Banff’s famous grizzly bear’s close call with moving train caught by local filmmaker
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- Bears have emerged from their winter dens along Canada's Rockies in Alberta, including two of Banff National Park's most famous grizzlies.
A local filmmaker was able to catch a glimpse of one of them, but he also caught its incredibly close call with a moving train.
As Heather Yourex-West explains, it highlights a long-standing threat to the safety of these majestic animals.
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The definition of so close has changed apparently
Yep let's see how long your vaccination takes to get to work on you
So has the definition of "news!"
seconds to spare? this was like the zamboni scene in Austin Powers.
Or the steam roller scene in "A fish called Wanda".
You go lay your head down on some tracks looking for some food
Or the marching band in The Naked Gun.
Man, that was sooooooooo funny. Start writing comedy.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That was a steamroller. You're thinking of Deadpool.
Horn blows... bear leaves... tick... tock... tick... tock... tick... tock... train finally shows up. Whew that was a close call...
Close call??? Click bait.
Close call, CLICK BAIT.
The bear has more sense than many would give him credit for
That bear has been hit like 3 times, he's the boss for a reason
How? He's already been hit several times yet continues to hang out by the train tracks.
@Kaisersozze well, he's still around so that says something.....and the grain is like sugar.....they get hooked on it
my thoughts also. maybe setting up several grain feed plots further from the tracks will help them forgot the track snack
@theclimbingchef this was split lip not the boss
Wondering if they would have worried that much about a homeless senior
Depends...what is the citizenship status of said senior?
@@milesarcher735 White straight male. NO
@@milesarcher735 Doesn't matter if the Senior was Canadian "they" wouldn't have cared.
They would care if it was any type or margarineized.
This is canada so... probably not!!!
That was far from a close call...... Tons of time.
That was nothing close about that encounter… just saying
That's not a close call.he had 10 seconds.
More like 20 secs.
💟🐻🐾 Wow! Beautiful filming of this Beautiful Grizzly Bear 🐻 ❤ Such good timing and A smart Grizzly 🐻🐾
Amazing encounter! So glad the bear escaped harm
How are people in the news business so stupid? like actually all dumb. "by just seconds" and it was literally like 10 seconds.
Actually it was figuratively 10 seconds...it was literally 20 seconds...
Not that you aren't intelligent enough to simply count the seconds on the video playback timer...
Bottom left corner...just wiggle your mouse if it isn't there...
I almost got hit by a car crossing the road.
*traffic light goes through 2 cycles before car comes*
Just west of Banff, at Golden B.C. has to be one of the most depressing murder zones for wildlife in Canada. I once witnessed 3 elk hit by a train, leaving nothing but a gross mess of what was once living creatures. Highway 1 between Golden and Donald is like an butcher shop for deer, elk and bear.
Fresh meat. Thanks for the heads up.
Usually I am looking for road kill, but maybe I should start checking the train tracks.
Just literally yesterday I cleaned up half a grocery bag of wheat from the tracks. The birds won't eat it , but the bears do. They luv peas.
And if we have to do a speed limit in the parks they should by law reduce the trains speed also. That thing was moving.
But the bear was playing chicken. Those tracks vibrate a long ways . He knew.
I agree. A reduced speed would give the young bears the extra time to become train aware.
Spilled grain from trains attracts the bears.
Why are the grains spilling?
@@somcana
Grain can leak from older train cars. The doors don't fit perfectly.
I like how you guys speed the video up when the train came. Totally sensationalized what goes on there. He moved out of the way of multiple trains and has done so for years. Also real smart posting the exact location of where they come
If you call 22 seconds a close call. It wasn’t like a split second just before potential impact.
"seconds to spare" ?
25 seconds. Soo clooose. 😂
All the comments saying "that wasn't close", are ignoring the fact they state later that for 20-25 bears a year it was more than close, it was deadly. Would you all have been more pleased if it had been "more "close, or if he got hit?
They purposely added dramatic language to make the incident seem closer than it actually was. Considering the sheer number of comments mentioning this very thing, I was wondering where your wild assumptions are actually coming from?? Bear heaven??
The video title says, "close call", and the narrator claims "seconds to spare"...when it was closer to a half minute. There's nothing more to it than that...virtue signal elsewhere...
The bear was big, the train was bigger.
The Boss doesn't run from trains, trains run from the Boss.
That's not close😂.
lol
Thank you for screaming at the bear .. no doubt it caught his attention... Such a gorgeous area and such a beautiful bear... 💜
The bear was home and flossed his teeth before bed by the train rolled by.
that bear could have walked up town got a timmies and back before that train hit it
Or a Tourist. It could have had a Tool of a Tourist!
The bear felt the train way before you heard it. They don't need your help
seconds to spare, I am glad I came here go see others laughed like me at the attempt at "drama", I sat waiting for this train and had to laugh so hard....well I guess if there is no news, you make some news :)
Wonder if there are any proposals out there to make tracks safer for wildlife.
They are as much as can be. They have slow orders and know certain locations but animals do get hit
We could move the wildlife crossing signs to safer locations maybe?
😂
I think so. I visited Kenya last year and they have national parks with wild life, so they created raise railway lines with strong pillars rasing the rail above the ground to spare encounters with animals.
The cost to bear/animal proof the tracks would be insane and pretty much useless. Grizzly bears can climb and can easily dig under fences. It's one thing to design and build bear proof garbage cans, it would be quite another to block migration routes across a 100 km stretch of the Rockies. Far easier and cheaper to build better grain cars
Let's just stop shipping grain & other delicacies by train the grizzlies/bears like! The Bears/Grizzlies can eat Tourists instead!
Do people really think the bear wouldn't hear/sense an incoming train from miles away? lol
Im absolutely baffled why no one has designed "cow-plow" styled Airbags on the front of trains for animals and people
Because that's going to protect you when 10,000 tons of steel, slams into you at highway speeds??
That bear would have moved without that guy there they are a lot more aware than we are
They are huh. That doesn’t explain why They’re killed every so often. Animals know by instinct what other Animals They have to fear. However, since any machine is not a creature of nature, They don’t fear it.
Didn’t l hear that a number of Bears have been killed since the year 2000.
Fergieman
Read statistics…bears and many other animals are killed by trains
Even humans …get educated
@@Corvacarnight time is a bigger problem when all they see is the headlights but can’t see the incoming object, deer and moose kills are far more common at night, anyone driving a car in Canada at night will have a deer encounter at some point, lots of times they don’t move, I nearly ran down a herd of moose in northern Ontario slammed my brakes and stopped in time, they weren’t moving had to slowly drive around them.
@@CorvacarI killed one around 2011 out there. The bear got caught in a place where there were steep cliffs on either side so it couldn't get off the track. That sucked.
Wow, I had a close call with 60 cars and a plane today
While I'm glad for the outcome, even the bear knew he had almost 20 "seconds to spare"...
They need to make the trains slow down a LOT in those spots that they know the bears frequent, besides the horn blowing.
Just be glad that when the bear got off the track, he didn't get off your side of the track and head toward you.
i wish they will installed a sensor that act as an alarm sound to scare the bear as a train comes close or if they step on the track..... please save the bears!
He can feel the reverb thru the tracks.....the alarm won't do anything......the reward for free food is too much for them to resist
There’s about 50,000 km of track in Canada. Even if we’re super mega generous and say maybe 20,000 km don’t need sensors due to where they are in the country, that still leaves 30,000 km of track that needs sensor. That doesn’t seem economically feasible, especially because the sensors would have to be maintained. That cost would come down to public to pay…
@@kellyb3211 "That cost would come down to public to pay" Can't be any worse than the millions we send to help fuel foreign wars! Lol
Humans before stupid bears!
@@dive2drive314 How about the Tourists & photographers with big ash photo lenses making a business of filming bears pay for it?
Wasn't close at all!
I almost got hit by a train the other day in Newfoundland. Its a good thing the tracks got taken up in the 90s, because i only had seconds to spare.
It's a protection for bears from humans poaching just to take a gallbladder for medicine.
- Thanks, China🇨🇳 !
Reporting for clickbait
Thank goodness.
Global News, anything for a story... Such a Close Call.. NOT!!! Must be a slow news day/week for Global?!
10 to 12 seconds. Need remote control flash bangs mounted on the lead engine. Like the ones use at airports to scare birds. Just an idea.
Anyone else expecting the train to be going the other direction?
That was a horn, not a whistle
Nobody is from Banff. Nobody.
lol
The solution is simple stop using trains. Or stop eating grain. Or maybe put a sign up by the tracks "No Grizzlies!"
Time to bring back cowcatchers?
I had a dream last night that a crazed albino brown bear was driving around town with an automatic weapon shooting at everyone while her cubs roamed the streets.
That’s not close for A GRIZzley Bear 🐻
You should look up what close mean
They've fenced the #1 to prevent wildlife from harm. Is there a reason why the tracks can't be fenced?
I was thinking this, too. I wonder if it isn't because it would split the park and reduce the size for animals that don't fly or climb easily. I wonder if overpasses could be made over the tracks, fenced as well, specifically for the animals, along the tracks in certain spots.
Compliments to the train company! I don’t think anybody down here in the US would do that. Mean they’re also freaking greedy but thank you for changing your cars and thank you for blowing the horns. Somebody up there has compassion that’s Rarity these days! God bless all!
All those goods that are transported and we depend on for commerce etc. All these posters on here about saving the bear want their lives to be easy.
As opposed to you wanting your own, to be difficult??
Pretty sure we can have bears, and commerce...if we put in a little extra effort.
Amazing moment 😮😮
So close! Waits 5 minutes...
Why not drop hot pepper powder off the train within Banff! Simple
Yes, get them accustomed to hot cayenne pepper mixed with food, then the bear sprays will be like seasoning to them,...real intelligent. Thank God you're not in charge.
"close call" lol who the hell thinks of this lame news
That bear had plenty of time he knew what he was doing it probably isn't his first time either just saying but I'm glad you got off the track he was beautiful ❤️
Bear-ly missed him!! lol
That's a huge bear
Ya coming from the same people who would have no trouble havin an abortion.
Just glad the bear is safe regardless of how many seconds to spare it still could of been tragic. GOD🙏keep that bear safe until you decide in his old age to meet his maker.
Global News, Looks like trains are going to become endangered.
That was not close at all tho
Simple…..reduce train speed through these areas enough they can stop for them or the animal has time to move easily, and as for grain spillage…clean it up frequently and or add some sort of bitter flavour to the spillage until it can be cleaned.
Blowing the whistle and how about a speed limit through national parks like 50 km.Maybe,maybe not!
How about fixing the gaps in the train cars so the grain isn't escaping??
Tje bear had nearly a minute. Where didnu get seconds?
THIS …is news?!
Yeah that was close, they can not judge distance and time at all.
what a joke
Of course as grizzly hunting stopped so more bears.
Let’s try and create drama…….!
No you want a close call look at people vs train
15 seconds is not close.
15 seconds might be close for milk toast CBC, but out here in the real world it is not close. That must mean every car in Toronto making a left turn is close to a collision.
However, give that train horn operator a donut, and coffee for using the horn.
It's Global, and it was more like 22 seconds, lol.
@@venus_envy It was so boring, and long I forgot who made the video.
Many many bears have been killed by trains in BNP. The population are unable to recover so to see a bear in that area is a lucky encounter. Don’t come to Banff to see bears cause the train has killed them all !
It was close, you all saying not. I doubt he has perception of time or speed the train is traveling. Besides he probably has never been slapped by anything yet that he might fear. You know if he didn't feel the ground he wouldn't have moved.
I don't think that was a beary close call at all. 🤷
The Boss? You need to walk away gently.
The worst mauling by a grizzly bear , in British Columbia , was at Liard Hot Springs . Nobody had a gun , except for an American . Can't remember just how many were killed that day , let alone maimed !!! Christ . The American had a handgun . Killed the rogue bear . Saved many lives , but was jailed for many years after for processing a handgun . In Canada ... Crazy life ....
Pity think of the man woman and dog that died and the bear spray was empty
Ok bears aren't stupid he'll move out of the way faster than you ever could even if he was dead asleep.
Holy hell 25 bears nailed by trains??? Crazy world
If things get out of control, the animal will be put down to save a curious human. Why are you deliberately risking his life?
Fricken rail companies
What do you suggest they do? Just stop moving all of the commodities that make modern society possible?
To create a feeding spot these cars must leak so much grain they arrive empty. Heaven forbid photographers are ..... dumping grain for those photos. Pretty random spot to set up and take pictures of nothing and coincidentally get this "news worthy" media exposure
Each loaded car contains around 100 tons of grain, there's a lot to go around.
I have no sympathy for Grizzlies after what happened to Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend. They are not wonderful, peaceful animals, but brutal predators.
Set up fencing to keep them off the tracks.
Maybe slow the trains to a crawl through that area….add an hour to the trip big deal…
It was not unlucky
Why is everyone saying that wasn't close? That was literal seconds. What do you want a close call to be, the train nipping the bears butt?
Bears like all animals can hear a train long before a human, this bear was out of the way long before the train arrived.
Does split lip growl with a lisp?
Asking for a friend 😊
😅
CN and CP rail can do better , but it’s not in their budget…Please guys , do more to save and protect these majestic animals
The rail companies could do a better job of keeping their rail car bottom hatches from leaking grain out along the tracks. That’s what attracts the wildlife for the most part. Maybe the idea is that if our narcissistic leader and his half-witted helpers can completely break our country that people will go out there and scavenge the kernels of grain and that’ll keep the bears from getting hit.
Lol tons of time to spare.
I visited Kenya last year and they have national parks with wild life, so they created raise railway lines with strong pillars raising the rail above the ground to spare encounters with animals.