mrbb
07-12-2013, 06:31 PM
OK here is a close encounter with a young bear and deer, I know bears will eat and kill a deer if they can catch one, most times in all my yrs about bears and deer, they typically don't care too much about each other until a certain distance is encroached, like they have a safety of"X" amount of feet between each other, before either one, gets nervous, and believe it or not,in my food plots, 99% of the time, its the bears that run from the deer, as the deer way out number the bears LOL
This is a very young bear , and guess he is learning that deer are not easy to catch, and why I guess so many older/bigger bears don't even bother trying to catch a deer, unless one is injured or likes
they know deer are pretty fast on there feet!
BUT Bears do eat a lot of fawns, when there first born, according to mt State game dept, they did a study, and claim bears eat a lot of fawns while there still in the first few weeks of life, then , not so many!
as you can see she didn't wait long to run off when the bear showed up!, but came right back an hr later!
http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z457/mrbb1/123197_zpsa85922ae.jpg (http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/mrbb1/media/123197_zpsa85922ae.jpg.html)
http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z457/mrbb1/123198_zps84d6fa02.jpg (http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/mrbb1/media/123198_zps84d6fa02.jpg.html)
http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z457/mrbb1/123199_zps723b1989.jpg (http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/mrbb1/media/123199_zps723b1989.jpg.html)
This is a very young bear , and guess he is learning that deer are not easy to catch, and why I guess so many older/bigger bears don't even bother trying to catch a deer, unless one is injured or likes
they know deer are pretty fast on there feet!
BUT Bears do eat a lot of fawns, when there first born, according to mt State game dept, they did a study, and claim bears eat a lot of fawns while there still in the first few weeks of life, then , not so many!
as you can see she didn't wait long to run off when the bear showed up!, but came right back an hr later!
http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z457/mrbb1/123197_zpsa85922ae.jpg (http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/mrbb1/media/123197_zpsa85922ae.jpg.html)
http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z457/mrbb1/123198_zps84d6fa02.jpg (http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/mrbb1/media/123198_zps84d6fa02.jpg.html)
http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z457/mrbb1/123199_zps723b1989.jpg (http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/mrbb1/media/123199_zps723b1989.jpg.html)