Bear with a fawn...

Guy Miner · Oct 27, 2019

Found this amazing trail cam photo online this morning:

Black bears don't get enough respect.

Guy

Slimfinn · Oct 27, 2019

Wow, now thats something

DrMike · Oct 27, 2019

That black bear thinks he is a leopard! Truly amazing photo.

Elkman · Oct 28, 2019

Thats really amazing!!! I never would have thought. Was that a recent photo guy, the fawn still has spots, very unusual for this time of the year?.

Guy Miner · Oct 29, 2019

Elkman":2xqmgadv said:
Thats really amazing!!! I never would have thought. Was that a recent photo guy, the fawn still has spots, very unusual for this time of the year?.

I just found it online - not my photo. So... I don't really know.

Guy

Guy Miner · Oct 29, 2019

Also - at first I just assumed the little bear was climbing up the tree with the fawn....

Somebody on another forum commented - and well - maybe the bear raided the tree and took a fawn that a cougar had stashed? But - I hadn't heard of them stashing kills in trees either.

Darned if I know! Just really interesting.

Guy

efw · Oct 29, 2019

Yep there’s a lot paid upon wolves & coyotes but I don’t think that black bears get their due when it comes to fawn predation.

That’s a crazy pic. New Jersey cat ladies can’t quite picture that like we can; one cuddly creature eating another in so brutal a fashion.

Happens all the time tho eh??

coop22250 · Oct 30, 2019

A few years back they did a moose calf mortality study here in AK. The black bears were a lot higher the cause vs others. I don’t know if it is just higher populations, more overlap of territories, or what the cause is.

I have yet to begin to procrastinate

salmonchaser · Nov 1, 2019

Similarly with elk, bears are hell on calves. Local ODFW biologists claims calf mortality/bears is the reason for a spring bear season.

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