The only material from Alberta, Canada that I could find on You Tube relating to bears was killing them.
Hungry black bears descend on Fort McMurray
CTV,
20
May, 2016
With
their habitat destroyed by northern Alberta’s raging wildfire,
hungry black bears are now moving into the evacuated city of Fort
McMurray to scavenge for food.
“What
we’ve got is tons of spoiling food inside houses in the heart of
prime black bear range,” University of Alberta conservation
biologist Lee Foote told CTV News on Friday. “You couldn’t create
a better potential to attract black bears from a large area... and
there are a lot of black bears in the area.”
Although
the number of bears that have entered the city remains unknown,
YouTube footage has surfaced of the animals scavenging through
burning debris. Residents are expected to begin returning to the city
on June 1.
“It
hasn’t played out to be a big problem yet because we don’t have a
lot of people in Fort McMurray,” Foote says. “But when they
return and have their hands full with cleanup and fixing up, they
need to keep watching over their shoulder.”
Black
bears, Foote says, are typically non-aggressive, with attacks on
humans being extremely rare. But that doesn’t mean that Fort Mac
residents should be blasé about their furry new neighbours. If
encountering a bear, Foote says that you should make sure not to
corner the animal, get between it and food or startle a mother with
cubs. Rotten food, he adds, should only be disposed of in
properly-sealed metal bins. Local authorities should always be called
in for help.
“The
Fort McMurray folks are really quite bear aware,” Foote says. “But
this is going to be a different type of emboldened, entitled bear --
if you will. They have had free reign of the place for a while, it’s
prime fattening-up season just out of hibernation, and it could be a
problem.”
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