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01-28-2016, 06:16 PM( This post was last modified: 01-28-2016, 06:17 PM by brotherbear )
Yellowstone Bears in the Wild by James C. Halfpenny.
Homing - Another, almost legendary behavior of bears is their homing ability. As soon as managers started trapping and moving bears, they learned that bears could quickly find their way home. One such event of his youth impressed Lance Craighead, executivec director of the Craighead Environmental Research Institute.
About 1963 an orphan grizzly cub appeared along the road in Hayden Valley. Lance doesn't remember if they even knew what happened to the cub's mother. The cub created major traffic jams so rangers trapped it and moved it deeper into Hayden Valley. The cub quickly returned and was trapped again, with the same result. Now it was constantly on the road and Lance and others feared for its life.
The cub was captured again. This time it was taken by boat across Yellowstone Lake and released on the Promontory. One week later the cub was back in Hayden Valley. Even today Lance doesn't know how the cub found its way back. Maybe it involved a visual clue such as Mount Washburn. A bear's innate homing ability is powerful and obviously develops at a young age.
Survival Skills of Bears
