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As is wise when attacked by a sow grizzly -- although never when attacked by a black bear -- Berkey played dead, and the bear retreated. She attacked again when he first tried to get up, but he resumed making like a dead bicyclist until he was sure the bears were out of the area. He then got up and rode to his job at the Alaska Native Medical Center.