'She still lives!' Famed Yellowstone bear emerges from winter - with cubs

[turbinetree]

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399’, at 24 one of the oldest grizzlies living outside a zoo, becomes symbol of bears’ recovery in Yellowstone ecosystem

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Todd Wilkinson in Moose, Wyoming

Tue 9 Jun 2020 05.30 EDT Last modified on Tue 9 Jun 2020 11.54 EDT

Grizzly 399 stands to get a better look at the growing crowd of bear watchers while her four cubs play. Photograph: Thomas D Mangelsen/mangelsen.com

A few weeks ago, a nature photographer who lives near Yellowstone national park sent a four-word text message to Dr Jane Goodall, the British primatologist.

“Miraculously, she still lives!”

The photographer, Thomas Mangelsen, was referring to a grizzly bear known as “399”, probably the most famous wild bruin in the world. Aged 24, not only is she one of the oldest grizzlies living outside a zoo, she has also continued having cubs to a venerable age, becoming a poster child for the recovery of bears in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/09/yellowstone-grizzly-bear-399-conservation

Good thing she not in Alaska now days..................the chief megalomaniac says it just fine and dandy to blast away on bears and cubs, using donuts to kill them,..........so that they can kill off other predators as well so that it expand the caribou hunting trade............

[Submariner]

1. That's great news as long as she stays in the park

away from trophy hunting manly men with their designer long guns and fashion coordinated hunting garb.

In Alaska, the system of bush plane/float plane wilderness hunting lodges with guides will probably lead to the eventual demise of giant moose and grizzly bear. They take the so-called hunter (city slicker with a rifle) to the critter's habitat to shoot their trophy grizzly or moose, and remove another of the last of the large breeders, which will eventually reduce their sizes to that of a large dog in a few more decades of the trophy hunting mania.

The natural cycle of the caribou population vs the wolf populations have fluctuated naturally and they have regulated each others herd and pack sizes for millennia, but that is just too inconvenient for the so-called professional guides that make their money leading goobers to their favorite shooting spot. So now they gas and/or shoot wolves in their dens to crush the predator population thinking the caribou will respond immediately, instead of over decades.

Save Yellowstone.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. 399 is beautiful!

And four cubs!

[UTUSN]

3. They need to be seen:

[CatWoman]

4. let me help you out here bud :)

[UTUSN]

5. Mucho merci, haven't grasped what (besides .jpg) works - "image address" or "copy image"!1

for example:

?resize=1200%2C800

[liberalla]

11. The little ones are cute, but she's * MAGNIFICENT * !!!

[2naSalit]

6. I hope the parks

have a low turnout this year. She gets close to the road and too many go too close.

[Karadeniz]

7. 4 cubs? Is that a record?

[PatSeg]

8. Apparently it is unusual

That was the first thing I noticed. What an incredible story and wonderful photos.

[IcyPeas]

9. why are they so darned cute?

[csziggy]

10. So they can lure you for Mama to get a good swipe at you?