Posted on 04/16/2020 9:02:00 AM PDT by 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.
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and there’s another agenda....blocking the tax payers from seeing where their tax dollars go....
#4 Like in Michigan where you cannot have a motor on your boat but can have a canoe or rowboat.
THAT comes from the environmental whackos!
I think that you are confusing Yosemite Park for Yellowstone Park. No Bison in Yosemite.
At least someone is. I think you are better off being an animal in America now.
Yup you’re right- it was Yellowstone- but really, it’s the same concept- animals in the parks aren’t disturbed by people- They have learned to coexist alongside- and many find food dropped by humans- giving them a better chance of survival
I remember that music from my kindergarten days....lining up to use the BR....lol
Yup. We had a wolf sanctuary around here for a time - deer leaps the fence into the pen with the pack in front of a group of horrified tourists who got to see up close and personal how beautiful the food chain is. For some reason management refunded the tourists their admission money. I don't see why.
so the bears are socializing...
but are they social distancing ???
Todays the day the teddy bears have their picnic....
Is reminded of the Far Side cartoon where a Zebra stands up to tell the rest of the herd move along, nothing to see.
Please do! I love your PINGS! :)
If you go down in the woods today
You’re sure of a big surprise
If you go down in the woods today
You’d better go in disguise!
For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain
Because today’s the day the
Teddy Bears have their picnic!
...and none were fat, not even the bears.
I fear for Bigfoot. Without sightings, he’s a NOTHING.
Sometimes you have to fight a bear just to get some Salmon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVS1UfCfxlU
The House of the Rising Sun?
If a bear defecates in the woods, and nobody is there to smell it, does that constitute an “animal party?”
How are the Bears having a party without left over Food from the campers ? Many years ago the Boy Scouts had a safety movie on Bears eating food left at a camp site - they tore open a bag of Dorito’s in a second. Bears go crazy for junk food.
No way they are having a party.
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