re: Grand Teton's Famous Grizzly 399 Is Dead

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 I try to take mature animals as all hunters should. What’s wrong with that?

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Anthropomorphization and subsequent feelings .

Shut the frick up idiots. I hate rednecks

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Grand Teton's Famous Grizzly 399 Is Dead

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Meanwhile, our resident bear lives on....

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went to GTNP for the first time in 2019. The next spring is when she came out of hibernation with these quads. That’s when I started following her. She was able to raise them to the age of 2 when she put them out on their own. If you know anything about grizzlies you know that this is an incredible feat with all of the predators in this area. She was very special.

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The greatest threat to a sow and her cubs is another grizzly, specifically a boar.

What’s absolutely amazing and scientifically validated by the naturalist and biologists at GTNP & Yellowstone is that they specifically tracked her and were amazed at her success rate of rearing cubs. They also figured out through observation that she had specifically learned or been taught to rear her cubs near the tourist areas and the roadways that eventually took her life. The large boars usually live wild in the back country and hardly ever venture into the park boundaries until the rutting season for bears.

Also, they observed her interactions with other females that the biologists knew were her offspring, some more than a decade old and the familiar bond was strong. They observed the sows getting along as one might an expect a reunited mother & daughter might act as they watched over the two sets of cubs play and forage together.

I wish too damn I could find the original link, particularly for the images of 399 and the Tetons, but it’s buried somewhere in a Petapixel archive.

Petapixel

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She was a smart bear that learned a lot in her life it seems.

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We should kill her, because, why the hell not?

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There was a thread somewhere on TD that I included the link to her incredible story, but in the story it mentions that she charged and essentially ran over a set of hikers on a blind turn, but she had her cubs with her and it was no more than that, no bites nor scratches.

Evidently, both GTNP and Yellowstone have a “wild” policy in place for human-bear interactions and won’t put bears down for being bears, excluding predatory attacks.

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That's one of the better policies they've put in place. Those encounters happen, but they are truly a risk of being in bear country.

You may be interested in a podcast called Tooth and Claw. It is an animal attack podcast that covers attack stories done by two brothers and their friend. One of the hosts is a bear biologist, and the main point of the podcast is centered on conservation and understanding. They've done everything from bees to bears to sharks and chimps.