Being hunted by a polar bear! For two days this bear stalked the building.
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2024
- Working in the northern regions of the arctic, you inherit the risk of having polar bears present. At many of these remote locations, you have to be flown in to a base and you will spend up to a six week rotation there. With next to no human activity, the bears have no habituation and will deem us a threat or a food source so it is imperative to having wildlife specialists on location. During the summer months, there are many summer work projects that put staff on the landscape with bears that are summering at these particular locations. As you get later into the season, the summer work concludes and only essential tasks are done outside as you push into the winter months. It is at this time the bears really start to stir as they await the ice to return to the seas and oceans so they can start supplementing their diets with seals. Attracted by the smells and movement will have the bold polar bears summitting to the basecamps to investigate the possibilty of getting food of any kind prior to the ice being in, including human.
Where this video was taken, I spent five weeks there as the bear monitor, coming across several bears without issue. I can honestly say that with polar bears there is a totally different vibe, they watch and study us, they are trying to learn our schedule and are waiting for a mistake to be made.....we are on the menu. While many found this disturbing and were always uneasy, it fascinated me and made it all that more clear, we are not the top dog on the landscape. Enjoy some footage shot by a few colleagues of mine. - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
Now that is scary. Imagine having a 10 feet tall beast waiting for you to come outside.
This was still a younger bear, no where near ten feet....so imagine one 2-3 feet taller.
What an amazing animal.🐻❄️
Yes they are!
Up at the Prudhoe Bay oil fields every door has a very strong cage outside. When you leave a building you stop in the cage and take a very good look around BEFORE you exit the cage.
People really don't understand. Living in a big city in the south with no threat of an animal that really sooner eat you, they just don't get it. Plus, being the arctic, buildings are up on piers and stilts, having to glance under a building for a sleeping or waiting bear, there are so many things one has to do to insure their safety.
That would be so scary! But I still can't help feeling sorry for the poor hungry bear, it's a tough life for sure, I can't even imagine...
The issue is we humanize the situation and add emotions. In many regions, (most), the polar bears are thriving. All bears are designed to go through this feast and famine cycle. Despite the grim picture they like to paint of bears starving to death because of climate change and reseeding ice, they are incredibly resourceful and in most cases in very good health. Instead they like to follow a old male in his 20's who has come inland to lay down and die to promote their messaging.
Thanks for the insight, good to know they're doing well in the wild@@TheBearGuyCanada
@@TheBearGuyCanada I definitely know I do this with any animals I watch-bears, elephants, gorillas, chimps, some baby rhinos-I understand the reasoning of what happens to wildlife and this is their cycle of life, that's why I could never do a job like yours-as great as it is, I would get too emotionally attached to the ones I was tracking or trying to help. Thanks for the videos.
WOW and WOW, a real live nightmare, thanks Bear Guy Stay safe 🤯
Thanks, glad you liked it!
@@TheBearGuyCanada Hi are you still there ?
She even flattened the tires as if to say.. “ Whenever you do come out… you won’t be leaving!” Very scary indeed!
Very limited roads, a few km to the water lake, to the airstrip, storage.......and that is it. So leaving is not an option, lol
@@TheBearGuyCanada Please be safe.🙏🏻
YIKES! Talk about being sniffed out! Thank you for sharing.
you are welcome!
WOW and WOW!! A real live nightmare! Thank you Bear guy, stay safe!🤯
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I read somewhere (Paraphrasing): Black - fight back, brown - stay down, white - good night.
Amazing footage, Bear Guy! Merci 🐻 🤍
Thanks! As for the sayings, absolutely. Not all polar bears will hunt man, but the ones that decide to, there's no stopping them.
Aww it just wanted them to give him some honey! 🍯☺
She would of loved some honey. I was quite shocked to see bees in some of these locations, such a short season with limited vegetation.
Thank you for sharing!
My pleasure!
Telling the annoying co-worker who steals your lunch from the fridge, is rude etc,
"Ya the bear is gone. Karl just went outside for a smoke break..."
Wow that is harsh, lol.....and his name was DAVE! RIP, lol.
Very fascinating explanation as always!
Glad you enjoyed it
Horror movie vibes 😯🐻❄️
Scary AF
No fear, they are the dop dog on the landscape.
Thanks! Bear Gut good info to know 🐻❄
Glad to help
That is so wild.
Sure is!
Exciting, too, watch live...
Thankfully, bear was unable to pry anything open...
SCARY EXCITEMENT
Thanks for watching!
You need a bear specialist to fire a warning shot?
Warning shots without a pain stimuli of some sort eventually has the bear tuning out the shot. The idea is having someone on scene who understands bear behavior and actually teaches the bear for the next time it encounters a human, the interaction is less dangerous.
Where's the 🐻 guy been
It's not scary they All gotten smart, and tired of being hunted
Do the bear specialists shoot non-lethal shotgun rounds at the bear to scare it away? Like the polar bear agents in Churchill or Bearman in Mammoth Lakes, California. 🐻❄
Where’s those electric door mats? That would’ve have sent him packing
There's a lot of things that could be improved on to insure safety. But convincing a suit that is based out of Ottawa that particular gear is needed usually falls on deaf ears. It doesn't factor in to them, and budgets, budgets, budgets.
Are there villages???
I imagine villager go missing, plus there houses, wack , bear in❗️❗️❗️
This video is from a north warning site, so very isolated and with very few souls on site. We do overlap with some of the communities and everyone is pretty alert when a bear is spotted.
SMITH AND WESSON 500
Whoa! No hesitation to try and get in. That is frightening. Do Polar Bears hibernate? I mean they live in snow all the time, how do they know when winter is like brown and black bears?
They do not hibernate. When the ice disappears, as does the snow they venture inland to summer. Polar bears live in areas where winters are harsh, and summers are mild to warm, with thaw and melt. They bed down on ice and remaining snow that is inland and do very little. Only a female digs a den and that is to have cubs and for their protection.
@@TheBearGuyCanada thanks , my granddaughter seen the snow in your video with the polar bear and said "shouldn't she be sleeping now" I was like "uh I don't know so let's ask the Bear Guy".
Is ANYONE honestly surprised over these polar bear reactions...??? Dont forget your bear spray!! hah.. It is simply high priced human seasonimg.
Bear spray is an amazing tool, works on polar bears great. Unfortunately there isn't a ton of it in the arctic due to transportation of dangerous goods. Over the last four years I have seen more and more bear spray being carried in many of the communities in the north. I 've talked to several people that have bear spray stories while on hunts, and the buy in and support for having it is growing, which is a good thing.
Love bears and they have to eat like us. We can go to the grocery store and buy meat. He’s gotta go looking for it.
Not quite: bears do not have to eat "like us". Brown bears have a significantly higher proportion of plant matter in their diet than most humans do, something like 90-95% vegetarian. On the other hand, they can eat extremely rotten carcasses they find with no adverse effect, stuff that no human would even consider touching and that would cause serious illness if a human would go ahead and eat from it. Polar bears, on the other hand, are not only hypercarnivores, but cannot even subsist on just _any kind_ of meat. If a polar bear ate nothing but humans, it would fall ill for lack of nutrients. Polar bear metabolism requires lots and lots of fat, so they need flesh rich in fat, like seal or whale, including the blubber. And Giant Pandas are yet another story: they eat almost exclusively bamboo - preferably bamboo shoots, or bamboo leaves at times of the year where there are no shorts.
Then again, probably you are right, and grocery stores specializing in the nutritional requirements of bears don't exist.
Even though a brown bear likely wouldn't object to *anything* they might find in the food department of a supermarket... 🐻
From what kind of material are the doors made? I guess the windows are normal glass, right?
Nothing is normal up there. These doors and windows are made to sustain the worst weather. The doors are all heavy steel with double entry and special handles that highly safeguard the buildling from being penetrated by a bear.
And did you do anything to discourage her, Like firing bear bangers? I would think that it would be prudent to prevent bears from feeling comfortable around human habitations, not to mention the danger of having her hanging around.
😱😱😱 Holy Moly Bear Guy!! How AWFUL!!! 🐻❄️
That all depends on the person, I wish I was there. The staff had to lockdown and wait her out, I believe because of my experience and understanding of bear behavior I could of worked with this bear that would deter her from thinking this was where she wanted to be. In most cases in these situations a wildlife specialist is flown in and the bear is dispatched. My approach teaches the bear what is acceptable when there is human-bear encounters and keeps it alive and on the landscape.
Did you not give it a cookie???
I don't share cookies! LOL, they're like gold up there!
YIPES!!!!!
The boys were a little uneasy with how persistent she was.
Is the bear monitor the only one allowed to have a weapon?
Usually, but others can be assigned one. But usually the others have tasks to concentrate on, and by that theory, the bear monitor is never to put down the weapon or get complacent. He is their last defense.
Kinda sad that the bear is wasting time and starving
I hope he gets food soon..poor hungry bear.
The issue is we humanize the situation and add emotions. In many regions, (most), the polar bears are thriving. All bears are designed to go through this feast and famine cycle. Despite the grim picture they like to paint of bears starving to death because of climate change and reseeding ice, they are incredibly resourceful and in most cases in very good health. Instead they like to follow a old male in his 20's who has come inland to lay down and die to promote their messaging.
@@TheBearGuyCanada Thank you for explaining this..I was unaware!
Go get her lunch 🦌is there any moose around
Nope....not there, and only 2 caribou on the island at that time, lol.
@@TheBearGuyCanada , That's slim pickens, wrong island. Uber 🛫 eats from the main land, Sad. Maybe she'll get a 🦭
@@TheBearGuyCanadaPoor Caribou and Bunnies. They too would have to have their heads on swivels. It's a Dog eat Dog world out there.
she comes to doors and windows because someone was feeding her that way -not because she is stalking and wanting to eat people !!!!!!!
Absolutely not! No one was feeding her. Bears often sit back and watch, the one door was the smoking door and the other was out of the shop, high traffic doors. Lookiing in the window was because she saw movement as staff watched her. Not sure what your background is with polar bears, but it obvious not much. These bears will hunt man, ask anyone who works or lives with them.
@@TheBearGuyCanada nope -i know that bear and she told me!