Grizzlies, Wolves, and other North American Carnivores

[TheMiniGameShow]

Wait! So are grizzlies...they eat berries....LOL I think honey.

[Sittingfox]

@TheMiniGameShow - yes, you're right that foxes and bears eat non-animal foods as well as meat, but "Carnivora" is actually a taxonomic order. Even giant pandas are classed within it, and they eat almost no meat. Carnivore in this context refers to animals with certain characteristics, such as canine teeth.

[TheMiniGameShow]

Um foxes are onivores...they eat berries...

[chuseg14]

love this video, help protect those animals

[Misyu44]

I like this video a lot. Cheers

[pyx90]

What's the name of this song if you don't mind me asking?

[Sittingfox]

It's the main theme from Myst III: Exile, by Jack Wall.

[jowilson06]

I thought that's what it was. They are amazing animals and incredibly reclusive. I live in Northeast Washington State and early one morning there was a lynx moving through the creekline outside my house. I thought it was a bob cat at first, but I spent some time looking at photos of the two cats, im 90% sure it was a lynx. Its amazing how they move, it seemed like a split second then it disappeared into the woods. Thanks for posting all of your videos!

[Sittingfox]

Wow, lucky you! That must have been an incredible experience.

When I saw a cougar it was a bit like that - no sooner had I realised what it was then it was gone into the forest, never to return.

[jowilson06]

Excellent work! It must have taken so much time and patients. At 2:09 what animal was that in the darkness??

[Sittingfox]

Thanks! That was a Canadian lynx with its characteristic bright eyeshine, a very tough cat to find in the wild but quite spectacular! I've only ever seen two.

[wmdude102086]

what animals were those at 1:41

[Sittingfox]

The ones up the tree? Two subadult black bears.

[wmdude102086]

no the ones in the distance right before them

[Sittingfox]

Those were the wolves of the Druid Peak pack in Yellowstone (Sept 02). They were great to watch through spotting scopes, but they were really far away on the other side of the Lamar Valley, and getting any kind of picture or photograph was hard!

[wmdude102086]

how bout the black dots in the lake at 1:51

You should rent out your shed in your yard I would happily pay rent to live there for a week haha

[Sittingfox]

Oh, the lake is just scenery!

I live in England, actually, but I do travel around the remote parts of North America frequently, especially to the Canadian Rockies. This video comes from all over the place, from Waterton Lakes in Alberta to Algonquin Park in Ontario.

[CountrySunshine1978]

Sorry I thought I saw something swimming in the lake haha

I cant believe you have all this footage by just visiting over the years.

[Sittingfox]

This is what I do on my trips - work hard to find wildlife! Some of the visits were pretty lengthy; I spent five months last year out west, mostly looking at the interactions of bears and people. But even when I'm on "vacation" it's a case of getting outside at 5am and looking out 100% of the time.

But yeah, I have been very blessed to so much wildlife; I've also travelled in Asia and Africa.

[wmdude102086]

wow that is excellent footage, I live on the east coast and the only things in that video I have ever even seen I think was the weasel,fox,and coyote!! I would love to visit the Rockies one day! My dream is to see wild wolves!

[Sittingfox]

Thanks very much!

I hope you are successful in finding wolves in the wild one day! They are truly magnificent animals. I just wish they didn't face so many threats. Even in Jasper, they aren't really safe from humanity...

[PwnerSonic]

SittingFox have you ever seen a mountain lion in the wild before if so where?

[Sittingfox]

Just one, very briefly, on Vancouver Island. I didn't get a picture though. It had caught a raven. I found VI to be in general a difficult place to see mammals because of the dense forests (not to mention some serious issues with anti-wildlife attitudes from certain RCMP officers, poor garbage management, poaching etc). I also photographed some tracks on the island; I put them in the video here just after the "cougar sighting" notice.

[marcguiver]

you have some pretty cool footage

[Sittingfox]

Thanks! It's mostly from the Rockies with some from Algonquin and the Pacific northwest.

[eyedabbler]

loved this video... the music added something of an urgency... good choice.

[Sittingfox]

Thankyou!

I always prefer to edit videos to music, but with shorter sequences (especially on my fox videos, where I've just got a behaviour sequence I want to put on my blog) it isn't always possible. Anyway, the music here is the theme song of Myst III: Exile.

[shanewhite]

excellent video, music great also! good work!!

[Sittingfox]

Thanks very much! Quite a lot of work to go through the old footage but good fun too.

[sandycats99]

Beautiful!

[Sittingfox]

Merci beaucoup!

The overview shot of AP was from a viewpoint en route to Surprise Lake, I think (cannot recall for sure, it was a long time ago).