With no tourists around, animals at Yosemite are 'having a party'

CNN ^ | 4-16-20 | Marnie Hunter

[SJackson]

Being cooped up at home is no fun for humans, but bears are making the most of the extra space at California's shuttered Yosemite National Park.

"The bears are just literally walking down the road to get to where they need to go," Ranger Katie Patrick said during a Facebook Live event on Sunday. She is a wildlife biologist who has worked with black bears in Yosemite since 2007.

"For the most part, I think they're having a party," she said in response to questions about what the animals have been doing since Yosemite closed on March 20.

Normally this time of year is difficult for animals at Yosemite because there can be "literally walls of cars, stop-and-go traffic or people in the park," especially in the sort of "urban" Yosemite Valley area.

Katie Patrick, known as Ranger Katie, works with the Human Bear Management Program, mitigating conflicts that arise when you have humans and bears so close together.

"The goal of my position is to have as wild of bears as possible in this park," she said during her presentation from Cook's Meadow in Yosemite Valley.

[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

Perhaps I'll have time to "restart" this ping list, since I'm not supposed to be outdoors other than dog walking. I presume the bears don't have distancing problems.

[TruthWillWin]

[Gay State Conservative]

OK,there ya go! Quarantine must be the norm from now on.Air quality in Southern California is better than it's been in 50 years..and animals are flourishing in the wild.

We now know what the EnviroWackos and the AnimalWackos will be demanding.

[seastay]

I can’t think anyplace safer with good social distance than out a trail at Yosemite.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

With no tourists around, animals at Yosemite are 'having a party'

A "party" for bears or wolves is taking down a deer and eating it alive. A "party" for a deer is managing to get away from the bears and wolves that try to take it down and eat it alive. People who want to pretend that human beings are the worst thing that ever happened to nature and animals know nothing about nature or animals.

[Bonemaker]

[Bob434]

[[”The bears are just literally walking down the road to get to where they need to go,”]]

Come on- when i went through there- bears and bison and everything else that wanted to walked right down the roads to ‘get where they wanted to go’ - the stopped cars didn’t phase them at all- and all of them had party hats on too-

[Savage Beast]

"The goal of my position is to have as wild of bears as possible in this park"???

to have as many wild bears as possible?

to have bears as wild as possible?

[Mercat]

https://youtu.be/uxFIGWm9M6w

[yoe]

Hey Kiddo, that is Nature’s Food Chain....did you think wild animals go to a grocery store?

[Wuli]

Yes. The world would be so wonderful if all of humanity just remained shut down. /sarc

[17th Miss Regt]

did you think wild animals go to a grocery store?

Obviously not! They are using Insta-Cart.

[yoe]

Takes me back a few years, loved it then and love it now. Thanks!

[ducttape45]

Love it!

[R_Kangel]

.... It’s Spring .... There will be a huge animal population explosion in parks.

[gibsonguy]

I expect the rats to propose we do this one month every year so “earth can heal” if/when this ends.

[Calvin Locke]

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Meanwhile, in the cities... Starving rats are resorting to war and cannibalism to survive coronavirus lockdown

[Gamecock]

[minnesota_bound]

They are ripping each other apart and eating each other.