Grizzly put down after mauling man at wildlife casting agency

A 24-year-old man was mauled to death while cleaning a grizzly bear enclosure at a wildlife casting agency in south-west Montana.

The man was mauled by one or all of the captive-bred grizzly bears at the Animals of Montana facility north of Bozeman, Sheriff Brian Gootkin said.

Chuck Watson, attorney for Animals of Montana’s owner, Troy Hyde, told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle the grizzly had to be put down to recover the victim.