Wildlife is wonderful, but I can do without encounters like these:
There's voluminous evidence showing that using cell phones to film dangerous situations alter the function of brain cells normally used in more evolutionarily conducive manner for which they evolved.
Mason, that was a sentence that renders the whole place worth the price of admission... Well said.Now that's a colorful sentence.
Brown bear, same species as grizzly.Now that's a colorful sentence.
Speaking of color, is that a black or brown bear? It looks sort of dark brown to me.
I was fly fishing at dusk in a ravine. It was a summer evening where the fog on a tail water (cold from the reservoir upstream) was thick. I saw what looked like a beaver swimming in the pool below me. It turned out to be a black bear swimming. It proceeded to walk out, shake like a dog, and head up the only steep trail to the road above. After what I felt like was enough time, I made my way up in the dark singing Led Zeppelin tunes loudly. I haven’t forgotten a flashlight in my fishing pack since.
Bob
Thank you Sweetfancymoses for the chuckle!!!Brown and black bears don't seem to play well together. It appears the brown pelage of the black bear could be a survival strategy.
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black, browns have a pronounced shoulder humpNow that's a colorful sentence.
Speaking of color, is that a black or brown bear? It looks sort of dark brown to me.
nope, it's a black, there's no shoulder hump, and brown bear ears are smaller, furrier, and mounted lower on the head.North America now has only 3 kinds of bears.
Ursus americana. Black bears.
Ursus arctos. All grizzly, brown bears, Barren Grounds grizzly, coastal brown bears, etc.
Ursus maritimus. Polar bears.
The bear in the video is U arctos.
That looks like a brown bear to me. Among other things, it looks like it has a more pronounced forehead than a black bear would.Now that's a colorful sentence.
Speaking of color, is that a black or brown bear? It looks sort of dark brown to me.
That's actually not a stalk--rather it's a defensive behavior protecting its cub from the person (cub is visible at the immediate start of the vid). The widespread forelimbs and the slaps pretty much gives it away--bears do the same thing when showing defensive behavior. I'd guess the retreat is due to the adult moving the person sufficiently far away from the cub that it felt that the cub was not in danger.Cougar stalks phone videoing hiker for six minutes. What causes the retreat?
No, it's definitely a brown bear. Face is different, ears are smaller than black, and the hump is somewhat obscured by the animal running, but it's there. I've seen so many brown and black bears, both in the wild and photos (ex-bear manager for 20 years) that for me there's almost a Gestalt in distinguishing between the two.black, browns have a pronounced shoulder hump
nope, it's a black, there's no shoulder hump, and brown bear ears are smaller, furrier, and mounted lower on the head.