Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Yosemite's bears like human food

As you can see from this National Park
Service photo, the bears can easily
figure out how to get into most
 containers. As it turns out, the "average
bear" is pretty darn smart, like Yogi!
  Yosemite National Park is home to hundreds of black bears. The tourists flock there, in part, to
photograph these beautiful creatures.

   The Parks problem is that the bears really seem to prefer human food to foraging in the forest and humans who travel to the park don't help the situation.

  Park rangers have now come up with a foolproof way to store the food visitors bring so that the bears can't get into it.

    This season they will begin training the visitors, since they haven't had any luck training the bears not to eat what they like. 

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