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A large male grizzly bear is showing everyone who’s boss in Alberta’s mountain parks.

Earlier this month, officials closed the Sundance Canyon area in Banff National Park after a group of hikers came upon a bear known as No. 122 feeding on a carcass. They reopened the trail late Tuesday after he moved on.

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During the investigation into the incident, officials determined the carcass was a small black bear.

“It had been completely consumed,” said Steve Michel, a human wildlife conflict specialist with Banff National Park. “There was nothing remaining other than a skull, a hide, the four paws and some bones.”

It’s believed it was a predatory attack on the black bear.

“There were indications the black bear was foraging on the trail at the time,” he said. “It looks like that black bear just happened to find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when a very large grizzly bear came by.”

Michel said he didn’t expect there was much of a fight.