Visiting a national park is a great way to enjoy the majesty of nature and have a fun, relaxing time. There are just a few things to keep in mind to make sure that your vacation stays fun and relaxing, however — one of which is that you probably shouldn’t interact with any bears. Especially […]
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Man learns the hard way why you never, ever pet bear cubs
A man has shared a video online showing exactly why you never try to pet wild animals, particularly bears. The US National Park Service advises visitors that the safest place to watch wildlife is from within a car, but that only applies if you also use common sense. The clip (which you can see below) […]
Brave husband successfully fights off bear attacking 73-year-old wife in park
An elderly woman was hospitalised after she was attacked by a bear. The 73-year-old woman was with her husband and a dog in the Flathead National Forest, west of Glacier National Park and just south of the US-Canadian border on Sunday afternoon, when a bear emerged from thick brush and attacked her, Montana wildlife officials […]
‘Like butter for bears’: the grizzlies who dine on 40,000 moths a day
The barren mountain slopes of north-west Wyoming might seem like inhospitable territory for a hungry grizzly bear. Big game animals are few and far between, and blueberries don’t grow from these rocky hillsides, high above the treeline. But for a couple of months each summer, this stark landscape becomes a high-calorie buffet for hundreds of […]
Recent Research Shows That Bears Could be the Smartest Animals
Bears are known for their strength, solitude, and adaptability, but recent research has uncovered a surprising dimension to their capabilities: tool use, according to reporting done by Newsweek. One of the most remarkable findings in this regard is a polar bear using a block of ice to hunt seals—an action that typically remains the domain […]
Zoos Welcome ‘Paddington Bears’ for Breeding Programs to Help Save Species From Extinction
Two zoos in the US and UK have welcomed their very own ‘Paddington Bear’ as part of a special breeding program to help save the rare Andean species from extinction. The Chester Zoo in England released a new video of a ten-year-old Andean bear named Oberon that arrived as a ‘perfect match’ for the zoo’s […]
Mother bear killed after charging 2 boys in Colorado; tranquilized cub also dies
Colorado wildlife authorities said that a mother bear and her cub were killed after she charged two young boys in Colorado Springs. On Oct. 4, Colorado Parks and Wildlife responded to a call about an aggressive sow that charged at two boys, ages 12 and 13, causing one of them to run into a tree […]
Endangered Formosan black bears caught in Taiwanese ‘snaring crisis’ (commentary)
In 2020 a report titled “Wildlife-snaring crisis in Asian Forests” was published by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), estimating that over 12 million snares engulf Indochinese forests (Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) alone, mostly in ‘protected’ areas. By contrast, it is difficult to know how many snares blanket Taiwan’s mountainous forests, but it is safe […]