Via The New Yorker, "Bear Cam’s Captivating, Unedited Zen":
On a recent afternoon, there were around ten bears on the cam, using a variety of techniques to stalk the salmon. Some stood downstream of the falls, upright and staring straight down into the water for fish to grab, almost as a person might do. The most dramatic were those that perched on the rocks at the top of the cascade, grabbing at the airborne salmon attempting to leap over and continue upstream. It’s innately satisfying to see a bear grab hold of a salmon with its mouth and trundle off into the shallows with the fish still flapping in its jaws.Not so "zen" for the salmon, but it's amazing how many salmon a bear lets go by and makes no attempt to catch.
That reminds me, are any of you watching the "Yellowstone Live" show on National Geographic TV? It's not much like the bear video above, because there's kind of an idea of covering the park like you'd cover the Olympics, jumping from venue to venue, with enthusiastic "sportscasters" telling you what to be excited about seeing. But Forbes has "Why You Should Watch This Live Show On Yellowstone National Park."
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Evolution - its no accident
Then explain why salmon do this.
Not so "live" for many of the salmon either.
Reproduction
No zen for the salmon? Au contraire.
O to break loose, like the chinook
salmon jumping and falling back,
nosing up to the impossible
stone and bone-crushing waterfall –
raw-jawed, weak-fleshed there, stopped by ten
steps of the roaring ladder, and then
to clear the top on the last try,
alive enough to spawn and die.
Robert Lowell, "Waking Early Sunday Morning"
Let the oceans rise for the poor salmon!
100,000 years ago, was it easier for them? What about 100,000 from now?
Young bear steps up to the rock ledge, eyes the first salmon that leaps and snags it on his first try.
Older, more seasoned bear crankily mumbles "beginner luck".
Katmai. Yellowstone.
Jimbino status: triggered.
Down in the meadow in a little bitty pool
Swam three little fishies and a mama fishie too
"Swim" said the mama fishie, "Swim if you can"
And they swam and they swam all over the dam
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
She forgot to tell them of the bears.
The bears don't eat anywhere near most the fish. Talk about being eaten alive: the bear will hold the flopping fish with the paw and then tear the skin off the fish, then go the fleshy sides. Most times only on one side. Then it's back to the river. The fish remains are then a meal for the bear's entourage of hangers-on and scavengers.
I’ll be in Gallatin Madison and Yellowstone end of the week and next. Hopefully grizz won’t get me and eat on camera. How embarrassing...
I wish those bears would knock it off. Every salmon they eat means one less salmon for me.
I could eat salmon every day.
Bears are Tao.
Animal Etiquette, from The Wind in the Willows:
The rat hummed a tune and the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one’s friends at any moment, for any reason, or no reason whatever.
@Rob -- Thanks for that.
Yogi and Booboo go fishin'
Is the bear operating the camera?
Gulls hanging around hoping for salmon scraps. Metaphor.
-sw
Cut to live image of Yellowstone bison rolling around in a cloud of dust.
Narrator: In rutting season the male bison urinate in the mud and roll or wallow in it to increase their smell and make themselves more attractive to the females.
Bitches so fuckin' easy.
Interesting thing is that the mud peeing voice-over line didn't show up in the closed captions.
I can't believe that everyone is just standing around watching those bears murder and eat those fish.
Hamm's the land of sky blue waters. Its Beer Refreshing!
If Brutus, the Yellowstone rescue grizzly, eats Jenna, the Nat Geo correspondent, live on the air, will you feel:
A. Happy
B. Sad
C. Hungry
E. Aroused
D. ?
FYI, Meade, the stinky-pee-rolling strategy won't work with an anosmiac.
"D. ?"
Had to redact to protect sources and methods.
Let me be the first to say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVS1UfCfxlU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5YCNBKg98I
Rabel said...
If Brutus...eats Jenna...will you feel:
Hungroused
For my part, I enjoy watching the neighborhood raccoon climb past the baffle on my bird feeder post to eat the jelly I put out for the orioles.
The racoon is well fattened for winter. Is this an omen of a cold winter?
Brutus gets big chance with Jenna, the hot Nat Geo correspondent, and what does he do?
He leans back and shows her (and everybody else) his dick.
Men. I swear.
But I did come to understand why "Hung like a grizzly bear" never made its way into the common lexicon.
Rabel said...
Brutus...leans back and shows her (and everybody else) his dick.
#EtToo
Zen and bears in running water. What's not to like
Silence reveals our true nature.
“We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.” – Zen Saying
Two things a man never grows tired of watching, fire and falling water.
-A Single Shard
Two things a man never grows tired of watching, boobs.
-Ignorance is Bliss
I might have missed it but I think I just watched a full hour of a Nat Geo nature program without hearing climate change mentioned a single time.
It's a start.
"The racoon is well fattened for winter. Is this an omen of a cold winter?"
Not unless he bought the jelly himself. Otherwise it's just opportunism.
Despite the excellent service, I saw no tipping. Are those European bears?
"ok...and Action!"
(5 hours later)
bear catches fish, eats it.
"Ok! That's a wrap! Nice work, people! Call time 7 am tomorrow!"
Uh, bears-- can I see you over here for a minute? Great-- yeah, ah... yeah, maybe we could see a little more, you know, 'fish catching' in this scene? Great!
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