I wonder if she mistook the bears head for something else?

[Alex]

An Alaska woman was given the fright of her life while visiting an outdoor toilet in the wilderness as she was attacked by a bear - from below.

"I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down," Shannon Stevens told The Associated Press.

"I jumped up and I screamed when it happened."

Once back inside her tent, Shannon dealt with the injury using a first aid kit.

"It was bleeding, but it wasn't super bad," Shannon said.

Alaska Department of Fish and Game Wildlife Management Biologist Carl Koch suspects it was a black bear based upon photos of the tracks he saw.