Now the park's policy is the opposite, Bears are mostly kept in managed areas away from people and denied human food and food waste.
Bears are very smart, in fact, I once heard an animal intelligence expert claim that bears and pigs [which are related] are the smartest non-primate species. [She claimed the intelligence of dolphins was highly overrated.] They can be very quickly trained to show themselves to visitors, but the park service doesn't want the liability anymore.
“Bears are very smart, in fact, I once heard an animal intelligence expert claim that bears and pigs [which are related] are the smartest non-primate species.”
And when you hunt feral pigs you have to make sure you have a pistol on the ready after you take one down because they’ve been known to play dead and attack the hunter and kill them.