I grew up in BC and had plenty of encounters with bears. It was never a big concern...
You Canadians were always good about coexisting with the wildlife. :lol:
I grew up in BC and had plenty of encounters with bears. It was never a big concern...
You Canadians were always good about coexisting with the wildlife. :lol:
But does he close the cover when he is finished?
I've got two questions about the following video;
1) Why didn't he yield the trail to the mom & cubs and,
2) how big and how close was the bear behind her that she seemed so concerned about?
Mrwesson,
Bear mace/spray I’ve heard could likely kill a person. Not hard to believe considering it’s formulated to immobilize a 1200lb bear almost entirely covered w thick hair.
Maybe they were friends by then. Mum and the kids seem hurrying from what was behind them rather than chasing the film maker.So first the guy is getting freaked out by the bears coming down the path towards him and not going somewhere else, then later he is filming them from just as close (or closer), but that's ok.
Very nice, thank you for letting us know it's working.I don't want to deal with the BS at the Canadian Boarder
There were nine of us and a pile of camera equipment in the 19 foot inflatable. We were watching a mother and two cubs along the shore. The tide was coming in so we allowed the inflatable to nudge against a tree trunk that had fallen into the water. We had been watching and photographing the bears for a few minutes when the cubs decided we were interesting. They wandered over and climbed up on our log.
For the next thirty minutes, they played with each other, looked at us, and napped on the log. All within arms reach of all of us. We held our breath, moved slowly and quietly, and took many photographs. All while mom munched on sedge grass about 30 yards away. Eventually, the cubs got bored and swan over to mom. She led them up another tree and into the woods.
Later in the afternoon, we spotted a male and female on one of the alluvial fans and motored over near the shore. The bears had recently emerged from hibernation and the males were a bit “randy.” Seeing us near the shore, the male retreated toward the tree line. The female came over to us, laid down in the grass about 20 feet away and proceeded to roll around and nap. The male kept standing and looking at us from a distance. The female used us to keep the male away and seemed to enjoy being left alone for a little while.
Murray, go the Khutzeymateen. Near Prince Rupert. Less than 200 people are allowed to see the bears there each year and no one is allowed to go ashore. No civilization nearby. Bears everywhere. Photography opportunities are spectacular.
Ocean Light II Adventures: Our Trips: Grizzlies of the Khutzeymateen
I would have the nerves to stay that close to the cubs without an experienced bear guide being there though...
We went with the Oceanlight folks. The guide had been doing this over 20 years there. And once we had drifted up to the log, and the cubs came to visit, we were pretty much committed to staying there until they left.
Living in a high rise in downtown Vancouver doesn't count. Sorry!I grew up in BC and had plenty of encounters with bears. It was never a big concern.
Further to this...
US Fish and Wildlife service fact sheet:
https://above.nasa.gov/safety/documents/Bear/bearspray_vs_bullets.pdf
And...
https://bearwise.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/efficacy-of-bear-spray-smith-et-al.-2010.pdf
And....
https://www.academia.edu/23585908/Efficacy_of_firearms_for_bear_deterrence_in_Alaska
Jim
Probably bears of a different kind roam there.Living in a high rise in downtown Vancouver doesn't count...
Further to this...
US Fish and Wildlife service fact sheet:
https://above.nasa.gov/safety/documents/Bear/bearspray_vs_bullets.pdf
The question is not one of marksmanship or clear thinking in the face of a growling bear, for even a skilled marksman with steady nerves may have a slim chance of deterring a bear attack with a gun. Law enforcement agents for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have experience that supports this reality -- based on their investigations of human-bear encounters since 1992, persons encountering grizzlies and defending themselves with firearms suffer injury about 50% of the time. During the same period, persons defending themselves with pepper spray escaped injury most of the time, and those that were injured experienced shorter duration attacks and less severe injuries. Canadian bear biologist Dr. Stephen Herrero reached similar conclusions based on his own research -- a person’s chance of incurring serious injury from a charging grizzly doubles when bullets are fired versus when bear spray is used.