A large grizzly bear preys on a black bear in the Canadian Rockies. Photo/Yahoo
OTTAWA – Allegedly experienced extreme hunger or hyperphagia, a large grizzly bear eating a black bear in the Canadian Rockies. Grizzly bears are thought to prey on black bears to fatten up their bodies during hibernation.
This incident was recorded by a resident named Susan Griffith from Dawson Creek in British Columbia, Canada. He then uploaded the footage grizzly bear who preyed on a black bear to Facebook on August 30, 2023.
This rare footage reveals what happens when the two predators face each other, they attack each other. “This is definitely one of the craziest things we’ve seen,” Susan wrote in the post.
The Canadian Rockies, located in Alberta and British Columbia, are home to the black bear (Ursus americanus) and the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis). The grizzly bear is one of the largest subspecies of the brown bear (Ursus arctos).
Grizzly bears are apex predators but also prolific scavengers and will eat anything they find, including other bears and members of their own species. They have been known to kill and eat black bears in areas where the two species overlap.
“This is a period of hyperphagia (extreme hunger) for bears when they are fattening up for hibernation. Grizzly bears eat black bears because they have a lot of fat stores,” said Frank T van Manen, an ecologist from the US Geological Survey quoted SINDOnews from the Live Science page, Wednesday (6/9/2023).
Frank T van Manen said there were few estimates of how frequently grizzly bears and black bears interact. However, it wasn’t unusual for them to run into each other and attack each other.
“Grizzly bears are formidable predators and sometimes go after large prey such as elk and sometimes even bison, and sometimes include species such as the American black bear. It appears to be a smaller black bear and disproportionate to an adult grizzly bear,” he said.
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2023-09-05 23:31:51
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