Officials at Yellowstone National Park killed an adult female grizzly bear on Thursday after positively identifying it as the animal that fatally mauled a hiker last week, the Associated Press reports.

“An important fact in the decision to euthanize the bear was that a significant portion of the body was consumed and cached with the intent to return for further feeding,” said the National Parks Service in a statement. “Normal defensive attacks by female bears defending their young do not involve consumption of the victim’s body.”

Officials say they used DNA analysis of hair samples to confirm that the captured bear attacked 63-year-old Lance Crosby, whose “partially consumed” body was discovered by a park ranger on Friday. From NPS.gov:

Additional support beyond the DNA evidence that this female was the bear involved in the attack include: the bear and cubs were at the attack site when Crosby’s body was found by park rangers; bear tracks of a female with cubs were found at Crosby’s body; this bear was captured at the fatality site within 24 hours of the body being found; and canine puncture wounds inflicted on the victim are consistent with the bite size of the female captured at the site.

According to park spokesperson Amy Bartlett, the bear was quickly euthanized after being heavily sedated and shot in the skull with a captive bolt pistol.

“If a bear consumes an individual, it’s not allowed to remain in the population,” Bartlett told the AP. “It’s not a risk we’re willing to take.”

Bartlett says the bear’s two cubs, which also fed on the body, are in the process of being transferred to a zoo. If no zoo had been willing to take them cubs, she says they too would have likely been destroyed.

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