Saintgrizzly - Dec 23, 2005 12:51 pm - Voted 10/10
Close?Were you as close as it looks? Or were you using a telephoto lens, or zoomed the picture?
kyledod - Dec 23, 2005 1:53 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Close?I was using a telephoto lense so we were not quite as close as this picture would suggest, however it was still very close. Since he was right next to the road as it wraps around Going-to-the-Sun Mountain we were still in the car when this picture was taken. If we would have run into a bear at this distance on the trail, I would have grabbed the bearspray (instead of the camera) and backed away slowly probably not getting this close-up of a picture. This bear seemed indifferent to slightly annoyed at our presence and I noticed a red tag in its ear, so I wonder if this bear has been a problem before, or maybe the park service (or other associated scientists) are just tracking it? It seems now we should have reported this sighting to the Park Service, but we did not.
Jerry L - Jan 2, 2006 8:22 am - Voted 10/10
Re: Close?Nice bear shot. I encountered one bear while in the park, but none of my pictures were nearly this good.
BobSmith - Apr 5, 2006 1:32 am - Voted 10/10
Very nice!I love seeing bears in the woodlands. That looks like a very healthy black bear.
kyledod - Apr 5, 2006 2:09 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Very nice!Thanks. Compared to other black bears I have seen, this one was large. It also appeared well prepared for the coming winter (took the picture in October).
FlatheadNative - May 19, 2008 1:33 am - Voted 10/10
Nice bearYou can actually distinguish between a bigger bear and a smaller black bear by looking at its ears. If the ears appear to be small and short you are looking at a big bear because it has a large head, the reverse is true as well. Big looking ears equals little bear with a little head.
In the case of this bear I would say he is on the medium to big side.
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