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Loading...Bear Cub Shops for Fruit
When a bear cub clambered through the vegetable display of Tatsuda’s IGA — a Ketchikan, Alaska grocery store — the young bruin was clearly afraid. Customers gathered around to snap photos and videos and wondered where mama bear was.
A shopper scooped up the cub and deposited it outside. The little one’s plaintive cry no doubt reached its mama’s ears so it is safe to assume they were reunited. From the size of the cub, a biologist figured the bear was undersized for this late in the season.
Bears are common neighbors for people who live in communities where wild land rubs the borders of urban settlements. Most do not walk through the automatic doors of a supermarket or gobble the goods in a pizzeria, but they do rip into garbage cans and scavenge for ripe fruit. People and pets often tangle with them. When that happens, the bears are destroyed.
Bear Aware does a good job of raising awareness of how people can avoid attracting bears, but humans and bears don’t always get the message. In British Columbia alone, an average of 800 black bears and 40 grizzlies are killed every year.
Most of those deaths are avoidable. Bear Aware and Bear Smart offer resources to help communities keep bears safe by keeping them from becoming habituated to humans. The rest is up to us.
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Awww poor little bear.
thanks for sharing :)
Poor hungry little thing. A shame though that all that produce had to be thrown away.
I bet that little guy or girl thought that he/she had died and gone to bear heaven! “Mamma, you should have seen it – it was wonderful!”
god bless you little darling
Adorable, but still... how did it get in in the first place? Good thing moma did not.
AWWW! How's the heck did he get in the grocey store? Did someone let the back door open? I hope he get back to his mommy.
Awwwww! I hope he's with his mommy.
I hope the little cub is safely with his mama and thanks to person who grab her/him...:)
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