A ranger in Yosemite National Park shared a moving picture of a “grief-stricken” female bear and her dead cub after being knocked down by a car.
Rangers shared this photo to highlight the “tragic reality” behind vehicle-related bear death statistics and urge park visitors to limit speed and stay vigilant.
According to KeepBearsWild.org, since 1995, there have been more than 400 collisions between vehicles and bears on Yosemite highways, and dozens of collisions between vehicles and bears have occurred every year.
last weekend, Yosemite National Park Share account through Facebook From the page of one of the rangers, they had to respond to the reported death of the cub.
The ranger said that, sadly, such calls have become routine. They recorded the coordinates, collected their things, and then set out to find the animal.
The purpose of the ranger is to remove the carcasses of dead animals from the road to prevent more animals from being hit while picking up food on the road. They also want to collect samples and take measurements for research.
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After some searching, the rangers said they found a “little light brown body”, estimated to be about 6 months old, just a few feet from the road.
The park staff added: “I picked up the cub-it won’t weigh more than 25 pounds-and started to take it into the woods. I don’t have a definite destination; I just keep walking until I can’t hear it anymore. The sound of the road hissing behind me.”
They placed the cubs in a more suitable resting place and started measuring, but noticed another bear nearby.
The rangers said that they smashed the tree with a stick to scare it away, but the bear soon returned, staring at the ranger and snorted. The ranger realized that the bear must be Cub’s mother.
The ranger said: “This is a kind of vocalization, a call from the mother bear to the cub.” “It is not a coincidence… I am here now, standing between a sad mother and her child.”
The ranger decided to leave, but before then quickly set up a remote camera. In explaining why, they wrote: “We report the number of bears hit by vehicles every year, but the numbers don’t always paint a picture. I want people to see what I see: every number The tragic reality behind it.”
KeepBearsWild pointed out that collisions between vehicles and bears are now one of the main causes of deaths of black bears in Yosemite.
The “Red Bear and Dead Bear” project launched in 2007 uses signs in the park where collisions have occurred in the past to raise awareness.
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