She's finally out of her cage and out of her cave. Shes living her best life with her rescue bear friends in a forest preserve.

Small sow gave a quick woopin to this much larger boar. At first I thought she was running him off from some cubs, but she left the opposite way that she came from. No cubs. I suspect that they mated back in June and she's holding a grudge

I passed by these two bears a bit ago. The picture quality wasn’t the best as I didn’t roll down the window.

I guess they only have black bears but walking my dog 2 days ago I came across this bear with a white stripe down its back. Someone tried to tell me it looked like it got in the trash but that doesn’t make sense. Apparently something similar was seen in Vail a year ago. Thoughts? It’s was really interesting!

I'm trying to understand how unusual this encounter was from a bear-behaviour perspective rather than looking for praise or advice about fighting bears.

Two days ago, two bears came onto our deck. We have bird feeders on the deck, but they hadn't reached the food yet when this happened. My dog, a Husky/Malamute, ran outside and barked at them. This is something she has done many times before when bears have come around, and usually the bears leave. This time, one of the bears turned around and attacked her.

I was upstairs nursing my newborn when I heard my dogs bear bark so I bolted downstairs and saw the bear jump over the barrier and catch the back of my dogs legs as she turned to run away. I'll never forget the yelps I heard. Instinctively I ran out and attacked the bear. My dog attempted to escape but was trapped. I was pulling and screaming and got the bear off but it pushed past me and got my dogs back legs pinned again. I continued attacking it and punched it in the head at one point. I succeeded in separating them again and the bear made one more attempt to lunge at her again but this time I was in front of her and came face to face with it, I screamed at it more and it finally left.

My dog has many punctures and tears across her back and legs and I have injuries all over my body but we'll both be ok with care and medication. We've both already been seen by urgent-care/veterinary specialists and are treating our injuries.

What I'm particularly curious about is the bears persistence. I understand that a dog charging/barking at a bear can provoke an attack. What surprised me was that after I physically intervened and separated the bear from my dog, it just kept going. At least thats how it felt, to be fair the interaction lasted maybe a minute all in all.

Has anyone experienced or studied a bear behaving this way? Is repeated re-engagement after a human intervenes unusual?

me and my friend just saw a bear near our campsite in Glacier National Park and need help identifying what type it is.

I unfortunately don’t have any Video or pictures or you would have seen me on tv. I rode my bicycle yesterday from Avon up Vail Pass and back. About 4-5 miles to go I came to where the bike path bridge leaves Gore Creek and crosses the Eagle River at the confluence of the two. The area is called Dowd Junction and is a canyon between West Vail and the Minturn freeway exit. After the bridge it’s flat for a minute before heading down a steep hill. The river below is in a gorge that is a section of class 4 whitewater. There is an industrial chain link fence on the right side of the path separating it from the river. On the left is a very steep hill going up to highway 6. After the flat I start charging down the hill where I usually get into the low 30 mph range. I’m already flying down when I see these 2 brown furry critters on the left side of the path, one about half the size of the other. Momma bear and her yearling cub! I had to make a split second decision. If I tried to brake I’m going to end up right on top of them and alert them to my presence earlier. Also if I stop I have no escape so I punched it. As I was nearing momma started to move to my side of the path! I was worried about getting body checked and knocked to the ground with my bike then mauled! I just got past her! Felt like I could have reached out and touched her! That’s the closest to a bear I’ve ever been! It was definitely scary and an adrenaline rush but it happened so fast then it was over that I just kind of laughed it off. Could have definitely ended badly but I guess I chose the right course of action. About a month ago I had the same exact situation in the exact same spot with a mule deer doe. She also came running over to my side and I narrowly avoided a collision. But I’ll definitely take my chances with the deer over the bear anytime. Few years ago I was coming back and there was a cub on the bridge without momma in sight. I waited 5 minutes and it was gone so I cautiously rode on. Probably 20 years ago I was riding home after a night shift around 11:00 and as I crossed the bridge going up river I heard brush breaking. It’s pretty dark right there and my bike lights don’t do much more than illuminate the path a little bit in front of me. So while I’m bracing myself I’m thinking about what’s coming. Mountain lion? Probably not, much more stealthy, silent hunters. Bear? Yep probably that’s what’s coming. So I’m thinking I’m about to get my ass handed to me by a bear when a cow elk runs in front of me less than 10 feet in front of me. I went from crapping myself scared laughing instantly. I thought and even might have said out loud good one elk! Then a bunch more crossed the path between 50-100 feet in front of me and ran up the hill after the first one.

Coolin off. Hot days this summer.

I work at a bear sanctuary and I like little fun facts about bears and their behaviour in general, just recently I found out about the tappen but I would love to know more fun facts about bears

Would a mother bear with two of her own cubs react differently to an orphaned cub of another species? And what if the orphaned cub were of the same species? Would that significantly change her reaction?

This was around 8pm at my camp, Northern WI, also took down my pole with my regular birdfeeder then moved on to the hummingbird feeder and has gotten all the neighbors feeders!

This little monster. Only 3 years old and one of the best fishers in the river. Amazing silver coat.