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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		How to Engage with Bears: Lessons from a Viral Bear-Shoving Video
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:37
	Publish Date:		2021-06-07 10:42:44
	Description:		In this episode of Wildlife Matters, the Masked Biologist looks at a news story from the west coast that involved bears, dogs, people, and at least one bad decision. If you were watching television or cruising social media at all last week, you may have seen a story and video clip about a teenage girl who drove off a bear that was engaged in a scuffle with her dogs. Now I don’t normally tear stories from the headlines, but when I saw the commentary from reporters and comments from the public at large, I felt that maybe this would be an opportunity to address the topic of intentionally engaging with bears. If you haven’t seen the video yet, I’ll describe what I saw. In California, a brown bear with two cubs were walking along the top of a block fence between yards, walking toward a house where there was a camera, maybe a security camera as it is fixed and shooting from above. Multiple dogs come running from the house barking at the bears, sending the cubs running back the way they came.
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