Wooly Mammoth Alive?

[Ukwildlifeo]

Like bigfoot they seem to be inhabitants of 'out of focus areas' (got to love Futurama! )

Looks like some dodgy cgi to me

[loripo]

Well it's a salmon-coloured trunk
(Watch out Jan, if that is really the North of England you might have it brought in to you to look after)

[John_M]

Bear.

[Suffolk-Chris]

It's the wrong shape for a mammoth..... the ones in my herb garden don't look a bit like that!!

[Jennie]

Bear with fish.

[fairplay]

I agree with Jenny, Chris, John and Loripo - bear with Salmon.
It is uncanny how the mind plays tricks.

Neil.

P.S. Should we tell the Sun they've been robbed ?

[AdrianH]

That is a badly faked film whatever the creature is. Watch it a couple of times, the same white foam follows the "animal" sideways across a moving river.

The head and shoulders stay at the same height , funny how the river bed is so flat with all those rocks around and then look closely at the left front leg and how it moves, that is the result of manipulated frames moved across a screen, that is not a continuous capture.

[fairplay]

But it's NOT a fake, I think the person who shot it realised the end result (of a bear with a fish) looked just like an elephant crossing a river that he decided to make it available so that people could be be tricked - you have been tricked.
Little did the cameraman know that eventually the Sun would get a copy and go the whole hog and use the word Mammoth.

Neil.

[Chris Hawes]

I think it's a fake - possibly footage of an African Elephant walking across the savannah, superimposed onto the river background.

It doesn't look like a bear to me, although I can see where people are coming from. A brown bear has a low-hung head with a clear shoulder hump - the shoulder is much higher than the head. In the video the animal's highest point is further forward than you'd see in a bear. It's also walking far too stiffly and upright for a bear. A walking bear would have a kind of 'swagger' to it's walk, with more of a sideways rotation through the shoulders with each step.

Finally, all the footage I've ever seen of bears which have just caught a fish shows them running to get to the land and start feeding. I've never seen them just calmly walking through a raging river like is being depicted in the video. It just doesn't look right to me.

One thing's for sure - it's not a mammoth!

[fairplay]

This is very fast flowing water with a very rocky bed - a bear is not going to be able to walk with it's usual swagger in such conditions, but travel warily to be sure of its footing.
It has the tail of the fish in its mouth with the rest of the body hanging down, and the 'waist' of the fish sometimes gives the impression it is hardly connected to the mouth.

The bears head is held high to keep the fish out of the water and being swept away.

I must admit at times the head looks like a hippopotamus, and at the beginning you can visualise ear flaps. It also seems strange that it travelled to the far shore to do the fishing having to come back again.

The white surf does seem to be following the bear - that bit does seem a little strange, but you would expect there to be some wash around the legs.

Neil.