adult femalegrizzly was captured in a trap four days later and taken to a bear research center in Washington state.

The latest attack had residents and visitors to this national park satellitecommunity on edge. Many were carrying bear spray - a pepper-based deterrent more commonly seen in Yellowstone's backcountry than on the streets of Cooke City.

About 600 grizzly bears and hundreds of less-aggressive black bears live in the Yellowstone area.

• canadian [kə´neidiən] a.加拿大的n.加拿大人 (初中英语单词)
• yesterday [´jestədi] n.&ad.昨天；前不久 (初中英语单词)
• wednesday [´wenzdi] n.星期三 (初中英语单词)
• instinct [´instiŋkt] n.本能；直觉；天资 (初中英语单词)
• working [´wə:kiŋ] a.工人的；劳动的 (初中英语单词)
• frequent [´fri:kwənt] a.常见的，频繁的 (初中英语单词)
• severe [si´viə] a.严厉的；苛刻的 (初中英语单词)
• capture [´kæptʃə] vt.&n.捕获；俘获；夺取 (初中英语单词)
• sleeping [´sli:piŋ] n.&a.睡着(的) (初中英语单词)
• female [´fi:meil] a.女(性)的 n.女人 (初中英语单词)
• research [ri´sə:tʃ] n.&vi.调查；探究；研究 (初中英语单词)
• grizzly [´grizli] a.灰(白)色的，灰白的 (高中英语单词)
• community [kə´mju:niti] n.团体；社区；公众 (高中英语单词)
• commonly [´kɔmənli] ad.一般地；通常 (高中英语单词)
• bitten [´bitn] bite的过去分词 (英语四级单词)
• instinctively [in´stiŋktivli] ad.本能地 (英语四级单词)
• yellowstone [´jeləustəun] n.黄石公园 (英语四级单词)
• montana [mɔn´tænə] n.蒙大拿 (英语四级单词)
• network [´netwə:k] n.网状物 vt.联播 (英语四级单词)
• wyoming [wai´əumiŋ] n.怀俄明(州) (英语四级单词)
• totally [´təutəli] ad.统统，完全 (英语四级单词)
• physically [´fizikəli] ad.按照自然规律 (英语四级单词)
• brazen [´breizən] a.黄铜制的；无耻的 (英语四级单词)
• trying [´traiiŋ] a.难堪的；费劲的 (英语四级单词)
• ontario [ɔn´tɛəriəu] n.安大略湖 (英语六级单词)
• hunting [´hʌntiŋ] n.打猎 (英语六级单词)
• survivor [sə´vaivə] n.未死的人；残存者 (英语六级单词)
• satellite [´sætəlait] n.(人造)卫星；随从 (英语六级单词)