AN ODD BEAR JOINS THE PARTY - a new male on a female? but she still has her 2 year old cubs
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- "Another amazingly great and unquestionably rare footage from Yellowstone Videos! I just found your channel yesterday and I am blown away by the events and interactions between species of wildlife you capture on video! To get footage like this, and the other vid featuring the black and grizzly bears squabbling over that dead bison, must require a ton of time out in the bush just watching things. Thank you for your effort and dedication!" - @de1018
Yellowstone male grizzly moves in on a female but she still has her two year old cubs. This could get aggressive very quickly and go very bad for one of the two. Watch to the end and get a very unexpected surprise you don't see very often with grizzlies.
Another amazingly great and unquestionably rare footage from Yellowstone Videos! I just found your channel yesterday and I am blown away by the events and interactions between species of wildlife you capture on video! To get footage like this, and the other vid featuring the black and grizzly bears squabbling over that dead bison, must require a ton of time out in the bush just watching things.
Thank you for your effort and dedication!
Thank you so much and I very much appreciate your compliments. I really try to capture behavior of the animals. I am not a photographer trying to perfect picture to put in a gallery and I don't have the luxury of a crew or other resources NatGEO might have. Yes it does require a lot of time but it is relaxing and educational. A lot of animals repeat very similar behaviours which sometimes helps.
I think the male is a young bear that was recently ejected from his Mom and just wanted some company. He wasn’t dominant at all. Ah, nature is tough. Mom likely is an experienced bear and recognized his inexperience and behavior.
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Actually your right I forgot this happens.
@@trafficjon400I didn't even know it did...not like this. Could it be possible he was ejected by a different mother? Or would she likely instantly smell that and attack?
I was just curious as I have never seen behavior quite like this.
Black bears Grizzly bears are the most Intelligent of the wild. But, I have seen videos of Mother Sows, mostly Male Grizzly Boars' eating cubs from other Sow Bear's who lost their Cubs. usually when very hungry before hibernation or just bad evil Male Boar's the Hunters like to shoot? Mother sow bears will adopt other Cubs who lost their mother also. but , usually a relative Cub Yearling' who was weaned and forced off from Mom trained enough to be on its own but, not ready yet...👍✌ @@de1018
@@de1018 adoption is rare, it did happen at Katmai this year though, I believe the last time it happened prior was 15 years or so ago.
Congratulations, great video, great quality and great story!
Igazi békés családi idill grizzly medvékkel. 🥰🐻
I agree - it was nice to see the peaceful response.
Poor guy got cockblocked from the cubs and walked away with blue balls! 😂😂
Yea it happens in life. or the phone rings or the doorbell or the kids....
Could this male be one of her older cubs? Do mother and adult males who were her cubs mate? Thank you for great video!!
I was wondering the same things 🤔
@@deebenson135 They seemed to get along so quickly....
You are more than welcome and I really don’t know if there was a relationship. I had never seen this behavior before
@@Yellowstonewolves I haven't either and I'm from upstate NY and have never seen them act like this.
@@heather-cz8yk yes they do. It's strange to say the least. The female is always aggressive towards a male especially around her cub's.
This male bear was definitely blood related.
After all the grizzly videos I’ve seen~ this was nothing short of amazing and hardly believable‼️🌎
So many questions… Paternity, sex and maturity of cubs, is the adult male Ill or injured, female hormonal status, who is mama wagging her nose around smelling so intensely-photographers-other bears-wolves etc, itchy scratchy--do they have parasites, need to shed winter coat…??? 🤷♀️🇺🇸🫶🏼✌🏽
Thank you so much for the kind words and thank you for watching!
Read above... not ill... not injured... bears use their sense of smell like we use our eyes = constantly. Bears arecwell known back scratchers and huge dominant boars will also use this to mark territory. This young boar was just enjoying a back scratch on the rock/in the grass 👍
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Thank you very much for the information‼️ The lack of much defensive body posturing by any of them seemed curiously odd to me.
@@BeegirlsHoneyHouse definitely well known to each other 👍 Guessing, but being so relaxed and her defending the other boar I believe the boar is her cub as well.
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Yes indeed , was my uneducated speculation as well. The noses scenting their identification from afar allowed the peaceful approach and perhaps motivated his. Animals are so much more complex than we give them credit for sometimes. Seeking the presence and comfort of a family reunion, a beautiful layer to behold. ‘Oh mom it’s so lonely out here by myself, I don’t fit in anywhere. Yes I’ve learned to survive and feed myself but it makes me sad to live such a solitary life and I miss you.’
‘My son of many moons, I will always love and miss you. Relax and stay awhile’
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I live se bc 8 years where grizzly from montana come north this type situation is normal grizzly are very territorial so before saw female this could very dangerous.i saw fight with female and cubs very rough and tough.very good video calgary alberta 10:36 10:36 10:36
Thank you so much for sharing that. Thank you for commenting as well.
I love your videos but it is frustrating not knowing what areas of the park they were filmed at for reference
Hi Kris - that is a great fair question I almost never get asked. I am almost exclusively watching between Mammoth and Silver Gate in Northern Tier. Do you know that area because if you do I can give you even further detail. Best and Hope you subscribe. Let me know....
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Thank you!
@Yellowstonewolves Always wanted to go out there, since I was little! These videos are the next best thing! So... thank YOU! 😊
@@NHmountaingirl You are more than welcome. I will post more for you too.
It's dad visiting to see how his young are doing, and why the female put a quick stop to the aggressive behavior of one of the young ones.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
It's probably an older son recently weaned that Mom recognized and are siblings to the two cubs.
Nature's not complicated at all😊
Thank you for watching and commenting too. I read every one of them.
It seems exactly like that. So nice to think it may be this way.
That's quite a pickup move he's got, lying on his back and flailing around to scratch it.
agree - I tried that at the beach and didn't get anywhere.
That's not the way l pictured this happening
Wow😊❤
I agree, I had never heard of this behavior before.
The cubs are saying, you don't mess with my moms.
True and thanks for commenting.
All goes to show we do not have a complete understanding of wildlife.
Hi Jack - yes grizzlies are amazing creatures. Thank you watching, hope you can subscribe too.
the male looks young. maybe her cub from previous litter
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I would say too small, cubs normally stay 2.5 years, which would make her previous cubs 5ish.
male stranger is a cub recently kicked out by his sow mom. that's all this is. he's lonely. and those Cubs mom isn't at all threatened by him.
I wondered about that too but the ages of the cub look too close. If the boar was a previous cub that means he is at least 5 but would most likely be 6 years old right?
The young male probably was her older son from previous years who came to visit. She remembers.
I wondered that and you might be right. But how old do you think that bear is? If it is her previous son that would make it 6-7 years old to make sense. To me the bear seemed younger than that but I am no expert.
Looooove these videos!!❤
I am glad.
The cubs probably getting big enough to move on soon big enough to make challenges
I think you are right Jim. I just can't figure out this forth bear. I wonder what its relationship is to the others.
@@Yellowstonewolves The displays the male bear makes an mom makes are key she corrects the aggressive cub kinda like you’re getting in the way- I don’t think she would do that for a grown sibling but I could be wrong but those are key behaviors I’m not a bear person but take note of animal behaviors as I’m always out in the wild
Good points - thank you so much.
if that's a male he's not much older than her Cubs. I thinks he's asking for the sow to adopt him
I was looking at that too. I can't see that bear being in her previous group of cubs. Seem too young. But I don't really know either.
This is just great footage. There is no way the sow would allow her cubs near the male unless he was known/related to her. To see a grizzly in Yellowstone is special. To film four of them at the same time is over the top. Well done.
He is smaller than the cubs, I suspect he or she (no proof on sex) is newly emancipated and not 100% ready for it. Mother bear is very tolerant of the new cub. Adoption of cubs is rare, but documented at Katmai.
Interesting I had never heard of an adoption. It was fun to watch and there wasn't much aggressiveness. One of those things I may never see again.
@Yellowstonewolves yes, in Katmai this year, the mother of a 1.5 year old adopted her 2.5 year old niece. She and Her sister raised them together last year, this year the sister emancipated hers. The Aunt even let her niece nurse, which is when they called it a true adoption. I think they only saw it one other time! It's been fun to watch on the Katmai live cams.
They all demonstrated flexible social behavior
That is a great term. Thank you for posting that comment.
why do i think he is an elder brother to these cubs !!
I thought about that too but if you think about how many years have to be between them for that to happen the bear looks to you to really be related. If has a cub and raises it to the point of her next estrus then that means the bear would be 3. Then she has the second set of cubs and looking at the size of these they must be three now so that puts the first cub now close to 6. I can't see a six year old hanging out with mom still.
I guess the cubs get to a certain age. Where mom isnt a protective lunatic??. Or nearer to hibernation. Hey are you my dad? My future sparing opponent.
That is definately either another cub of hers, or a smaller cub from another family, the mom felt no threat, and normally they do if its another huge male because males do kill cubs
Great pick or make in grizzly videos?
HI trafficjon - I am not sure what you are asking. Yes these are grizzlies if that is what you are asking.
Actually the Male Bear might be an earlier relative or Adoption. Mom and cubs not sure whether they want it around ? but, Sow won't tolerate any of her cubs to fight back. it might have been temporal adoption and its known to happen but not to often.@@Yellowstonewolves
oh, Grizzly bear Sows are known to adopted a lone cub but only temporarily.@@Yellowstonewolves
The cubs are almost as big as he.
How long are cubs with their mother?
They usually stay “den” with mom for two more winters. The are born the first spring and after two more winters when they emerge on the third spring she usually pushes them away by the end of June as she then mates again. Thank you for asking and watching!
@@Yellowstonewolves Thanks ❤
Welll.... few things being missed here: 1) These are THREE YEAR OLD "cubs" - really juveniles and nearly sub-adult and the mother SHOULD be kicking them out soon. 2) The male is young, and probably 4. 3) The bears ALL - including the cubs - know each other VERY WELL, and therefore the 4 year old male is probably the mother's cub that hung around/shadowed her and these cubs for 1-2 years, and now a 3rd year. Please don't try to present this as a male trying to advance on the mother and cubs - especially when he comes up and casually scratches his back on a rock right in front of them with them not caring AT ALL = THEY KNOW HIM WELL. The mother wasn't AT ALL concerned by him, and as noted she didn't allow the larger aggressive cub (about the same size as the approaching bear) to fight = THE OTHER MALE IS HER CUB FROM 4 YEARS AGO.
So when you look at age there a few things to keep in mind - we will never know unless someone did DNA on them. Females are usually 4.5 years to breed at least. Cub are born in Jan and usually 6 months with they emerge as COYs or Cubs of the Year. After denning a second year they are called one year olds and are about 18 months. After the second denning they are called two year olds and really almost 3 or 2.5 YO. It is rare but they could have denned a third year and be 3.5 year olds. Still best guess with these is that they are 2.5 and not quite full full grown. For the boar to be her off spring. He would have to be 5, making her almost 10 years old. I don't think she is that old but I wouldn't really know for sure any more than anyone else. We never will know what their relationship is but grizzlies are not family animals nor run in packs so even this smallest of family was neat to watch. Do they all know him well? Well that is your guess and we will never really know. If it is true that is still odd and rare to watch.
@@Yellowstonewolves @Yellowstone Video Mmmm... Wellll, I just ain't the kind of lifelong Montana backcountry horseman, hunter, guide, Biologist, surgeon and hunter who isn't really direct about pretty much everything, but especially when folks spout apeshit when they demonstrate a decided ignorance of the subject matter 😳🤔😊 I'm not intending to be confrontational or offensive in any way, however I do call it as it is, as I'm sure you would want and wouldn't need it sugar coated - unless maybe you're a liberal 😳🤔😊 I intentionally add some sarcastic humor to drive home THE FACTS and obvious 😊👍 1) U can't determine age from DNA 😳😳 only in the last 10 years have extremely complicated techniques been developed to TRY AND ESTIMATE age = STRIKE 2 and QUIT WHILE UR BEHIND in the "I keep spouting apeshit and digging my hole deeper" count 😳😳 You can LOOK AT any animal when you know their life span and cycle and should be able to guesstimate within reason how old they are. Of course it is an admitted guesstimate, but I'd put her in her prime at 9-10 yo. 2) YES... Cubs are a year old... WHEN THEY'RE A YEAR OLD 😳😳😳 But hey - THANKS FOR EDUCATING US ALL ON THAT 👍👍😊😊 3) Cubs are born in LATE January or early February, and this would be known as THEIR.... BIRTHDAY 😳🤔🤯😁 They typically emerge the 1st yr in late May/early June at the latest, which makes them tiny... mmm... help me here... 4 MONTHS AT THE MOST. The next year they'll emerge from late March - April -> Hmmmm ... when ...13-14 MONTHS OLD, which most folks would label them as .... A YEAR OLD 😳😳 4) YES... THE NEXT YEAR... THEY'D BE.... 2 😳😳😳🎆🎆🎆👏👏👏👍👍👍 (Please tell me you don't have a degree in math, physics or chemistry 😳😳) 5) These cubs are DEFINITELY, ABSOLUTELY, 100% CERTAIN 3 YEARS OLD. (That's a period there). 6) If she's 9, she could've had the boar at 4, and as I said, and knowing it's rare but has been documented, gotten pregnant with these cubs when he was 2 and then she kicked him out that fall at 2.5 before denning pregnant. In the Yellowstone area all bears OBVIOUSLY know the bears in adjacent/overlapping or shared territories. The boar's behavior was beyond familial and she DIDN'T LOOK TWICE AT HIM, nevermind consider him a threat. Then when she confronted her boar cub when he showed aggression towards the other boar = SHE KNOWS THAT BOAR VERY WELL. PERIOD. It's a little more than a cliche how protective grizzly sows are with their cubs, and her behavior towards the boar is either demonstrating she accepts him and knows him so well she completely ignored him and defended him - or she's just a crazy sow who defends a strange boar against her own cubs -- which one is your best guess chief?? 🤔🤔🤔 The boar's relaxed, non-aggressive, nonchalant ROLLING IN THE GRASS WITHIN 40 FEET demonstrates he knows them as well. Sows aren't so stupid as to allow a strange young boar to approach and be in close contact, and a young boar isn't so stupid as to be so relaxed to go roll on his back a few feet from a strange sow with cubs, my not so bear wise friend. 7) YOU OWNED YOURSELF 😳🤔🤯 Who the hell ever said anything about "packs"??? THAT'S WHY WE KNOW THEY'RE VERY FAMILIAR AND COMFORTABLE WITH EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF THE WAY THEY BEHAVE IN SUCH CLOSE CONTACT. 1+1=..... 2, not 5. Dr. Mike Jenkins PS - The 352 possibly largest bodied bull ever taken in Montana in my profile pic was shot after 5 hours packing into the Scapegoat, where I've seen 9" front PADS ONLY prints. Bears are VERY intelligent. Observing their behavior, thinking appropriately and applying some simple rationale will give u the answer in question, and filming bears in Yellowstone or anywhere they're habituated to humans doth not an expert make - a la Timothy Treadwell... and... sorry... YOU 😳😳
@@Yellowstonewolves Nevertheless, thank you for the excellent filming and sharing, just be a little more rational with observations 👍
@@dr.mikejohnson571 Well have a great week and thank you for watching!
@@Yellowstonewolves Another possibility we didn't consider: She might have adopted the young boar, which also has been documented. Again, Thanks for the excellent footage 🙏🙏🙏
Yeah, that one cub is definitely dealing with some serious abandonment issues towards that male.
Luckily, through some pretty advanced Translation Software... I was able to crack their complex language. I'll do my best to translate a couple of the key sentences from the aggressive Cub in question....
" Are you F*ckin serious rn..?? What's it been DAD, a YEAR..?? A Year and a half.?? One minute you're saying you're going to the corner Bee-hive for a quart of Honey, the next thing we know, we've been raised by a single Momma Bear!?!
Now you show up and think you can impress us by doing your stupid aerobics dance??
You know what.... GTFOH."
* or something like that 😏
That was good, I need your interpretation on some of the others too! Thank you so much, and I read every comment.
If feel sad for the male bear.
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