We began collecting bear sightings from website visitors in 2005 with the promise of someday mapping those sightings. We now have over 500 sightings on a Google Map. You can view previous sightings or add a new one here .
At the left is the winning entry for 2 bears in one image. This image of Ted in the forground and Lucky on the far side of the pond was submitted by 3 people!
Instructions:
PC users - right-click on webcam and choose "Save Image As..."
Mac users - control-click on webcam and choose "Save Image As..."
Attacks are rare and excessive warnings about them create unnecessary fear.
Balanced and factual information about bears is hard
to find. Providing that information is the main goal of the North
American Bear Center where the bears themselves provide much of the
information through video footage and research data.
Black bears use sounds, body language, and scent-marking to express their emotions of the moment.
The main thing that helped me get over my fear of bears was learning their language—learning to interpret bear bluster in terms of their fear rather than my fear—learning that behaviors I thought were threatening were really expressions of their own apprehension.
- Lynn L. Rogers, Ph.D., 2007
Amiable sounds are grunts and
tongue clicks used by mothers concerned for their cubs and by bears
approaching other bears to mate or play. Cubs make a motor-like
pulsing hum when they nurse or are especially comfortable.
