Posted on 05/09/2015 2:18:27 PM PDT by skeptoid
Three 4-month-old Kodiak brown bear cubs were dehydrated, starving, cold, wet, exhausted and unprotected when a well-known hunting guide rescued them and put them up in his own cabin.
Without his help, Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Nate Svoboda said, the bears “probably wouldn’t have lasted another day.”
On May 1, the cubs’ mother was killed by an unguided hunter, Fish and Game said. Alaska Wildlife Troopers are investigating the sow’s death. Although brown bear hunting in Kodiak is open through mid-May, it is never legal to kill a sow with cubs.
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Unless the momma is with the Cubs it is hard to tell M/F.
A Kodiak moment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell#Death
And she hides them (or they hide themselves) when a threat is presnt (e.g. a hunter), so you gotta be very careful.
Not an expert here, but that's a consideration.
And she hides them (or they hide themselves) when a threat is presnt (e.g. a hunter), so you gotta be very careful.
Not an expert here, but that's a consideration.
I hunt deer in areas frequented by black bears. I have never shot one. Saw a few hind ends heading for distant locales. But the fact is there is NO Sexual dimorphism in bears as say deer, the males of which sport antlers ...or pheasants, where the male has beautifully colored plumage compared to the grey female. (Or humans for that matter where the female is wide in the correct areas.....thank the lord)
I might shoot a bear if a shots presented itself but I would probably take an inordinate amount of time double checking for cubs, to the point that the bear may tire of posing for me and book.
It’s good to check for the location of cubs. You do not want to be between them and momma.
I hunt in the densely forested NE. Very hard to see very far in most situations. The guy who owns the property I hunt was having a nighttime camp fire one August with a small group of friends. He got up to get a beer an noticed that there were cubs on one side of the fire and a large sow bear on the other, just a stones throw away. He froze. Mama scented him finally and headed uphill and the cubs headed uphill to meet her. It could have gone very different. He doesn’t go in the woods any longer without a firearm.
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