Posted on 09/30/2021 12:35:06 PM PDT by SJackson
A man from Laramie, Wyoming was out in the wilderness archery hunting when he stumbled across an old GoPro. After taking it back to his camp and charging it, he found several minutes of footage that appeared to be captured by a bear.
Dylan Schilt was out in the wilderness when he stumbled across the camera that he says had likely been there for several months. He described the situation on his Facebook.
“Last week when I was up archery hunting, I stumbled across a GoPro that was lost while snowmobiling. When I got back to camp I charged it up and couldn’t believe what I saw,” Schilt writes. “After four months of it sitting there, a big old black bear found it and not only managed to turn it on but also started recording himself playing with it.”
The more than four minutes of footage he shares shows what appears to be an American black bear playing with the GoPro by both batting it around with its paws as well as carrying it around in its mouth. The shots clearly show an abundance of snow, but none on the surrounding trees. What snow is on the ground appears quite wet as well, lending some credence to Schilt’s timeline of late spring.
The first minute and a half of footage seems to show the bear pushing the camera around with its paw and attempting to pick it up with its mouth. It finally manages to do so and eventually turns the front of the camera towards its face, resulting in a rudimentary video selfie of sorts.
There are portions of the video that show extreme close-ups of the inside of the bear’s mouth, likely the best look many will ever get of a black bear’s rather impressive teeth. Eventually, the bear clearly loes interest in the GoPro and the final few seconds of the footage show the GoPro resting peacefully, unattended.
“Hands down the craziest thing I’ve ever found!” Schilt concludes.
It is unclear if the bear at any point thinks the GoPro is food or is simply curious about a device that is unlike any other found naturally in its surroundings.
Animals and cameras have an interesting history, especially if it is the animal that captured the footage. For example, in 2011, a monkey took a photo of itself with photographer David Slater’s camera. The photographer then spent years fighting a copyright battle in court over the photos. Even though the United States Copyright Office stated in 2014 that animals can’t own copyrights and a judge ruled the same in 2016, Slater spent years fighting in court for official ownership and eventually went broke doing so.
Bears take selfies too. The video at the link is about 4 minutes.
I sense a new GoPro ad coming soon..............
I wonder if the owner registered it with the manufacturer?
Might be interesting to see what happened to him.
Waiting for the bear pack group selfie from that camera!
Support your right to arm bears, with cameras of course.
I thought the Hunter was Hunter Biden, since he is always losing stuff. Of course it still could be Hunter Biden’s GoPro. 😋
Well, now we get an idea of what it looks like when a ‘big ol’ black bear’ is about to have you, for lunch....amazing view of his mouth, teeth, claws....great footage....
https://www.facebook.com/1312546794/videos/379238563747845/
I thought the same, but this story does not seem to involve hookers or cocaine, so I think it’s about some other guy ...
The former owner of the camera can be found in isolated piles of bear poop.
Saw the title and thought this was about Biden.
Better production than many YT and Tiktok vids I've seen...
Nah. The bear is smarter than Hunter Biden. And Joe Biden. And Kama Harris.
Put together.
Top picture:
“I’m ready for my closeup.”
Multiple previews of the last thing that you’ll ever see if you cross one of these guys at close range. :>)
Damn, but this bear needs a good teeth cleaning!
>> animals can’t own copyrights
That’s a hilarious concept to debate.
But if it was his then the bear would be part of lewd sex act.
Or his drug pusher.
I think we all thought it was Biden.
Who knows? He has some odd proclivities. I once watched 5 minutes of him prancing around naked with a prostitute in the room, smoking crack.
A son to be proud of. /s
I am glad I wasn’t the only one eyeballing that title and thinking “Okay, I have heard some kinky things about him, but...”
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