It’s nature and wow can it be brutal! Now I can relate to the bears moving on. My family will argue then sit down for mamas Italian meatballs like zero happened 😂
They don't have a dominant structure, it goes by battle, today's winner can be TM challenger. They don't hold grudges they don't have a pack mentality they don't have leaders. That was a quick fight one backed down it was that simple the battle was not for dominance it was for that fishing spot he won. They could fight TM about something totally different. My point is for someone with your credentials you humanize these bears way too much. Bears do not have a dominant structure it's not about dominance it's about the objective, the female, the fishing spot, and the berry patch the winner gets the objects. These males back down for many bear instinctual reasons even when they could win. Have you ever seen a male fight to the death, I have once 5 years ago now. A male was mating with a female when another male came out of nowhere thru some brush, they started the battle while the one male was still mating. they fought to the death the challenger died in the end. it was two 800-900 lb bears, it was the craziest bear fight I have ever watched. The fight was 40 min of hard-core battle it could have gone either way. luck was the winner and the determination or Drive of the bear. The bear that one was also close to Death wounds everywhere ripped flesh all over & so tired and worn out He could not move once the adrenaline died out. I'm sure he lived but he lay there for over an hour while the female played in the water waiting to mate again. it was not the first battle I have seen start with they were mating but it was the first one I have ever seen where a big bore died. I did not think it ever got to that point but I was wrong. I saw it 50 yards away with my own eyes.
There is a hierarchy if you watch the cams. This year 32 Chunk was the dominate bear at the falls and every bear recognized that. Before that it was usually 856 and at times 747.
Wow! I thought one of the bears was going to drown. Survival of the fittest. Definitely a real life video of nature.
747 was grounded, crash landing...
It’s nature and wow can it be brutal! Now I can relate to the bears moving on. My family will argue then sit down for mamas Italian meatballs like zero happened 😂
There are not alot of salmon this week. Was there last week and there was tons jumping.
The one bear so many scars so sad!
747 thought he owned the jacuzzi.
The other bear was most likely hurt thats what I think.
I wouldn't want to get in between these 2
is that not 856 looks like him to me !
I'm terrible at identifying bears. I would have been going solely on what other people said: in this case, Mike Fitz, whose judgment I do trust.
They don't have a dominant structure, it goes by battle, today's winner can be TM challenger. They don't hold grudges they don't have a pack mentality they don't have leaders. That was a quick fight one backed down it was that simple the battle was not for dominance it was for that fishing spot he won. They could fight TM about something totally different. My point is for someone with your credentials you humanize these bears way too much. Bears do not have a dominant structure it's not about dominance it's about the objective, the female, the fishing spot, and the berry patch the winner gets the objects. These males back down for many bear instinctual reasons even when they could win.
Have you ever seen a male fight to the death, I have once 5 years ago now. A male was mating with a female when another male came out of nowhere thru some brush, they started the battle while the one male was still mating. they fought to the death the challenger died in the end. it was two 800-900 lb bears, it was the craziest bear fight I have ever watched. The fight was 40 min of hard-core battle it could have gone either way. luck was the winner and the determination or Drive of the bear. The bear that one was also close to Death wounds everywhere ripped flesh all over & so tired and worn out He could not move once the adrenaline died out. I'm sure he lived but he lay there for over an hour while the female played in the water waiting to mate again. it was not the first battle I have seen start with they were mating but it was the first one I have ever seen where a big bore died. I did not think it ever got to that point but I was wrong. I saw it 50 yards away with my own eyes.
There is a hierarchy if you watch the cams. This year 32 Chunk was the dominate bear at the falls and every bear recognized that. Before that it was usually 856 and at times 747.