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) […]
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‘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 […]
Petition: Urge Alaska to Adopt Ethical Wildlife Management Practices
The Alaska Board of Game has extended it’s predator control program, resulting in the murder of numerous bears and wolves — 94 brown bears, five black bears, and five wolves — in just May and June. These actions, meant to boost caribou calf survival, lack scientific evidence and severely disrupt Alaska’s ecosystems by slaughtering innocent […]
Harrowing last text sent by couple mauled to death by huge bear as final moments revealed
A harrowing final message sent by a couple just moments before they were mauled to death by a grizzly bear has been revealed by devastated family members. In their final moments, Doug Inglis and Jenny Gusse, both 62, emptied an entire bottle of bear spray as they were mauled by the massive bear while out […]