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Watch: Bear executes perfect takedown in clash with rival

A large black Bear is caught on video executing a perfect takedown in a clash with a rival bruin.

In martial arts, a takedown involves catching an opponent off-balance and swiftly bringing that person to the ground. Ideally, the takedown artist ends up on top in an advantageous position.

Apparently, this technique also comes in handy in a bear brawl.

The accompanying footage, captured Monday in rural Tennessee, shows a large black bear swiftly executing the takedown beginning at 4 seconds and maintaining its advantage for the remainder of the fight.

The battle lasts nearly 40 seconds before the vanquished bear regains its footing and runs off, seemingly uninjured.

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The footage was captured near Ely’s Mill by guests Billie Jo and Micah Campbell. It was shared Wednesday by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. The TWRA stated on Facebook:

“While it’s a little bit early for bears to engage in battle for dominance during breeding season, we believe it may have been a dispute over a food source considering the size of both animals.”

Trail-cam footage features the derrieres of some very large bears

A wildlife photographer in Canada’s Yukon Territory has compiled video footage that shows grizzly bears and black bears wandering away from his trail cameras.

“Bear butts!” David Troup, of Yukon Wildlife Cams, wrote this month on Facebook. “[The] 2021 compilation also offers a great size comparison between grizzlies and black bears, and even a blond black bear.”

The footage shows bear butts in varying degrees of motion as the animals explore the wilderness.

It’s worth noting that Troup’s page also features footage of bears traveling toward his cameras, including a large grizzly bear that is shown charging to within feet of a camera, revealing the bruin’s awesome power and enormous claws.

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In the “Bear butts” clip, Troup told For The Win Outdoors that the footage is from three cameras and that every bear is a different animal.

“The first two are very likely a male grizzly pursuing a female,” Troup said. “I’ve got these two on a pair of cameras pointing in opposite directions the trail – so a coming-and-going perspective, though I’ve only ever shared them separately.”

Troup places motion-sensor cameras at strategic location each season and posts footage to his page sporadically throughout each year.

Watch: Man wrestles bear in harrowing porch encounter

A Florida man was injured Wednesday while trying to protect his dogs from what he thought was a larger dog that had entered his porch, but turned out to be a bear.

A Florida man was injured Wednesday while trying to protect his dogs from what he thought was a larger dog, but turned out to be a bear.

The accompanying footage shows the bear breaching the porch entrance in an apparent attempt to catch the closest dog, and the man dropping to his knees and wrestling the animal back outside the porch doorway.

During the scuffle, the bear claws and bites the man, who appears stunned after he had hurriedly placed a bench at the doorway entrance as a barrier.

“Oh my god, I was just attacked by a bear!” he appears to scream in the footage, which is repeated in slow motion.

The video was shared Friday by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), which stated on Facebook that the man’s injuries were not life-threatening and that all the noise helped persuade the bear to leave.

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The harrowing incident occurred at the man’s Daytona Beach residence at about 7:30 p.m. The dogs were not injured.

The FWC stated in a news release that the agency is searching for the bear and that the animal will be euthanized if it’s captured “since it poses a threat to human safety.”

The FWC added that this was the second time within the past week that a bear had injured a Florida resident.

Two women wreak havoc on legal bear hunters; hunting dog injured

Three hunters return to their vehicle to discover two women in the act of vandalizing their truck, and things got heated from there.

Three Vermont hunters returning to their vehicle after an unsuccessful bear hunt found two women letting air out of the tires of the vehicle, and after an ensuing argument, one woman released her dog, which attacked and injured one of the hunting hounds.

The incident occurred in the 26,000-acre Groton State Forest near Noyes Pond on Oct. 9. After an investigation by the Vermont State Game Warden, the two women identified as Donna Babic and Betty Eastman were cited on Nov. 11 and on Nov. 22 they were found guilty in Caledonia Superior Court of interfering with hunters.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department announced on Tuesday that the two women were each fined $262 and lost their license privileges for fishing, hunting and trapping for a year.

Theodore Shumway and two companions were hunting black bear with hounds when a bear led the hounds onto private property before climbing a tree.

The hunters went onto the private land to retrieve the hounds and then left the bear in the tree. According to the outdoors site MeatEater, hunters are allowed to retrieve their hunting dogs from unenclosed private property even without permission to actively hunt the land.

“On returning to his truck with leashed hounds, Mr. Shumway encountered Donna Babic and Betty Eastman releasing air from the tires of his truck,” the VFWD stated. “Following an argument between the parties, one of the two women allowed a German shepherd out of their vehicle. The loose German shepherd attacked and injured one of the leashed hounds, which required veterinary care.

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“Vermont State Troopers responded to an emergency call from Mr. Shumway to defuse the situation.”

The investigation revealed that the hunters were acting lawfully; they were licensed and permitted to hunt bear. The game warden cited Babic and Eastman with violations of Title 10 VSA 4708, Interfering with Hunting, Fishing or Trapping.

“Vermonters don’t always agree on wildlife management, especially when it comes to big game,” said Colonel Jason Batchelder, Fish and Wildlife’s Chief Game Warden. “Even so, I would ask that Vermonters respect one another’s constitutional right to hunt. Intentionally interfering with legal hunters in any fashion will result in court action, especially in a potentially dangerous fashion as we saw in this case.”

Batchelder told MeatEater that the German shepherd’s attack on the leashed hound caused severe injuries to its head, legs and pelvis. The veterinary bill was “well in excess of $2,000.”

From MeatEater:

Babic told responding officers that she had intended to “make a statement” with her actions.

“I saw them come up through, and I knew they were illegally on the land, so we came up here,” Babic said in a recorded statement captured by an officer’s body camera. “We let a little air out of the tires. We wanted them to stay here because they were illegal. My underlying first thought would be that I’m sick and tired of bear dog hunting in the neighborhood, and that I knew they were illegal. I was trying to make a statement.”

Babic told the responding troopers and investigators with VFWD that she did not intend to release the German shepherd but accidentally let it out of Eastman’s back seat in the wake of the heated argument.

It was reported that neither of the women owned the private property in question.

Photos courtesy of Vermont Fish and Wildlife and Wikipedia Commons.

Warnings issued after bear knocks angler to ground

British Columbia authorities have issued a public safety warning after an angler was knocked to the ground by a black bear alongside a popular fishing creek.

The B.C. Conservation Officer Service stated Thursday that it had just become aware of the Oct. 15 incident, in which the bear silently approached the angler from behind at Kootowis Creek near Tofino.

“The bear made contact with the man, who was able to scare the animal away,” the agency reported via Twitter. “Although the bear knocked the man over, he was not injured.

“Conservation Officers are at the scene investigating and will continue to monitor the area. Signage is being placed to advise the public.”

It was not clear why the bear initiated contact with the fisherman.

Kootowis Creek is popular among anglers targeting salmon and cutthroat trout.

Large bear appears to ‘waltz’ with trees in comical video

Trail-cam footage showing a bear rubbing its massive body against trees, even standing and seeming to dance with their trunks, is being widely shared on the Internet.

Trail-cam footage showing a bear rubbing its massive body against trees, at times standing and seeming to dance, was shared Wednesday by NBC Montana with a “Caption this!” instruction.

“He could do a Charmin commercial,” one commenter joked.

“Just the Bear Necessities,” another chimed in, referring to a song in the Disney film, “The Jungle Book.”

Many commented on the bear’s masterful effort in relieving an itch. But bears typically rub against trees to mark territory, and male bears often mark several trees while searching for breeding mates.

A handful of NBC Montana followers suggested that someone put the bear’s actions to music. That’s when Don Redfoot, who captured the footage near Red Lodge, directed people to the Red Lodge Wildlife Sightings Facebook page, where the footage is put to music.

Click here to view Redfoot’s version and decide for yourselves whether his choice of “Waltzing with Bears” compliments or distracts from the bear’s tree-marking behavior.

With or without music, the footage is amusing and perhaps even enlightening.

–Image courtesy of Don Redfoot

Officials hunt for bear that attacked picnicking couple

The couple’s dog apparently played a part in the bear attack that occurred on a grassy hill along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

A couple picnicking on a grassy hill along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina was attacked by a black bear that apparently became agitated by the couple’s barking dog.

The encounter occurred Wednesday evening in the parking area of the Folk Art Center, according to the National Park Service via the Caldwell Journal.

The couple was alerted to the presence of the bear by their unleashed dog, which ran toward the bear while barking loudly.

“Likely aggravated by the dog, the bear acted defensively toward the dog and the couple” and “over the next several minutes, there were repeated attacks by the bear while the couple retreated with their dog to the safety of their vehicle,” the park service stated. “The couple drove to Mission Hospital where they were both treated for their injuries and released.”

The extent of their injuries were not known.

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The News & Observer reported that the Folk Art Center is a popular destination at Mile Post 382 near Asheville.

As a result of the attack, officials issued closures and restrictions in these areas:

The Mountains to Sea Trail from the intersection with the Visitor Center Loop Trail near parkway milepost 384 to Riceville Rd. Bridge at milepost 382.
The Folk Art Center Nature Loop Trail and all trails accessed off of Bull Mountain Road.
Picnicking is prohibited between the Asheville Visitor Center and adjacent parking areas near parkway milepost 384 to the Haw Creek Overlook near milepost 380.

Watch: A bear charges straight at a golfer, then stares at clubs

Tim Jeves was about to play a shot when he encountered a bear running full speed straight at him.

Tim Jeves was about to play a shot on the 12th hole at Swaneset Bay Resort and Country Club in British Columbia when he encountered a bear running full speed straight at him, a result of an oncoming golfer in a cart startling him.

“Do I make myself big and back away or do I run?” Jeves asked himself.

“I knew I’m supposed to do the former for a cougar but couldn’t remember whatever advice I’d been given for a frightened charging bear,” Jeves told USA Today/For The Win Outdoors.

“Honestly, I didn’t have time to really think. I won’t say I ran, but I definitely didn’t back away slowly. I was moving quickly and loudly calling out ‘Hey bear! Hey bear!’ To try to scare or slow him. It didn’t. The one thing I did do, which I later thought was stupid, was drop my club. The one thing that might have slowed him if it had come at me.”

But it didn’t follow him.

Instead, it climbed a tree, allowing Jeves a chance to get his phone out and videotape its next moves, which were quite bizarre.

As you can see, the bear appeared to be scared of the golf clubs sitting next to the tree, prompting Jeves to label his video, “Stationary Golf Clubs [a] Worthy Adversary for Scared Bear.”

Photo courtesy of ViralHog.

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Jogger runs for help after bear attacks camper

A Montana camper injured during a bear attack Saturday was rescued after receiving help from a jogger.

The incident occurred two hours after dawn at Mystic Lake in the Custer Gallatin National Forest.

According to the Gallatin Sheriff’s Office, the unidentified victim was too injured to hike out but flagged down a jogger “who was quickly able to make it to cell service and call 911.”

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The victim, after being located by LifeFlight personnel, was treated on site before being airlifted to Bozeman Deaconess Hospital.

The Associated Press reports that the person’s injuries were not considered to be life-threatening.

According to the U.S. Forest Service, improperly stored food probably attracted the bear to the camping area southwest of Bozeman. It was not immediately clear whether a black bear or grizzly bear bit the camper.

–Black bear image is generic

Black bear shows ‘powerful exit strategy’ when confronted by a grizzly

A grizzly bear in Glacier National Park spotted a black bear and sought to make it a meal, but the black bear had other plans.

A grizzly bear in Glacier National Park was entertaining a group of tourists from afar when it spotted a black bear and suddenly took off running after it.

Recognizing the dangerous situation it was in, the black bear took immediate action and used a handy escape route—up a tree.

Anthony James captured video of the encounter and shared it with Glacier National Park, which put it on its Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/GlacierNPS/videos/330788798631770

“Normally agreeable when food is abundant, grizzly and black bears run into one another more often when food is scarce—like early summer,” Glacier National Park wrote.

“While grizzly bears are larger and typically stronger than black bears, this black bear displays its powerful exit strategy: climbing!

“The short, sharp claws of the black bear are ideal for tree climbing. The grizzly’s longer, duller claws are great for digging, but poor for climbing—especially because an adult grizzly is substantially heavier than a black bear.”

Clearly, the grizzly had set its sights on making the black bear a meal.

In 2013, Steve Michel, a human-wildlife conflict specialist with Banff National Park, cited five instances when a grizzly has hunted, killed and eaten a black bear in Banff, according to an article by the CBC.

“It may not be as rare as we think it is,” he told CBC. “But it is rare that we actually are able to document it. We tend not to know about it at all…

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“Grizzly bears are opportunistic hunters. They will take advantage of any food source that presents itself.”

The black bear in this case escaped up a tree.

However, it was not known what happened once the video ended. We can only assume the grizzly moved on and a relieved black bear came down from the tree and lived happily ever after.

Photo of generic black bear from Clip Art Library.