Learning Life Lessons From Bears

[@N4HHE]

I want a "Bears Are The Reason We Can't Have Nice Things" t-shirt!

[@BillHale-p9d]

Me too 😂

[@Frontireadventures]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@N4HHE]

Or maybe better: a coffee cup!

[@1954shadow]

Bear wanted some privacy, lol.

[@HangtownDave]

Bears have been my nemesis for 55 years throughout the mountains and forests of Northern California, Oregon, Nevada, etc... From eating/destroying everything they can reach, to throwing parties in my pool or my hot tub while I'm at work, to finding them over wintering under my buildings during 50ft winters, to being the first to have one pop out after the spring thaw and say "Howdy!", to them, to breaking into my RV's and hanging out after they have tasted every color of every item inside of them, to their creation of multiple "Wallows" which they make by tearing out the pipes and irrigation lines in my landscaping and making a mess of everything, and so on.... Such are the ways of Ursus Americanus, may they all go bald and get sunburns on their butts.....😕😎

[@JohnDoe-qg6hm]

Poor Bears, Why the hate ? They just chillin. ! :)

[@cydniedonat7635]

Okay, the Bob cat definitely heard the camera. Besides the bears' incredible sense of smell, yes, you leave your scent wherever you go, as I'm sure you know. They target where you left the most scent. 😊😊😊

[@scrappydog175]

Sweet bobkitty! Busy place.😊

[@saxonwarrior388]

Bears have excellent sense of smell many times better than a dog, so they're smelling you on the camera, act accordingly.

[@OutbackCottageOz]

Yogi 🐻 says please keep putting up the Cameras! We love them! 📸 🤳 Hey Boo Boo - These Cameras are Bearlicious!!

[@JaiHylRubis]

😂😂😂

[@FirstDagger]

Clearly they want to wallow in peace lol.

[@JerryGreen-so8yg]

Bears don’t like the paparazzi .

[@dejaqua]

The video clearly shows a sasquatch moving the camera. We see this all the time in Northern Michigan.

[@davebloggs]

they like the mud because it turns to dust and the bugs hate the dust. but that is just based on what i see them do here, its mostly dry powdery mud

[@BillHale-p9d]

Going to have call you Ranger Wilson. The way the bears giving the business 😅

[@michaela1655]

I love bears!

[@sswwooppee]

I really enjoy your style of videos. Thanks!

[@alanharrison538]

👍🏻👍🏻 Thank you for the video.

[@garysnyder6020]

What a great place you live in. Really like the animal video's Thanks for sharing, I don't see a firearm on you. Guess you can run faster than a bear.😁 Ever skin a Grizz Pilgrim?

[@rickdommett]

from Canada, I've never owned a trail camera. Here I am at 77 years and thinking maybe the camera makes a sound the bears hear when the light comes on, and that's what pi-ses them off. just a thought. still watching each and every one, if I was a drinker, be a good time to have a drink and relax, and I am good at the relaxing thing.....take care.

[@JohnDoe-qg6hm]

To be fair to the bears, for once, I think if i were a bear id take a little offense as well too some old guy creeping through the trees and putting up cameras around my favorite spot to take a mud bath :/ How would you feel Wilson if I were to put a few cameras up about your cabin and pool ! Just to see what you were getting up to in the pool :) I guess the bears will have to adjust to this Surveillance Society we live in. :D

[@D-B-Cooper]

Maybe it’s those guys in the bear suits.

[@JB-vx6py]

Bearly seen the mud wallow lol

[@hananc]

Instead of breaking the top branches, use a rake to pull the top fruits. Remember you are human. You can use tools.

[@charleswalters5284]

@@hananc so can at least 20 animals

[@saltrock9642]

Here in Louisiana we only have a couple thousand bears but that seems to be enough to cause you to not have nice things. Glad they opened a lottery hunt for them.

[@trumpzilla4193]

A bear discovered a way to defeat our elk fence using the support cross bars at the corners and absconded with 10 of our chickens and never paid! Am I in California? Winderdome Resort

[@TheLandbo]

When an animal rolls in mud, it is usually to remove/protect itself against parasites/lice/fleas from/in the fur. I guess it also applies to bears in North America.

[@Bushman9]

A black bear was shot in eastern Ontario a few years back… it had over 400 ticks on it! Either the bear didn’t wallow or the ticks are wallow resistant.

[@michaela1655]

The bears are always right. Full stop.

[@allenandmain]

Thamks

[@SickofTired]

The cameras are likely making a sound the bears can hear. In the 80s, the computer class teacher asked me to stop by at the end of the school day to turn off any computer monitors that were still on. My friends used to make a scene out of me being able to walk up to any that were still on. They likely think it's an insect and are looking for a treat

[@jeffpeters1014]

You may have gotten some bacon grease on the camera 😉🤣

[@Theferalyogi]

The bears are on counter surveillance after hearing rumors that women were choosing them😂

[@dialecticcoma]

Ranger Smith back on the job

[@johnpauloregan4593]

You love the bears really Michael, don't you. 😁

[@Delgwah]

Thank you👍😎

[@dccrens]

Face it. They want privacy for bear "wallowing". Wallowing is X-rated.

[@chir0pter]

Solution is to put two cameras so they lose interest after taking out the first!

[@bard44]

Bears have poor sight but excellent smell. They smell HUMAN on your cameras. Spray your cameras with bear spray and they won't bother them anymore.

[@joelleblanc-km9cm]

Is that an old mine shaft next to the wallow?

[@brianparks440]

We have a lot of the same issues here in northwest Montana in regard to bears and other critters. And yeah, bears wreak havoc in my orchard as well as my neighbor’s chicken yard. But who was there first? The chickens or the bears?

[@henrybarker1159]

Bear with an ear tag ? is this a local bear or a problem bear relocated from somewhere else ?

[@thekiltedsawyer]

This has been going on for decades in Utah

[@woodworker3122]

Drag a light ladder into the woods and put those cameras a lot higher. Leave the ladder for camera retrieval. Then we can see the bear activity without camera damage all the time. Worth a try?

[@TheDrewCharles]

Can The eyes of night nocturnal creatures see or discern infrared?

[@GraySquirrelMFG]

Some nocturnal creatures CAN see infrared light, but that is besides the mud wallow question.

[@graystonegardens1642]

The solution has a caliber....

[@thekiltedsawyer]

Thanks for sharing whats going on on your property. Do you use Woodmizer California??

[@Zombeegun]

maybe the bears are picking up your scent from your hands and think it's something tasty

[@dccrens]

It would be great to figure out how many different bears you have filmed. I wonder how many are in the areas.

[@kevinryan1827]

Maybe risk 2 or 3 cameras with overlapping views, like points of a triangle looking in at a good spot?

[@jdhtyler]

They do not seem to attack the camera at night, my guess is that it not a smell issue or IR led light. I wonder what sort of vision bears have ? I have been told that deer hunters could wear bright clothing and the animals would not notice because of their vision system. It seems the case that hunters shoot each other because they are camouflaged and it works for human vision. just asking ? all the best

[@jimdavis8548]

You need to put Hot pepper spray around you cameras or dangle peppers around them.

[@michaelogden5093]

Maybe it's an elk wallow the bears are checking out.

[@billj503]

where is this at?

[@GraySquirrelMFG]

The camera problem and the mud-wallow question are separate issues. But consider that some nocturnal creatures can see infra-red. If the wallow is actually a scent trap, and if the bear can see infra-red and has enough intelligence then it is possible that the bear understands that the camera is subverting his trap and is purposely upsetting the cameras. Wait. Do you have proof that the bear is creating the wallow? As far as the idea that the mud is used as an insect repellant, the bear is NOT covered in mud and usually avoids even walking on the mud, but he does do a lot of sniffing in and around the area.

[@clayoreilly4553]

Those are just some very shy bears. They don't want their toilet habits broadcast all over the internet. How would you like it if the bears took video of you showering in the altogether and then broadcast it all over on Bare TV? Yeah. Ever since Goldilocks, bears do not trust humans. And I can't blame them for that.

[@markchester7584]

You tried putting any of that bear spray on it to try to keep them away from your camera?

[@nonyabznezz2263]

Take some ghost pepper hot sauce and a cotton swab and wipe the surface of the camera down. Once that ghost pepper gets in their mouth they'll leave it alone.

[@jessesumrall2449]

Sasquatch

[@edisoncarteresq9111]

Looks like you need to open your land up for hunting! There are many who would like a floor rug from your bears!

[@wootenbasset8631]

Suspicious?! Maybe bears aren’t real.🤔

[@TheDrewCharles]

Will game and wildlife sell you a bear certificate to clear your land of problem creatures?

[@hirsutusi5536]

Try wiping down the cameras with some cheap perfume. - Tony.

[@kenbrown2808]

so... still up to no good.

[@dgoodman1484]

Well just try to imagine what a different world it would have been if our founding fathers gave us the right to keep and arm bears! Think we were lucky on that one! 😏

[@Nickrioblanco1]

Why don't you raise the cameras to heights the bear can't reach. The definition of insanity is do the same thing over and over expecting as different result.

[@randallcammack6932]

Black bears climb trees.

[@charleswalters5284]

Isn't that the definition of practice?

[@Nickrioblanco1]

@charleswalters5284 Only if there is improvement.

[@charleswalters5284]

@@Nickrioblanco1 You can practice without improvement. You probably practiced sentence structure.

[@Nickrioblanco1]

@@charleswalters5284 😒