No, it doesn't. I heard the full story on APR and they said that the female guide was on one end of the 22 tourists they were guiding - she had no bear spray or anything. The male guide was on the other end of the 22 tourists and he had bear spray. When the sow attacked, he ran up through the tourists, who took off, and sprayed the sow with bear spray. When he did this, he got very minor injuries and the sow took off. Bear spray works.