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Black Bears

ramonmercado said:
Bears raid homeless campsite.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska wildlife officials have killed four black bears in a campground recently reserved for people in Anchorage who are homeless after the city’s largest shelter was closed. Employees from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday killed a sow and her two cubs and another adult bear that was acting separately, stealing food from tents inside Centennial Park, which is managed by the city, officials said.

Anchorage is Alaska’s biggest city, with nearly 300,000 residents, but it is also bear country. The park is located in east Anchorage, nestled between Chugach State Park and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, which state wildlife officials describe as a vast bear habitat.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/4-bears-killed-anchorage_n_62cb6933e4b02e0ac915addc
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What a mess! This is a pathetic situation for both homeless people and bears. I can say with all confidence that if this happened to tourists during tourist season the story would be very different. :mad:
 
This so called, "bear expert" is lucky to be alive. Everyone with a brain knows there is nothing more dangerous that getting between a mother bear and her cubs.

Bear Gives a Warning Bite | BBC Earth​

 
michael59 said:
This so called, "bear expert" is lucky to be alive. Everyone with a brain knows there is nothing more dangerous that getting between a mother bear and her cubs.

Bear Gives a Warning Bite | BBC Earth​

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That was just a 'training' bite - used by mama bears for telling off their cubs. Very lucky that the bear knows him.
This man is a soft idiot, playing with fire.
 
michael59 said:
This so called, "bear expert" is lucky to be alive. Everyone with a brain knows there is nothing more dangerous that getting between a mother bear and her cubs.
Mythopoeika said:
That was just a 'training' bite - used by mama bears for telling off their cubs. Very lucky that the bear knows him.
This man is a soft idiot, playing with fire.
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He’s not a ‘so called bear expert’, or a ‘soft idiot’, he’s wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan. This is an excerpt from a longer 3 part BBC programme in which he follows & films the mother bear & cub after accompanying an actual Canadian bear expert named Lyn something who’s been studying black bears for years.

Accompanying Lyn for a few weeks gets the bears used to him so he can get close. He talks to them so they get to know his voice. The bears fairly soon accept him as non-threatening so he can film.

It’s a fascinating programme over 3 parts. The bears have to survive hunting season & if the mother is shot, the cub won’t survive. He follows the bears for a lengthy period.

At one point they both vanish. After some concern they’ve both died & searching high & low, the cub is eventually found alive & up a tree, starving. No sign of the mother.

Lyn decides to go against his normal m.o. of not interfering, & feeds the cub after coaxing it down. Eventually the mother turns up & reunites with the cub.

It’s great wildlife film-making, quite a heartwarming story, & shows black bears to be not that aggressive.
 
If you go down to the bins today ... Vid at link.

Watch: Hiding bear leaps from bin at US school​

Principal James Marsh got a surprise when a bear leapt from a rubbish dumpster he was standing next to at Zela Elementary School, West Virginia. Both ran away, with the bear scuttling off into a wooded area.

In a Facebook post, the Nicholas County Board of Education wrote: "Who says principals don't deserve hazard pay????"

The principal told local broadcaster WSAZ: "It let out a pretty loud roar... I think both of us were equally surprised. The students at the school, they wanted to see it and I showed it to all of them - they thought it was just hilarious."

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65455991
 
Black bear takes 60 cupcakes from US bakery, scaring staff
Animal charged at one worker before dragging container into parking lot amid a series of human encounters with bears in Connecticut

Associated Press
Sat 27 May 2023 04.18 BST
A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away.

Workers at Taste by Spellbound in the town of Avon were loading cakes into a van for delivery on Wednesday when the bear showed up. There are 1,000 to 1,200 black bears living in Connecticut, the state environmental agency says, with sightings last year in 158 of the state’s 169 towns and cities.

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The bakery’s owner, Miriam Stephens, wrote in an Instagram post that she heard employee Maureen Williams “screaming bloody murder” and yelling that there was a bear in the garage.

Williams told TV station WTNH that she shouted to scare the bear off but it retreated and came back three times.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...akes-60-cupcakes-from-us-bakery-scaring-staff
 
Watch out, the bears might be spying on you!
CT couple alleges state is illegally filming their property by attaching camera to wandering bear


A Connecticut couple alleges the state put a camera on a bear with the intention of illegally filming their property, and has filed an injunction to get the photographic evidence destroyed.

Mark and Carol Brault say the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection put a camera on a bear the agency knew frequents the couple’s 117-acre forested property in Hartland.

The couple's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Hartford, alleges a violation of their their 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable search of their property. DEEP is responsible for monitoring bear activity in the state and has increasingly been called in to remove problem animals.
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https://www.ctpost.com/connecticut/...ab4CFgKc7ycznl-40tw9770Y_KLQNiDx1HAUZK3QFDUz0
 
Bigphoot2 said:
Watch out, the bears might be spying on you!...
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I have to admit that the image accompanying this story on the DIY Photography website made me laugh out loud:

Bear spy.jpg
 

Colorado wildlife officer frees bear from inside a car​



Colorado wildlife officer frees bear from inside a carClose

According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials, bears know how to open car doors and they will if there is food inside.
This unlucky car owner had dog food in his unlocked vehicle in Evergreen, Colorado. The bear locked itself inside the car, until wildlife officials arrived.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-65828941
 
Black Bear Self IDs as Cuckoo.

A black bear has been caught napping in an unlikely spot: the nest of a bald eagle. Researchers came across the sleeping bear while surveying eagle nests on a military base in Alaska.

Black bears (Ursus americanus) are known to occasionally take advantage of eagles' architectural work — and these invasions spell trouble for the birds and their young, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

"In the past, a few eagle nests have been raided by black bears with predictably bad results for the nesting eagles," FWS staff wrote in a Facebook post on July 21, adding that these incidents often result in young birds going missing.

Bears occasionally eat eagles' eggs and nestlings, said Stephen B. Lewis, a FWS wildlife biologist who led the nest surveys on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) military base in southern Alaska. "It's hard to say how much bears invade eagle nests because we don't (can't) spend that much time monitoring to see it happen or have cameras to witness it," Lewis told Live Science in an email.

https://www.livescience.com/animals...ald-eagles-giant-nest-on-alaska-military-base
 
ramonmercado said:
Black Bear Self IDs as Cuckoo.

A black bear has been caught napping in an unlikely spot: the nest of a bald eagle. Researchers came across the sleeping bear while surveying eagle nests on a military base in Alaska.

Black bears (Ursus americanus) are known to occasionally take advantage of eagles' architectural work — and these invasions spell trouble for the birds and their young, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

"In the past, a few eagle nests have been raided by black bears with predictably bad results for the nesting eagles," FWS staff wrote in a Facebook post on July 21, adding that these incidents often result in young birds going missing.

Bears occasionally eat eagles' eggs and nestlings, said Stephen B. Lewis, a FWS wildlife biologist who led the nest surveys on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) military base in southern Alaska. "It's hard to say how much bears invade eagle nests because we don't (can't) spend that much time monitoring to see it happen or have cameras to witness it," Lewis told Live Science in an email.

https://www.livescience.com/animals...ald-eagles-giant-nest-on-alaska-military-base
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That's what I would call a very Eagle-Eyed Bear!
 
Just ursine about.

Black bear cools off in California swimming pool​

A bear has been spotted taking a dip in a swimming pool in the backyard of a house in California.

Extreme heat has hit parts of the US, including here, with temperatures breaking records across states.

Burbank Police Department posted footage on social media of the bear splashing around and escaping the heat, before it scaled over a nearby wall and climbed up a tree. It also shared safety tips for what to do if you see a bear.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66349101
 
Poor bear was shot dead.

A Montana couple got a late-night wake-up call from a barking dog alerting them that a black bear had broken into their living room before the man shot and killed the animal with a handgun.

The confrontation with the large beast happened in the rural community of Luther at the base of the rugged Beartooth Mountains, where Thomas Bolkcom and fiancee Seeley Oblander live with their two dogs.

After staying up late the night before – the couple were scheduled to fly that morning to Arizona for their stag and hen parties – they were woken up at about 3am by their dog Maizey barking furiously upstairs from the house’s main floor, Ms Oblander said.

Mr Bolkcom, 27, a commercial painter and elk hunter, went to investigate and tried to coax the dog downstairs when he turned around “and there’s this black bear standing in the living room five feet away,” Oblander said.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41198644.html
 
ramonmercado said:
Poor bear was shot dead.

A Montana couple got a late-night wake-up call from a barking dog alerting them that a black bear had broken into their living room before the man shot and killed the animal with a handgun.

The confrontation with the large beast happened in the rural community of Luther at the base of the rugged Beartooth Mountains, where Thomas Bolkcom and fiancee Seeley Oblander live with their two dogs.

After staying up late the night before – the couple were scheduled to fly that morning to Arizona for their stag and hen parties – they were woken up at about 3am by their dog Maizey barking furiously upstairs from the house’s main floor, Ms Oblander said.

Mr Bolkcom, 27, a commercial painter and elk hunter, went to investigate and tried to coax the dog downstairs when he turned around “and there’s this black bear standing in the living room five feet away,” Oblander said.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41198644.html
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“Poor” bear? It was a 250-300lb wild carnivore inside his home!

maximus otter
 
Bear invades The House Of Mouse.

A wild black bear managed to be the star of its own show on Monday at Walt Disney World in Florida.

The presence of the black bear in a tree in the Magic Kingdom delayed the opening of three lands on Monday morning — Frontierland, Liberty Square and Adventureland.

Staffers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission were at the park, attempting to capture and relocate the bear, Disney World said in a statement. The bear was eventually captured on Monday afternoon.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/w...ed-in-floridas-walt-disney-world-1528285.html
 
If it’s black fight back,
If it’s brown lay down,
if it’s white goodnight,
Sage advice on bear attack.
 
Druk said:
If it’s black fight back,
If it’s brown lay down,
if it’s white goodnight,
Sage advice on bear attack.
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And if you happen to be colour blind??? _ _ _
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I love watching videos of black bears roaming around neighbourhoods with their cubs.

They like getting into cars and bins for food.
 
If you go down to the woods today ...

Woman shields son from black bear eating birthday picnic in Mexico​

Silvia Macías was celebrating 15th birthday of son Santiago when bear appeared and gulped down tacos


A woman in Mexico shielded her son after a bear leaped on to a picnic table, inches from his face, and devoured the tacos and enchiladas meant for his birthday dinner.

Silvia Macías of Mexico City had travelled to the Chipinque Park on the outskirts of the northern city of Monterrey to celebrate the 15th birthday of her son, Santiago, who has Down’s syndrome.

Soon after they sat down to eat, the bear showed up and gulped down french fries, enchiladas, tacos and salsa. A video shot by her friend Angela Chapa shows Macías sitting stoically, inches from the bear’s mouth, holding Santiago and shielding his eyes with her hand. Macías kept her eyes downcast to avoid anything the bear might consider a challenge.

“The worst thing was that Santiago might get scared,” Macías said on Tuesday in an interview with the Associated Press. “Santiago is very afraid of animals … a cat or a dog, any animal scares him a lot.

“That’s why I covered his eyes, because I didn’t want him to see it and scream or run. I was afraid that if he got scared or screamed, or scared the bear, the bear would react.”

Macías said she and Chapa had thought about the possibility of a bear encounter – they are not unknown in the park, though usually the bears come out toward dawn or dusk, not midday – and they had come up with a plan.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...from-black-bear-eating-birthday-picnic-mexico
 
If it’s black fight back,
If it’s brown lay down,
If it’s white goodnight,
#heybear.
 
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