The two little black dots that move around are a bison and a grizzly bear, filmed in Yellowstone National Park.
I say “filmed,” but gee whiz–you’d think the camera could’ve been moved a bit closer. It’s perfectly safe: the animals are interested in each other. (No, they are NOT little teeny-weeny animals! They’re just far away.)
I wonder if the bison could’ve caught the bear if he’d tried a little harder.
Wow! That bear didn’t want to mess with the bison, that’s for sure. I’ve seen bison, in South Dakota but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bear in the wild. Neither are something to trifle with.
Come on out to NJ: a bear will show up on your sidewalk.
Send him here and I’ll introduce him to an Arizona Jaguar. 🙂
Have you actually seen one of those?
Every time I open the front door. I call him Chuck. 🙂
I’ve never seen one, but circa 2011, a fellow was hunting just a few miles south of my house and actually ran into one. They are occasional visitors to the area, but I don’t think that they’ve ever established a breeding population.
There’s a somewhat humid micro climate in Mexico, not all that far away, and they believe that the Jaguars spotted around here probably come from that area. To the best of my knowledge, they’ve only spotted transient males in the US. The mountainous areas provide a suitable habitat for Jaguars, without the harshness of the desert.
The area directly around here has abundant deer and if I was a Jaguar, that would be darned interesting. I think that the deer like to head for the mountains in summer, so that makes it very interesting for the Jaguars. I live just a few miles from the mountains, on fairly flat land and it gets pretty hot here, so I’d be surprised if any Jaguars ever got into my neighborhood, but not at all surprised to hear of one down in the mountains.
With trail cameras that sense motion, they have apparently spotted a number of these cats since 2011, but it’s no longer newsworthy. They know that there’s a breeding population nearby, in Mexico, and they have been spotted in several mountainous areas south and east of Tucson. With the exception of Donnie Fenn’s encounter in 2011, not far from here, no human has directly encountered any Jaguars in the area.