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Big cat and Bear tale
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 (11-24-2015, 11:24 PM)GuateGojira Wrote: @ Here you go @Guate Its said by few, obviously no way of proving but thats what is said Wild at Heart Images-Wildlife and Nature Photography ""Old Scarface" Here's another photo of Scarface taken this past Saturday on Dunraven Pass. Both Steve and I thought he looked better than we'd seen him look in a long time, especially for a bear his age. In my last post about Scarface, I reported that the old boy was 23 years old, but I wasn't certain so I decided to see what I could find out about him. What I found was a Yellowstone bear report written by Kerry Gunther, Yellowstone's Bear Management Program Leader, which listed Scarface's age as 21 years in 2011. During 2011, Scarface was captured and collared as part of the investigation into the Mary Mountain bear mauling. As you can see, Scarface is still wearing the same radio collar, which in other photos I can see is hanging on by a thread. Scarface was first captured and collared in 1993 for bluff charging visitors and has been collared numerous times during his long life. I've often heard that many of his scars were self-inflicted from his efforts to remove his numerous radio collars, but I have no way of knowing if this is true. Once this collar does fall off, I do hope that Scarface is allowed to live out the rest of his days in peace without a radio collar. I don't think that's too much to ask for this old bear." There are more in the comments sections on his images but who knows for sure. I would bet any amount of money that he of course got scars from frighting as well. He's an old, dominant bear, he didn't get that way by roaring. Sometimes they fight and those weapons are going to leave scars, thats a fact. |
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