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A Sandhill Crane Versus a Black Bear
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2015
- A black bear encounters a family of sandhill cranes. The outcome is not what you might expect.
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Years ago on the Dick Cavett Show a rancher told a story about finding a nest of sand hill cranes in a flood. He took the home and put them under his hens. When they hatched they imprinted and followed him everywhere. One day months later, they followed him to the top of a hill behind his house. He was wondering what was off about them. He realized that they didn't know how to fly away when the season changed. So being a rancher used to caring for critters, he flapped his arms. The birds looked at each other and him. Then they flapped their wings. He started running down the hill flapping his arms and the birds ran too. Their flapping put them into the air and they learned to fly. The rancher flapped into his yard surrounded by cranes just in time to meet his Banker (there to discuss a loan)who just drove up. 😄😄
That is hilarious! Thank you for taking the time to tell us. Hope everyone reads it.
Just one more reason to appreciate Sandhills Cranes!
That was an amazing encounter between the black bear and the crane! Excellent job on the video. Thanks for your work.
Great video! I'm in FL and I've got 2 that come by everyday for a snack of cracked corn and bird pellets. As long as I'm sitting down, they will walk up to me within about 3-4 feet. I figured they were pretty good at protecting themselves with their long sharp beaks, but I had no idea they could be so ferocious!
Well I'm really jealous. I recently found out that they molt their feathers differently than most birds. Most birds molt pretty much all at once. Sandhills do it a few feathers at a time. The theory is that it has evolved that way so they can successfully defend their babies. Pretty good proof of that here.
VERY COOL! Love that you narrated this so we can know what's going on, and the footage is great! Thanks for producing a great video of an amazing event.
Big daddy Crane.lol
BIG DADDY CRAAAAANE GAAAANG
I have Sandhill Cranes in my backyard & dearly love them !!
Sharon you are lucky!
What a fantastic video! Thanks so much for sharing it with the world. We live about 90 minutes from Jasper Pulaski Nature Preserve in Indiana, a very large and traditional stopping point for the Sandhill migration. We typically have 10 to 15 thousand birds at peak in mid November. Quite a sight, and we try not to miss it each year. The cranes are my favorite creature on earth, so this video brought tears of joy and appreciation to my eyes.
I love Sandhills! Just had a couple circling above my house calling, unusual since I live in town, but their habitat is diminishing because of the ridiculous amount of subdivisions going in...😢
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing this with the rest of us!
Very informative and entertaining videos. Thanks for posting.
Beautiful video!
Thanks! I was lucky to catch it.
Bears probably thinking, wth you loony bird, lol..
Beautiful narration. Lots of people mistake these birds as geese. They are the oldest avian species on Earth.
Great footage! Thank you!
Cranes devotion to each other is total.
I believe the crane was on the "offensive" since it was the one doing the chasing.
True.
You already know where I'm coming from
Classic case of F*@K around and find out...thank you Mr. Bear and O.G. sandhill for that excellent display of "U KNOW WHAT HOOD U IN B??!!"
One tough daddy.
These birds are very social, I have walked among them in the grounds where we live in Tampa, Florida. They will walk up to you stopping as close as 15 feet away. Of course they are cautious but do not seem overly bothered by the presence of people near them. Try taking a nap during the day when these cranes are close, within a half block from the bedroom, it is guaranteed sleep will be interrupted including when windows are closed. Their call, like a variable high pitched rolling r, carries with much volume over long distances and they love to shout the call repeatedly as they stroll the ground usually as a family together.
+ML Howard You are lucky! I have never been around sandhills that will get that close to humans. I know you would like to get some sleep but their call is my favorite bird call in the world. I think I could go to sleep with them calling but I haven't tried.
Judy Lehmberg I wonder why you and others I know have difficulty getting close to animals and birds that allow me to approach within a safe range. Maybe the way I talk or how I move, I am really not sure why.
+ML Howard A few days ago my friend and I were in our retention pond and four Sandhill Cranes came up inches from us, I thought they were going to mug us. I live 40 miles North of Tampa. It was pretty cool to see them that close
ML Howard The Florida sandhills seem to be more used to humans than the sandhills in other states
I am in Tampa as well. They're just more acclimated to being near humans as opposed to these ones in the video who are obviously more Wild.
Amazing video and narrating, keep em coming if you got more.
I noticed the crane spread its wings, probably to make itself appear bigger. Then it started making noises once the bear took off, surely to alert the bear that it's still around and give him a heads-up to go elsewhere. I guess the crane watched a tutorial on what to do if there's a bear encounter whilst walking the wilderness.
Brave creature. Love the video.
He was wasn't he. Not what I expected as the bear was headed toward the crane.
That was so awesome. I would have loved to see this in person
Scottish I've spent about 40 years in and around Yellowstone and that was the only time I've ever seen it. I was very lucky. Really thought the sandhills would be killed by the bear and never even thought about what really did happen.
God I love their calls.
Me to James! They are my favorite bird call.
@@JudyLehmbergEpicNature same here :)
Awesome video thanks! Just saw my first cranes and came in TH-cam to look them up
Thank you Brian! I was super lucky to be able to catch this. A once in a life time shot. Look up crowned cranes. They are gorgeous. And blue cranes are really pretty too.
A nice reminder that we still live in the world of dinosaurs!
Never thought of it like that. Love it!
Great video
WOW! Great video, thanks for sharing. Never even heard of anything like this (not that I know much about cranes). :-)
Thank you Terry! I was completely surprised by the cranes behavior as well. There was a couple photographing the sandhill - bear encounter near me. They had never seen it before either but they knew one guy that had.
this is a neat video!!!
Our little farm in Nonesuch, Kentucky is on their flight path, so twice a year we greet them on their migration. I don't know any bird that flies higher. If you're ever at Sam's Club in Lexington, KY in early spring/late fall and hear their familiar crooning, look way, way up!
Elke I would love to see and hear them flying over. My absolute favorite bird call.
Bear had the right idea. Cranes can be unbelievably creepy. Being stalked by one of those gives you the chills.
Are you sure stalk is the right word? I've never known anyone to refer to a crane's instinct to protect its young as "creepy" as they are not predators. Now, a mountain line watching you as you walk below it under a tree and then effortlessly jumping to the ground and stealthily following you so you can't hear it, while licking its chops...that's creepy.
i love babies
Black Bear: Comes after baby cranes. Dad Crane: Peace was never an option...
The crane if the bear comes back:
So you have chosen death muda muda muda muda muda ROAD ROLLER THE WORLD now die
Bear: ⚰️
cranefu fighting
Who; has it really gotten that bad that a bear can’t take a quiet walk in the woods?
This shows that dinosaurs still live among us. That crane acted like a real velociraptor, showing it's wings and do mock charges to anything way bigger than them
she sounds like rosie o'donnell lol
All that crane can think about is taking out the bear's eyes.
Very true! When I first saw the bear swimming towards the cranes I was really worried about the cranes. I never worried about the bear. But once that male crane saw the bear I knew it needed to get the hell out of there. I was almost so busy laughing I forgot to film it. It was a once in a life time sighting.
Eyeballs might looks like 2 nice juicy wet berries. lol
It's amazing because in reality there wouldn't be a whole lot that crane could really do to that black bear.. If that Bear really wanted to he could've ripped that crane to shreds and ate the young baby cranes.. But regardless the intimidation from the crane still worked
I've seen them chase away our cats when they tried to get near them. Not surprised by this. We have lots of them walking around in my neighborhood.
Everyone I've heard from who has sandhill cranes close to their house lives in Florida.
@@JudyLehmbergEpicNature Probably because of how populated Florida is becoming. I fear it wont be long before we become over populated like California. Than what happens to such wildlife? I just uploaded a video of Sandhill cranes in my yard, and than I saw this video thumbnail on the side so i decided to check it out
@@ITIsFunnyDamnIT You are so right! Have you read Carl Haaisen? I bet you have but if you haven't I recommend him as some relief from worrying about what we are doing to this planet.
@@JudyLehmbergEpicNature I'll have to check it out
Do black bears ever get sick of taking these L’s?
The Crane took the high ground that’s why he won
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Sandhill Crane babies are called "colts", not chicks.
They can be called either. All bird babies are chicks. If you want to get specific crane chicks are called colts. I guess that is a pet peeve of mine as a biology professor. If students learned all the biological terms in a college freshman biology textbook they would have to learn as many words as if they had taken a language course. I would rather they learn biological processes than memorizing terms. You are absolutely correct. I’m sticking with chicks. P.S. I do appreciate your comment. The vast majority of comments I get are from males. It’s nice to hear from women.
That was actually an infant bear, and not an adult bear!
Bear looked young. An adult would of mauled that bird.
A big, old, tough black bear? Looked more like a bear cub.
It was a full grown adult. Maybe you don't realize that sandhill crane was over 4 feet tall.
Request for HRP*: make a hitler parody use this video plz. And the title should be: "Beartler gets attacked by Fegelcrane"
*Hitler Rants Parodies
Great video
Noelle Thank you! I got lucky. Judy