A Yellowstone Grizzly Bear, 815, aka Obsidian Sow or Mini Mom, and her Adorable New Cubs.

(See her and her 3 new cubs in 2019 here: • A Yellowstone Grizzly ... ) The Obsidian Sow is also known as Mini Mom and Bear 815. She lives on the west side of Yellowstone. In 2016 she had three cubs. She lost two of them and the third went its own way last summer, 2018. This spring, 2019, she came out with three more cubs. We hope she can keep them all healthy. She is a great mom and is pretty good at avoiding trouble. Once I get enough footage I'll put together a new movie of her new family.
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[@wangmowangdi3471]

What a beautiful video to watch on Mother's Day 😍 ❤

[@juliamansurova5306]

Какие забавные мишутки, просто прелесть и восторг !! Очень интересно наблюдать за ними ..... СПАСИБО большое Создателю, Богу за Его Чудо -- творение !!

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

Добро пожаловать! Благодарю вас!

[@yveslabbe9608]

J'adore! Une superbe de belle vidéo! Merci!

[@kodiakandgrizzlybears3787]

Wow!! Wonderful footage!!

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

Thank you! I was lucky.

[@kodiakandgrizzlybears3787]

@@JudyLehmbergEpicNature I've already watched other footages of yours over the past 3 days or so. I suppose you film wildlife on a regular basis, don't you??

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

@@kodiakandgrizzlybears3787 you are correct. I taught biology in a college in Texas for a career. When we retired I started doing this basically full time, any wildlife, anywhere, any time. I love it all. I assume, by your name, you love Alaska and Yellowstone.

[@spaceforthesoul6286]

I never watched a video of baby bears and i enjoyed this so much 😍 and the pure way of filming 👍 thank you Jufy🌺

[@spaceforthesoul6286]

Judy

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

You are most welcome!

[@johnlarson1249]

Tell me that I am not the only one that loves seeing those little leather patches on the bottom of the cub's paws? I think that it's just so cute and funny. From the screen, it honestly looks like something fashioned out of a movie's wardrobe department. I tend to forget about those little patches, but then everyonce-in-a-while, when a couple of cubs are sparring, one or both of them will start tumbling around, and sure enough, a little tiny leg shoots straight up in the air, and there is that little tiny leather patch...just hilarious. If I had access to a really young cub, I would attempt to tickle them mercilessly on those little patches. It just looks like it would be a sensitive enough area that, by default, it would be somewhat ticklish. Man, if this all worked out, and the cub was indeed ticklish, I would not stop doing it. Oh, they would learn to hate me...lol.

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

John sounds like you and I share our love bear paws. They are so cute, especially on a little cub. I have a thing about them on all cats, dogs, bears, weasels, etc.

[@ilonailona916]

🐻🐻🐻❤️❤️❤️

[@voraciousreader3341]

I was just watching a video of a mama bear with one cub, and I’m feeling awfully sad for that cub now as I watch the constant playing of these two siblings! Single cubs surely miss out on a lot, especially when the mother is ready for a new litter and tells the cub to leg it!

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

Over the years we've seen a number of bears with a single cub. When a cub doesn't have a sibling usually their mom will play with them. It is really sad to watch when mom boots a cub out, especially when it is just one.

[@evdaki1516]

Маленькие борцы вольного стиля:)

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

Exactly!

[@khandeexiong7769]

Amazing footage Judy! Such inspirational view, make me feel like I should have gone to college for wildlife biology instead...…..

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

Thank you! Wildlife science was a great career choice for me, as well as a great hobby.

[@JustMe-cy3wg]

💕💕💕

[@minwookkim5107]

🐻

[@jeromedado7416]

The collar has her own protection at the same time

[@danelobe2524]

This is a grizzly sow known as Bear 815, I've watched her many times, she has a few trails the park has with lots of human traffic that she is seen on from time to time. She's a smart ol' mother and sticks around human trails when there's big boars, and wolves around that threaten the lives of her cubs. She is really tolerant to people, because she knows they wont kill her cubs, and that people keep big boar bears and wolves away. However, she is not to be trusted, she will attack you, and you wont survive her bites and claws. I was on a rock watching elk, when she came out of the deep timber above me with her then 3 cubs in tow. She walked right past me, knowing I was standing on this rock, but more concerned with the woods behind her. I stood pepper spray in hand as high on the boulder as I could, quoting Psalms 23 with a stern voice. She would look at me, then look at the woods, She knew I was there on the rock, but passed at the base of the rock 30 feet from me anyway. I had gotten to engrossed in watching elk and I didn't notice her until it was to late to retreat away from her. This could have been a deadly mistake on my behalf. Knowing it was bear 815, kept me from panicking in terror, just because she's real calm around people and this was our 3rd close encounter with each other over the past few springs and summers. However just the size of her is enough to remind you that she is a wild bear that will kill you and can for any reason or infraction she thinks of. Bears are no joke, they cant be trusted, my rule, keep no less than 400 yards between you and them, because they can cover 200 yards running before you do 50 yards. I have never stood my ground with her, that's threatening posture, but always backed away from her with eye contact quoting a poem or Psalm in a firm monotone voice, pepper spray can in hand. She twitches her ear back no forth, but always allows me to retreat, before moving on herself. But to be honest that can of spray wont save my life, at 30 yards eye level your dead if she wants you to be. Moma bear 815 is a kind animal with a good heart, but that thinking is false security because she still a mommy grizzly. She stopped around 200 yards below me to graze, keeping me in between her and the woods. I'm guessing it was another grizzly she ran from. After my batteries ran down filming her, and her cute cubs, when my hands stopped shaking, I left for a trail. Looking back she became nervous once again, watching me leave, and wandered down towards the valley. l saw her over a year later but in September, and she had no cubs. I spotted her earlier this spring, and she has 3 cubs again, to protect. This is great footage of one the most popular grizzly's inside Yellowstone's ecosystem.

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

Thanks for taking the time to talk about your encounters with her. Wish more people had your good sense in several ways: knowing how she is using humans for protecting, that she can go from zero to deadly in an instant and what a great bear she is. I have some footage of her on my channel from this year, when she still had 3 COY, you might enjoy. If you had to guess how old do you think she is? I know she had COY in 2010 and I’ve heard she is around 15, but I don’t know if the latter is true.

[@johnlarson1249]

Wow...mom's tracking collar is so small that one hardly notices it, and it doesn't look restrictive at all. It's like it just blends in to the whole of the scenery. I bet when she awoke from that slumber of hers that she didn't even realize something was different. OK...I'm being sarcastic, yes, but dude, it was the first thing I noticed about two seconds into the video. I'm being unfair in my criticism with the researchers, because they are truly limited in what they can effectively do to track bears' movements, eating spots, sleeping areas, rest areas, migrating patterns, etc. I'm someone who understands just how important the data they collect from each transmitter truly is. I just can't help but feel bad for the bear. As a highly sensitive animal, I'm guessing that it took her a while to get used to it. In fact, I would guess that she probably made several attempts to have it removed from her body (bears are truly smart animals...and from what I've seen...they are problem solvers. They can figure things out with regard to certain problems that most other animals would simply walk away from, completely stumped. During my time, I've seen bears learn how to operate many different door handles, learn multiple instances of car doors and vehicle hatchbacks, get into 'bear-proof' trash cans and dumpsters, open garage doors, open different styles of windows in houses, roll down car windows, figure out about a hundred different food coolers, and figure out multiple ways of getting around electric fences and gates, etc. I've seen bears do some remarkable things. They don't seemingly get frustrated too easily, so I think it's their patience that ends up truly being a virtue for them, especially in all things cognitive. Anyway, depending on how long the collar has been worn, I'm certain that she is used to it by now. I have to imagine, though, that there was a period of time where she made many attempts to have it removed, and I would not be surprised one bit if her cubs either took an obsessive interest in it at the beginning, and if they also tried to help remove it, either by their own curiosity...or perhaps by order of their very own mother...lol.

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

She may have tried to get it off. I’ve haven’t any indication that it bothers her. I’ve voiced my concerns to Yellowstone’s bear management. They say it doesn’t bother them. There was a famous bear named Scarface in Yellowstone. He had many collars over the years. (They are designed to fall in 3 years.) He successfully got some the early ones off but then apparently lost interest. Thanks for caring!

[@jaysong9843]

Lovely bear family. Looks the tracker is too tight for the mom

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

I understand why you say that about the collar but I've been assured by the bear biologists that it isn't. Also it doesn't stay on the bear forever. It usually falls off in about 3 years.

[@jamesdooling4139]

Were those two male cubs or two female?

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

I don't know. She only had one that ended out surviving and it is a female.

[@dr.d399]

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[@lukawilson7991]

Too cruel to apply that big uncomfortable tracking collar on momma bear😡

[@LegoCookieDoggie]

Bears eat grass? huh

[@JudyLehmbergEpicNature]

They're omnivorous. They will eat just about anything. Given the choice they'll take a baby elk over grass any day. But they do eat a lot of grass, and the baby elk aren't here yet.

[@juliamansurova5306]

Ягоды едят,. возможно земляника -- клубника .......

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

I suspect that they extract sugar and protein from young grasses.