Education on the misconceptions of wild Black Bears

I'm actually very nervous on camera when I'm not the one recording it myself. So I noticed a lot of grammar mistakes and other information I leave out since I'm nervous. 😬 When I touched base on Ethan and I taking a chemical immobilization class. And I mentioned not being able to collar the animals without tranquilization, This was specifically animals living in the wild we were taught on. But I learned something new today, that some species you can just gain the trust without traumatizing them. (Because obviously we don't need to tranquilize our foxes to put a collar on them 😂)

Thank you for sharing this. And the emphasis on “this only applies to Black Bears.”

The only things I know about black bears is that they can be very shy and easily scared off, and they...are bears, and do bear things like amble around looking for food. That's pretty much it.

If I had to make a list of all the things I wasn't expecting to see today, Mikayla demonstrating what a charging bear looks like would still probably not be on there

When I was pet sitting for my friends on the outskirts of town there were multiple times I'd hear the bears on the front porch, open the door and say "hey I'm gonna have to ask you to leave" and they'd bolt. Always fun.

The little one is like "Yeah okay, that sounds all interesting, but can you keep feeding me!!!"😊❤😂

Respect bears , dont harm them , against hunters luring bears in with sweets,bears have a right to be here and live too...🐻💕💕

I love how beautiful black bears are

My grandparents lived in Pennsylvania with a ton of black bears. The worst they ever did was get in the garbage. Total sweet hearts

While Mikayla is talking, the big dude is like "why does she keep giving me such small portions?".

Some of the male black bears in bulking up season (August onwards) can get VERY AGGRESSIVE. And of course momma bears with cubs can get understandably aggressive as well. I grew up in black bear country in Massachusetts; please, the public needs to understand that as cute as the bears can look, they are NOT puppy dogs.

I lived in "Bear Country" for 12 years . I had several encounters with Black Bears, none negative. Two were actually really cool and fun.

I remember living in Poland and they would come around to our farm to eat sugar beets. It was my job to feed them beet scraps and other things that were left over, and then they would leave. 🙂❤️ I don't know why people harm these blessed creatures so much. They're such clumsy lil chunky bois.

Wow, what a wonderful thing they're doing, for the bears and for campers. Everyone wins! This was such an informative video. Thank you for sharing.

It's amazing what happens when you remove food desperation. Thanks for the info SAF.

This just blew my mind from the jump. I knew black bears are the most generally chill bear species, but the idea that they could actually be hand-fed safely never occurred to me in my wildest dreams. Thanks for sharing and demonstrating! 🙏♥️

Awesome video! Black bears in the wild are more scared of us than we are of them. Just be sure not to get between a momma bear and her cubs.

"Bears prefer wild food to human food" tell that to the bear in Tahoe that keeps raiding the mini mart for candy bars, honestly I cannot blame him, lol.

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I often have black bears on my property. I am not afraid of them, but I would never feed them, especially by hand. They are just too big and unpredictable. And they don't really "flee." Mostly they will glance at you and go about their business. If you make enough noise, they will slowly saunter away.