Timothy Treadwell ‘Death’ Audio
July 3rd, 2009 - 6:28 pm ICT by GD ( 17 comments )
The tragic death of environmentalist documentary filmmaker Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard, has come in the news once more, years after their death in 2003. It seems that an audio of the fatal encounter between the couple and a pair of grizzly bears, had survived the onslaught, that had killed Timothy and Amie.
Jewel Pavolak, a friend of Timothy, has in her possession an audio tape of the final moments of the couple’s life. However, Pavolak has no plans of releasing the exclusive audio tape.
Timothy Treadwell, a grizzly bears enthusiast, had been amidst the grizzly bears in the Katmai National Park in Alaska for well over 13 seasons. He had lived among the bears in the park for documenting his observations and filming their lives. However, at the end of the 13th season in October of 2003, while Timothy and Amie were visiting the national park, they were attacked by one or most possibly two (we will never know for sure) bears at their campsite. In the encounter with the wild beats, the two were killed and partially devoured.
It was reported that the Katmai National Park rangers had shot down the male grizzly bear (that weighed 450 kg) which was supposed to have been responsible for the twin deaths. It was a very unfortunate incident, going by the fact that Timothy used to live among the bears like they were his house pets. He had once told bear scientists that he welcomed ‘death by bear’, in fact considering it an honor to be killed and eaten by one. Seems he almost got his wish fulfilled.
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September 5th, 2009 at 6:43 am
You’re an insult to anything that Timothy Treadwell believed in. It’s apparent that you’re below understanding anything that humanitarians and hard working animal enthusiasts believe in.
Enjoy the rest of your mentally delayed days.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
While Timothy may have very well been a good man, and may have had the best of intentions. He was only making things harder on the bears that he claimed to be protecting. By trying so hard to get the bears to accept him into their everyday lives, in fact he was desensitizing them to humans. His goal was to stop hunters from killing the bears on the reserve, but in fact he made the bears more likely to approach a potential hunter rather than run or protect themselves. He took away their fear of humans in a way dooming them.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:54 am
iam not an animal activist but you make me sick. t.t. was an extra-ordinary man and for you to exploit him and to make his story “gross” shame on you-i hope someday someone writes the same about you-THREE-FOLD…..
March 17th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Everyone should look up to this guy. It’s a wonder why he is more happy in the wildness then in snob nosed society. Atleast he died doing something he loved and when the world can’t except him “a grizzley would” Just amazing creatures and I hope his documentary lives on for years to show how one person can affect so many others. R.I.P T.T and amie
April 13th, 2010 at 4:21 am
While I admire Timothy Treadwells intent and his dedication to his cause I am also realistic. I understand the all encompassing love he preached, I too love all life, but at the same time I also understand and accept the brutal and ferocious side of it. Treadwell denied that as you can see clearly in his footage, he expected his love to be reciprocated by Nature. But out there in the bush there is only one law as Jack London so elegantly expressed it.. Eat or be eaten, kill or be killed. The bears didn’t love him, trust him or “bond” with him.. they simply became accustomed to his presence. Not only did this put the bears in danger of approaching other humans who would kill them either in defense or sport, it also put innocent people at risk of being killed by the bears who learned not to fear mankind. Part of living successfully within Nature is developing a healthy fear and respect of it’s predators who have no concept of human life as being any more or less valuable than their own. It is purely a human folly to assign greater or lesser values to living things, out in the bush, meat is meat and survival is a deadly game that only the opportunistic and aggressive win. We cannot forget that in order to survive we must not only harbor respect and fear of our fellow predators, we must also instill in them a fear and respect of us.. otherwise we are helpless against being viewed as easy prey. Treadwell taught the bears not to fear him and that ultimately led to his death. Despite his dedication to protect bears and gain attention and support, he ultimately harmed the cause by portraying environmental activists as unwise to the ways of the woods. Silly cityslickers who get themselves killed out of ignorance.. Nobody with any woods sense can ever take him seriously, his attitude was anathema to the cruel realities of Nature. We have a duty to protect our environment and wildlife, but we also have a duty to protect our place in Nature as feared and ferocious predators in our own right. Nature has no use for those who seek to circumvent her cruel survival tests.. You either play along or die. You can’t remove yourself from it, you can’t wish it away or dream it away. Life is cruel because it has to be in order to survive.. if you really want to connect with Nature then you have to learn how to defend yourself against other life, because that is the way of the wild. Yes bears are beautiful, amazing creatures who should be protected from extinction and exploitation, but they are also wild, merciless predators who look upon us as prey unless we teach them otherwise by example. We fear bears for good reason, they have shown us what they can and will do to survive, every animal in the woods knows that weakness means death, and that bluffs are no good, because when it comes down to it, you have to prove you can defend yourself against anything Nature throws at you, or you will die. Treadwell denied this simple fact and chose not to establish his defenses, he bluffed and lost. A sad and needless tragedy resulted.
April 20th, 2010 at 12:17 am
He who plays with fire long enough will eventually get burned.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:18 pm
great end for a loser
…poor amie
August 21st, 2010 at 10:06 am
White people… Always trying to defy the laws of natural balance… I agree with KC completely. I can respect his intentions, but basically Timothy Treadwell was an idiot who got himself and his girlfriend killed in the end by not respecting the natural environment he was in and foolishly thinking that he was above the laws of nature (not part of the food chain).
His work was good and to be admired for it`s incite an intention. But to blindly and blatantly walk up to mother nature and say “I own you and your rules don`t apply to me” is stupid.
I see this stuff all the time, repeatedly on TV and it`s always white people who are doing stuff like this. Why is that?
Other cultures and races all seem to be able to develop a healthyt bond with nature and a healthy respect for it in most cases. But white people and Europeans seem to always try to bend, change and buck the natural rules — as if they are trying to prove something to themselves. Sometimes things work out (that`s why we have airplanes now) but most of the time things don`t.
You`d never hear of a black guy, Chinese guy, Indian guy or some other race doing something like this unless they were raised around it or it was part of their culture or religion). That`s because we have a natural instinctive respect for nature. A flock of birds suddenly flies south for no reason, were already on the alert to follow them… White people instinctively want to head the other way and “find out what it is” and most of the time they wind up in over their heads or DEAD, like this guy.
White people have no common sense at all when it comes to stuff like this and we waste a lot of time, effort, and tax dollars in rescue efforts or trying to locate idiots who just gave mother nature the finger and tried to play by their own foolish rules.
It`s hard to have sympathy for someone like that because normal people with common sense know better and can already predict the outcome. That`s why we don`t do crazy stuff like live with bears, swim with sharks, skydive into volcanoes, or go wind surfing during a hurricane…
I love bears, sharks and animals too - but that doesn`t mean I`m going to chill out in the middle of a field with them and not carry any protection like a gun or pepper spray - why? because that would be STUPID, they`re bigger, stronger and faster than I am and if they get hungry all they`re gonna see is MEAT. Normal people know this. Timothy knew it too. He just decided to “play god of the bears” and thought that his love for them would somehow make them subject to his own rules instead of the ones mother nature had laid out… Like a said. Stupid.
I don`t feel sorry for Tim because this was pre-ordained for him. But I feel bad for his gf who tried to stick with him and support him even though she probably knew something bad was going to happen to him because of his ignorance, stupidity and pride…
Help wildlife, protect them, do what you can but RESPECT THE RULES because they`re there for a reason.
November 5th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
bru haha
November 17th, 2010 at 7:55 am
This is just a tragic story of a dude who couldn’t cope in the real world, so he removed himself from it and went to kick it with bears in Alaska searching for acceptance. He attempted to build himself up as some altruistic bear activist, but I think the guy was just hurting a lot and (as Aimee was recorded to have said in his diary) was ‘hell-bent on self-destruction.’ This is probably due to his personal failures and knock backs, which drove him to this extreme reaction, and subsequent addiction to approval by other activists and would-be activists. I think the lesson here is that no matter how bad you think your world is, its important to keep perspective on the good things, remove negative influences from your life and replace them with positive ones… otherwise you might end up getting eaten.
November 17th, 2010 at 8:00 am
…although the fact that this discussion on the audio tape of his death has been placed under the ‘entertainment’ section of this site, does make for a good argument on his negative view of society.
November 22nd, 2010 at 4:11 am
i feel horrable about what happend to amie she loved a man whos obbsessions killed him and her timothy tredwell did vary little good for his cause he was not a wildlife expert by anymeans yet claimd to with every breath he could muster timothy simply tempted fate and pushed his luck and as a result died and the worst thing about it is his obbsessions killed someone else too to say that he was nuts is an understatment
December 25th, 2010 at 11:10 am
CommonSense, how can you be so ignorant and stereotypical? I assume, though I may be wrong, that your basis for this ridiculous analysis is Timothy Treadwell, Chris McCandless, and maybe a couple other highly publicized people who abandoned bourgeois society to venture into the wilderness. Are you really saying that just because a few highly determined and existential white guys went into the forest to give “mother nature the finger” that it’s only white people who make such journeys?
January 4th, 2011 at 3:50 am
“Stupid is as stupid does”.
January 4th, 2011 at 1:45 pm
I am with Common Sense..I am a white male..And you don’t see Black people bunge jumping, swimming with sharks,serial killers, etc. This guy was a NUT..You can’t be friends with a BEAR or any other wild animal..People shouldn’t bother Bears or Sharks, or any other animal that is BIGGER,STRONGER and A KILLING MACHINE..Leave them alone, The guy was nuts, apparently his girlfriend was too..I hate it because they are dead..Somebody somewhere lost a son, a brother, a daughter and a sister..But you got to realize..THESE ARE KILLING MACHINES..DO NOT INVADE THEIR SPACE..Treadwell did and look what happened…Sad, but you don’t FOOL WITH MOTHER NATURE!
March 30th, 2011 at 6:10 am
Rest in peace, T.T. You were one of a kind.
May 17th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Timothy Treadwell is stupid and he got what he deserved, what was he thinking that he was in Care-A-Lot with the Care Bears?! Also, he puts Amie in danger. What A Retard! Bears look after themselves, same as Wolves! in a time of EXTREME HUNGER if they can’t find anything else to eat and a human is close by “Your Food!”… but anyways, if I was out somewhere and if a bear charged me because it was hungry lets just say I don’t care who says what The Bear is Gonna Get It’s Head Blown Off! end of story…
R.I.P. Amie