The Behavior, Biology and Life of a Black Bear (Explained)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In early 2022 I was able to spend a couple hours with Andy Tri. Andy is the leader of the Minnesota Black Bear Research Project. Black Bear research in Minnesota has been ongoing since the late 1970's and early 1980's. Through Bear collaring, tons of valuable information has been gained about Minnesota's Black Bear population. Andy shares his vast knowledge of Minnesota's Black Bears and their history, and what he hopes for the future!
Video Topic Breakdown
0:43-2:35 Hibernation and Cub birth
2:36-7:20 Spring Habits, first year of Cub life
7:21-12:30 Summer Diet, preferred food, caloric intake
12:31-15:00 Fall Diet, preferred foods
15:01-21:00 Late Fall, Hunting, Bear migration
21:01-28:04 Preferred habitat, locations, Den Location and reproduction info
28:05-35:00 Bear Management, Management history and home range extension.
35:01-38:32 Harvest Success and Quota, No Quota info
38:33-42:25 Individual Bear Migration Stories
42:26-46:20 Den making Info
46:21-48:00 Bear Mortality Rates and typical lifespans
48:01-50:00 Average Bear Sizes
50:01-54:16 Hunting Popularity, How seasons and limits are set
54:17-58:32 Collared Bears, Ear tags Purposes
58:33-1:00:00 Regulated Hunting Purposes, Hunting Impacts
1:01:00-1:07:44 Baiting Benefits, Purposes, Toxic Baits
1:07:45-1:08:47 Wolves and Bear Interaction
1:08:48-1:10:30 Bear senses, smell, eyesight and hearing
1:10:31- End Viewer Questions
AWESOME VIDEO 👍
Many thanks!!!
This was interesting. I don't hunt but camp a lot in CO, NM, AR & TX and living in TX we no longer have bear hunting because they were all but eradicated in the 20th century but they now are beginning to recover some I have read.
very knowledgeable man. I learned a few things. these animals are so interesting. thank you Cody for taking the time to provide this video to us!
I learned alot from him 4 sure!
People who think black bear aren't dangerous are idiots. I had one try to kill me luckily I was armed.
It's not that they aren't dangerous, they're just typically not very aggressive.
We have property in WV...about 70 acres, but it is surrounded by about a thousand wooded acres on all sides. We have never seen a bear and have been all over the woods. I'm 55 and have run the woods since I was 3 years old. I have found odd looking scat in the past few years. I took a pic and googled it and it says North American Black Bear. My cousin put up some hunting cameras just near the property and he has captured a few bears on camera. It kind of freaks me out. I try to carry a gun or spray but I can't believe we have never seen one in person.
Absolutely enjoyed this video! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this.
I enjoy making these, since 2020 it's not been so easy with the state rules, but it's much easier now. Thx for checking it out
I sure learned a lot of things that I didn't know about bears! A ton of great facts and and knowledge shared here!! I can't wait to hear the story on bear #56!
Here it is!
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@@After5Outdoors I already watched that lol!
Then you know the story of bear 56 lol
Awesome information... Thank you!
You're very welcome
Watching you from Arkansas! Great, great, video!! We have a excellent population and it is a really exciting venue, thank you so much for providing information that educates us on such a magnificent animal!!! Hunting and conservation go hand in hand, let’s continue to show we care!!!
This is what I'm talking about!!! I am so excited to watch this this afternoon. Factual evidence not speculation super cool thank you for doing this I'd like to see you do this for all game please and thank you
There will be alot more in the future, hopefully this winter I will be able to make a wolf video.
@@After5Outdoors you have wolves too runnin about.??..where in the usa are you from bro.?
@@jackrussell1960 NW Minnesota
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
Thanks for checking it out!
I love bears and I learned a lot from your video. Thanks so much. They are fascinating creatures.
I wish more organizations and the community would do lectures or classes on this
Affter- Good night.thank you!unusual editing~talk you later!
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Awesome interview Cody! I think this has been my favorite of all time! Really great job buddy 😊🇺🇸🔥👍
Thank you. It was a really interesting discussion to be apart of!
Long but packed with a lot of information. I don’t hunt bears but i found it very informative
Ya need to start bear hunting
Great information shared! I live in Canada and noticed that big boar only showed up on our cam at night. I did harvest a decent sized boar but never did see the monster one in the day.
Colorado is no bait, no hounds and no traps, no electronic calls. That’s why they give away bear tags like candy because they know you won’t kill one
Same thing in California.... ive had luck with a hand dying rabbit call though!
@@patrioticspartan gotta get out of communist no bait states. I was looking at the stats and no bait you have a 92% failure rate
Trying to get my first bear this year! How effective is calling a bear, my good sir? Is camping a manzanita patch effective? I feel like this relies on the bear coming to my location, but that's all I got. Any tips will help me tremendously. Good luck out there and stay safe!
@@TheOrangeKou get a good call, i recommend a sceery (thats the brand)jackrabbit. Find good glassing points and if you do calling dont sit in one place too long. Find fresh bear sign, water source, food source. Bears eat a lot of foliage. Bears just do what they want. Practice those calls listen to actuall audio of rabbits. If you go out in off season try calling in foxes or coyotes for practice. Ive called in some cool animals fox, coyote, weasel, crows, and a bear lol. Ive only had one come to a call. I was given the call by my friends who have called in 3-4 bears i believe between them. Most bears are just taken out of dumb luck lmao
@@TheOrangeKou Spot and stalk has a 92% failure rate. I have only killed on bear that way and everything happened in less than 30 seconds. Your best best is to find a landfill and hunt public land around it.
Fantastic video. Really cool information. But not a great take on how easy PA or WV woods are to walk through😂 but I do understand the density of MI/WI/MN woods
Incredible video! The subject of bears is of great interest to me. I live in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, in the city of Nelson. We have a large number of bears living in our city. I don't like it, but the save the bear folks are the loudest. One park within the city was closed for months last fall as 7 bears were living there. This spring, it's closed again because a mama with her cubs are living there.
We even had a mama grizzly with her two offspring living in town. For now, the strategy is no kill. I think it might lead to a serious attack.
Hunting is the best partner in population management. Thank you for taking time to drop us a note
Yes, the good old days when a bear in town was a dead bear, and people ate the meat.
What the hell is the fun in bait hunting? Should be outlawed in every state for every species. I have nothing against hunting but using bait to slay an animal while it’s eating is reprehensible.
Wow, he's got a ton of knowledge. Cool video.
I wonder how humans would feel watching bears explain humans with human skulls on the video 😂
Guess we'll never know
Why cant you make it a law you cant shoot collared bears That seems like a big illogical waste of resources to capture and tag a bear to only have it shot. This is very unscientific. Might as well not even tag them, use the money for something more productive.
I kind of agree, however I understand that would alter the data they are trying to collect.
awesome video lots of great information
Fantastic! Loved this factual, detailed info. I was particularly interested in the mortality rate of cubs. I didn’t know more females survive than males. The reason for it makes sense.
The boys are always getting in trouble
This is an absolutely fantastic interview. I wish they'd do a second one
Maybe in the future. We can make something happen
Here listening- great info! 😊👍❤️
Thank you!
I dont think any of you know ? You are talking about spot and stalk is the only way to hunt bear... i my self have harvisted 16 bear . Only one over bait. You just need to do your homework. Spend some time actually hunting.
Thank you. I find it actually disgusting that people "hunt" bear, bobcat, lynx, and mountain lions by having your dogs chase them up a tree and then you walk up right under it and shoot it. Also where I live, it is illegal to use bait. Highly frowned upon. Hunting takes time, technique, failures, and bit of serendipity or destiny. You must use discretion, and have a respect for the animals and yourself. If you are hunting for any reason other than you enjoy it and intend to feed your family with all the meat available, then you are not hunting you are indulging yourself in misplaced coping skills or a way to give in to your character defects and insecurities without outwardly being found out.
Hey After 5 Outdoors, thanks for this great info! I love in bear country in Conifer, CO. Wondering what do our bears eat instead of acorns....pinecone?
Grass, berries, big part of bears diet is vegetation. But they will for sure target elk calves, deer fawns etc
Thank you guys for taking the time to put this together! A lot of information to soak in. A little different from Alaska bears as far as the effects on ungulates. We do have grizzly and blacks that take moose calves and in our area studies have shown that the bears take as much as 40% of moose calves every year.
I wonder if grizzlies are more prone to br carnivores then black bear?
@@After5Outdoors I think so, but they study always seemed to indicate that the behavior was learned and a few bears did the majority of predation in the study area.
These people have no clue. Black Bear takes Fawns, and other small animals raccoons even, I have seen bear fish, and hunt small game, young deer, if Elk live in the area young elk. I would say 30% of the bear diet is meat. I don't get why these so-called biolgies keep claiming bears or in this case, black bears rarely eat meat unless it's found. They will hunt. I have watched black bears hunt and kill many times in my life. If it was not that common I should not have seen it so often. I have watched a bear kill and eat a cat for fk sake. Oh, they will eat a human as well, kill and eat that is. Normally they don't go out of their way to do it, and the bear has to feel confident. but if the bear thinks it can, it will. It is rare but possible depending on the encounter. don't get me wrong, I agree black bears eat a lot of plants, nuts, berries, etc. I'm just saying they eat more meat than you think from what I have seen in my time on this earth.
Great advise, thanks for sharing
You bet!
Yes i havnt. Just seems like a cheese way to hunt.
You are aware of what assumptions make, right
@@After5Outdoors Ya you are right. I do not know. But I do know all the hunting gadgets now a days, makes it easier to hunt then it did 30 years ago. The Indians use to have to hunt a dear with a knife as initiation. I am told from Apache Indian. This is not about survival, that you need to kill the bear to eat. It's about sport mostly. And the animal should have the advantage. Remember a fact that 70 percent of the quantity of animals on the Earth since the 70's are gone. Should give them more of a respectful kill.
@omegaomtv if the govt would allow me to hunt them with a spear, I most definitely will. If I choose to eat what I harvest from the land, that is what I choose to do. If you choose to go to a grocery store, then that is your choice. I choose to be present through the process and not just eat food off the shelf
@@After5Outdoors If you do it for food then that is a different story, you are eating to survive. Most hunters don't they buy steaks in the grocery store too. I do neither, cause technology makes that so.
When there is world wide food shortages, you will see the hunters take to the woods and hunt all the animals to extinction. Our lack of respect for the environment is coming back on us very soon.
@omegaomtv hunters are the biggest contributors to conservation. I would disagree with you
Had no idea that bears can migrate! Thats so interesting!
There's so many interesting things in the animal world!
OK I have a few questions so since global climate warming our waters have been either on a increase and decrease how do bears cool down and where else do they get water when there is very little or no water
Minnesota has 10,000 lakes, plenty of water
@After5Outdoors hi so I do have one favor to ask if you do bear regulations again mention about state forest of what we can do for like our deer stands and game cameras hope you have a great day
Thanks for posting this.
I'm against hunting personally but I as a bear enthusiast wanted to hear both a biologist/ecologist and an experienced hunter's opinions on the subject.
I've heard of some hunters from other states participate in some horrible behaviors so it's nice to hear there are some sane hunters.
I've heard of people specifically targeting studies to keep ear tags as trophies and poachers basically driving up to the dept. to drop off a collar from a bear they poached at the entrance and leave before getting caught.
Targeting bears that were rehabbed in sanctuaries just to spite sanctuary workers...
Traps that cause nasty infections/amputations, slow suffering and other horror stories.
One thing I believe wasn't mentioned is males predating on cubs just so the female will enter estrus (heat) and breed.
Happens more often with brown bears but from what I've seen/heard black bears do that too.
There's bad apples in every bunch. But most hunters are pretty good
@@CordeliaAurorawhat??!! I think these are likely anecdotes you're hearing of/about, or really outlier examples, because I'm sure what you've described has/does happen, but is quite rare.
The rangers and game management do an excellent job in almost every area of curtailing this sort of behavior. I am a strong proponent of hunting and the acts you're hearing of are examples of absolute depravity.
👍✌️ from Missouri!!! :)
Do they eat ginseng
I can’t believe that your State is ignorant enough to allow bear hunting
I can't believe you are ignorant enough to say that.
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A bear is just like a labrador retriever at any age if you shoot a bear, you might as well be shooting a labrador retriever
This is the dumbest thing I’ve read on the internet all month. Well done.
No nothing in mass. If your a bear hunter in mass, your a true blue hunter.
Baiting is not a challenge. Un fair advantage for the hunter. Now a days too easy for people to kill animal. Think it should be hard to kill an animal, no easier considering there is more demand.
Obviously you have never hunted black bear then. It isn't automatic, in fact the success rate is quite low
You ever hunted for bear and actually got one on your own?
Unless they do a cull - where bears are overpopulated? May as well up the chances for man to get one...
I cannot think of a single rational reason to kill a bear that is not endangering a human.
I can think of many
Do your research and get out of your shell. Typical leftist remark
1:10:06 bruh moment
Lets say i am fishing in pa.. and a bear is near me what do i do??? A black bear and a 500 pound one!!! Am i dead?????
No a bear is just like a labrador retriever at any age. If he’s one year old he’s a one year old puppy. If you shoot a bear, you might as well be shooting a Labrador retriever.
California US, was once full of Grizzly bear...but they were killing n eating too many ppl...so..one had to go..
The bear lost..
Man should ALWAYS win..
This is not true. They were hunted for sport, trophy and fur.
@@davissmith9723 I'm talking about the grizzly that doesn't exist anymore, they were hunted out of existence BECAUSE they were ppl....don't forget, buildings, were different, dirt roads existed, not tarmac, life was different in every way...CA was once a bear heaven, & they hunted it, BECAUSE of the fact they were killing ppl...because ppl were moving into the bears territory..
The bear lost.