You can’t fix stupid…
There’s some risks in life that just aren’t worth taking, and anything with a grizzly bear is high up there on my list. They are just too massive and too dangerous to even think that its worth any risk with them. One swipe and it could all be done.
Alaska is home to one of the largest populations of these bears throughout the untouched landscape. They get their largest there, in some cases even reaching over 1,000 pounds. The average male weighs between 400 and 800 pounds, nothing about these guys is small.
To match their size, they are absolute killers, and kings of their land. These are apex predators, meaning they have nothing that hunts them, except maybe themselves. They have big bodies to feed and will eat anything they can to survive. They use their size and power to dig, climb and break their way through anything.
An Alaskan staple is watching these big coastal brown bears eating salmon at Brooks Falls, in Katmai National Park. Alaska is home to a lot of wildlife which supports a healthy brown bear population. These salmon come into the rivers by the millions to spawn, leaving the bears running to the rivers for the rich source of fat needed to get through the winter months.
After hearing all this, surely no one would think it’s a good idea to get close to a bear and their meal? Wrong. People don’t know nothing. This guy even got caught being stupid on livestream in the middle of nowhere.
A livestream webcam was set up on Brooks Falls to watch these creatures go to work fishing at a waterfall. A man wanders into view and out into the water knee deep taking some cell phone pictures. He gets some but wants more and shuffles out a bit farther.
Sure, these are probably well-fed bears, but I wouldn’t want them to think I was coming for their food…
