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Of Bears and People II
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This is the second image of a short series on the interaction between bears and people in Western Canada's national parks. For a complete story start with the first shot of the series.
When wildlife, and especially bears are sighted on the side of the highway, the motorists will stop, watch and take pictures. The best sign that there is something to see out there is a bunch of cars stopped on the shoulder and a large crowd of tourists agitating cameras. When park wardens run into such gathering, they will usually ask everyone to get into their cars and leave, and will often shoot a few firecrackers at the bear in order to scare him back into the forest. First time when I saw this I was surprised, because I had presumed that one of the main reasons tourist visit these parks is to see wildlife.
In this instance, as it was still early in the season, not too many tourists were on the road and only 10 – 15 cars had stopped by the bear. The animal was still going after his grazing business, when a slice of bread flew through the open window of the rented van ahead of me. The bear grabbed his snack in an instant and spent some time enjoying it, as you can see in the picture. Now to the feeding of wildlife... As a kid, I regularly fed bread to the animals in the zoo, no matter if it was wolves, bears, camels or deer. It seemed a great idea at the time, the animals obviously liked it and in my mind it couldn't have been bad for them, since it was the same stuff that I ate as well. I even gave the occasional morsel to a chipmunk out in the wild, and once handed a cookie to a bighorn sheep through the car window. It turns out though that this behavior is by all means ignorant: feeding wildlife doesn't work well for people, and it especially does not work well for the animals. Stay tuned for more... |
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Amazing picture with great contrast. I love it. That looks like a bear i wouldnt want to get close to. It look preatty angry.
Olá Roland,
Beautiful scene. Rich colors and contrast, nice composition and very intesresting Note
Cheers
Raimundo
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