That’s one tough, snow-covered grizzly
Trail cameras have been a great evolution in monitoring wild animals. Nowadays, we get to see the actions and antics of the Animal Kingdom like we’ve never seen before. There’s even a reality TV series about moose shot entirely with remote cameras that’s been sweeping the globe in the past couple of years. This trail camera located in Canada’s Yukon Territory captured a grizzly bear battling one of its toughest adversaries.
The elements.
Animals living out in nature are often at the mercy of the weather. Unlike humans who can plan ahead to avoid the brutal cold or the blistering heat, creatures living out in the wild often have to react and survive in real time. That often means that animals have to work with what they have, and in colder climates, a lot of the living beings that call the area home are equipped with thicker coats to handle the inevitable winter weather.
There might not be a beast more capable of handling the snow than the grizzly bear.
During the colder parts of the year, grizzlies grow out thicker, golden fur that helps to better insulate themselves and stay warmer. And when it gets more manageable temperature wise during the summer, grizzly bears actually shed their outer coat and sport a darker undercoat.
The grizzly in this video needed all the coat it could get as it traversed through the thick snow that had fallen in the Yukon territory. You almost can’t even see the bear in the footage with the immense amount of snow falling, and the accumulated winter precipitation on the bear’s coat.
It’s undoubtedly a whole lot of snow, but nothing that this grizzly can’t handle. Yukon Wildlife Cams shared the video from a couple of years back (that’s currently going viral in 2025) with this caption:
“Although I’ve shared this before, I’m guessing a lot of you have never seen this awesome snow-covered grizzly after a late September snowfall in 2021. Real speed and slow motion.”
That’s one bad a** bear.
One question you might have is, “Why is this bear not in hibernation?” That’s a good question, and hibernation is another way that bears are able to handle the cold weather. Since this video was taken in September, this was probably just an early snow that caught the grizzly off guard. Typically, bears won’t enter into hibernation until October or November.
If you were wondering how long bears hibernate for, that actually depends on the climate of the region they call home. For bears in more colder, northern climates, their hibernation period might last up to seven months, while bears that live in warmer, southern climates may only hibernate for two to five months. These animals have the ability to lower their nutritional needs, and though they sleep for a lot of their hibernation, bears are really just going through a period where they don’t intake any food or water, thus not needing to excrete any… you know.
And I’d like to add that I still think bears have it best when it comes to their yearly schedule. When it gets too cold and the sun is not out as much, they just decide to pack it up and sleep through that period of the calendar. How awesome is that? Why can’t we do that as humans? I’d love to sleep and stay cozy for months at a time… but maybe that’s just me.
