Bear behaviour studies

[richnfamous]

I too found it to be an inspiring programme. I can hardly imagine the guts it must have taken to go out and 'meet' the first one! Amazing bears.

Having lived in a hunting area - central Sweden - I can understand how he can accept hunting as part of the local life. However, in Sweden you have to study for at least 8 months in order to get a hunting licence, which means that the 'pot-shot' mentality doesn't exist there. The local people eat the animals (mainly elk [moose], roe deer, grey hares, capercaillie and black grouse) they kill - and they'd be ostracised if they didn't.

I wish they'd control the hunting better in the US as it seems anyone can buy a gun and act irresponsibly.

Did anyone else get the feeling that the bears were a bit like pigs?

[squeek]

he accepts it as there is nothing more he can do about it.
saying that he did manage to reduce the hunting period there to a much less time (think it was all yr now its just a few weeks).
you could tell he was really upset at the deaths of these bears and looking into his eyes "he hated those who killed them" and who can blame him, i was with him there so to speak, those bears were even tagged so the killers were alerted to the fact they were study bears.