A Montana researcher wanted to find out if an electrified deer carcass could serve as a grizzly bear deterrent.The findings weren’t surprising for the bear gurus out there: grizzlies are very persistent.
Posted on 12/21/2017 10:33:20 AM PST by w1n1
A Montana researcher wanted to find out if an electrified deer carcass could serve as a grizzly bear deterrent.
The findings weren’t surprising for the bear gurus out there: grizzlies are very persistent.
The purpose of the electrified deer was to see if this would protect the hunters game kills, hoping to minimize bear-human encounters.
Unorthodox, sure, but it could work. Except, this fearless grizzly is like the honey badger, and the honey badger don’t care if his meal is hooked up to a car battery – he’s gonna eat it anyways. See this strange electrified deer grizzly bear experiment video here.
Damn thing went after the battery. Just luck? Or intelligence?
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Hahahahahaha!
It is either:
“Hey. This black thing over here smells like filthy human hands! GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!”
“Hey. That’s one of those black things inside the front of their car that I always see them messing around with when I catch them with their heads down! GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!”
“Hey. That rancid deer meat sure does have a tang to it. Not sure if I like it...”
MIT graduate bear.
Hehehe...the equivalent of me giving a fist pound to some piece of electronic equipment that doesn’t work quite right!
Years ago I put cameras out to get bear photos. They would commonly fiddle around with the camera, pull it off the tree, chew on it, kind of the way dogs get into things and cause a big mess. Somehow it attracted their interest. So it’s probably within their behavior pattern to inspect and wrestle with any aspect of their environment that feels unnatural.
Useless experiment. All it shows is typical dumb research by a dumb researcher who sucks at making a decent electrification setup.
Electrifying a carcass deters scavengers, who could have guessed that?
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