Posted on 07/07/2022 10:59:22 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An angry little squirrel has been filmed trying to scare away a black bear 1,000 times bigger that was trying to steal its nuts in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
In a clip from new Disney+ documentary series America the Beautiful, a hidden camera captures the moment when a bear tries to raid the squirrel's stash of nuts that it has been gathering for the winter, and the squirrel does its best to chase it away.
This camera trap footage is part of the documentary crew's approach, capturing fly-on-the-wall behavior that the animals might never have done if there was a human camera crew lurking nearby. This allowed the team to film smaller, quirkier natural stories that they might not have even known to look for.
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The squirrel’s eyes are set to the sides of the animals head so when it uses its eyes it gets two separate settings. When the squirrel stops in the road it does so because the two different scenes confuse it momentarily.
I think your are correct. Squirrels are are hard catch. Thanks for sharing that story.
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