Posted on 10/24/2024 7:37:12 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
A beloved grizzly bear known as an ambassador for her species was fatally struck on a highway in Wyoming, National Park Service officials said Wednesday.
Grizzly bear 399, who got her name through a research number assignment in 2001, had a yearling cub with her when she was hit on a highway in Snake River Canyon south of Jackson, authorities said. The cub's whereabouts are unknown, but there's no evidence to suggest that it was injured.
The driver is OK, officials said. While the circumstances of the fatal crash were not immediately clear, authorities said 49 grizzly bears died because of vehicle collisions between 2009 and 2023.
Grizzly bears generally live to be around 25, though some in the wild have lived for over 35 years, according to the Fish & Wildlife Service. Grizzly bear 399 was 28 when she was killed.
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Yep. No shortage of cougars. Especially in California. I hear they hang around High Schools and Universities.
There are fewer where you live because they won’t stay off the roads.
There are plenty everywhere else.
Mountain lions in Southern California and along the Central Coast are gravely threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation from freeways and rampant sprawl development.Hemmed in by highways and killed by cars, California’s cougars are isolated in small, unsustainable populations. Barriers prevent young mountain lions from migrating in or out to establish their own home ranges and find mates.
That’s causing dangerous inbreeding and genetic-diversity declines, leaving some mountain lion populations vulnerable to extinction. In fact, some could disappear in just 15 years if inbreeding gets worse.
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/California-mountain-lion/index.html
Warner Herzog made a documentary about this nuttiness, “grizzly man.” The guy was always recording himself, there is audio from the fatal attack. Herzog filmed himself listening to it but doesn’t play it for the audience. From his reaction it must have been pretty bad. I feel really bad for the girl whose presence surprised me—the guy comes off as 100% fruit cake.
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