Posted on 05/18/2013 1:56:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Want to know why you should always avoid big brown grizzly bears? Well this terrifying footage gives you an idea.
Nature photographer Brad Josephs was filming for a BBC special in the Alaska peninsula when the hungry mammal decided he wanted a bit of privacy.
The bear inspects the camera (Picture: YouTube / Brad Josephs) The filmmaker hoped to capture some close-up shots of the bear but got a little more than he bargained for when the animal attempted to swallow his expensive equipment.
‘When using a GoPro to capture unusually close footage of grizzly bears for the Great Bear Stakeout for BBC, I had a young bear actually chew on the camera,’ he explained.
The grizzly chomps on the camera (Picture: YouTube / Brad Josephs) ‘Amazingly there was no damage to the camera! Some of this clip appears in the film Great Bear Stakeoout on BBC and Discovery Channel.’
‘The bear only gently mouthed the camera, and didn’t even put a dent in it!’ he added on his website. ‘Obviously the card was fine, and I actually used the camera many more times.’
The animal features in the BBC’s Great Bear Stakeout (Picture: YouTube / Brad Josephs)
The clip, entitled A grizzly ate my GoPro!!!, has already racked up more than 200,000 hits on YouTube.
Yikes! LOL.
Now, THAT is a dedicated shutterbug!
Re#22. I got a grouse like that once. Landed on my head so I turned my 12 gauge around and blasted him with both barrels. They call me baldy now. When I can hear them./BS’in.
That camera took a LICKIN and kept on CLICKIN...
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