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  • omg im so jealous. i want to raise a bear and not get owned by it LMFAO T_T

  • oh my goodness! the bear at 0:21 is masturbating!

  • LMFAO

  • @XIPM3 bears are itchy.

  • So what do you suggest...what would put these bears at a lower risk. And please lets have a real discussion, not an argument. I am not trying to undermine your legitimacy as someone who works with bears.

  • I think this guy is brilliant! (well, obviously he is brilliant.. he was tested) And he is quite brave so, how else do you learn what he learns by spending that quality time with the animals. I may put them at a certain risk level but perhaps it is well worth it to learn... they are scientists afterall - that is the ultimate goal.

  • "Can Anyone tell me what the bear at 00:22 time is doing? Hes stroking something hmmmmm."JohnIsMyNamehehe

    Yeah he is wanking not rubbing his leg like someone said unless his leg is in the middle of his crotch LOL

    Dang, seen a couple of clips taken at a zoo of a male bear doing oral on himself and it was hilarious the reaction when the people suddenly realized what he was doing!!!

  • my great grandfather once raised 2 black bear cubs, he let them go when they got a bit older and "rougher"

  • Dear Zihava,

    I think you misunderstand my post. I am sorry about the tragedy that your family experienced under the Third Reich. By "Species Nazi" I was referring to those who whould place humanity on a level higher than other life forms. I believe we share all Life on this planet and should understand it both in situ as well as how it interacts with us. I am sorry that you took unbrage to my remarks. Have a cup of tea and relax. Is this any reason to block a harmless old man like myself?

  • I suppose it is better to put them in a zoo.(Not) Look, I live in an area where Fish and Game issued a kill order to remove a couple of moose. What this guy did was to explore that which we can and cannot do with wildlife. Better to understand them than to shoot them, whatever it takes. Lets take a deep breath and take our anger out on a heavy bag.

  • so zihava your saying you would have left the cubs to die then?

  • Having worked with bears and bear research for more than 12 years, I couldn't disagree more with this man's approach. Kilham is not a scientist or biologist and his research is tainted. Man should NEVER interfere with any animal while observing behavior and making quantifiable conclusions about a species. Wrong in so many ways! Kilham - I have no respect for you or your work. You do not help bears by humanizing them and befriending them. Does the name Timothy Treadwell ring a bell??

  • Jealous? hahahaha - LOL. I work with bears. I just don't interfere with their natural cycle of life. No real scientific research can be taken seriously when the human wants to pet the animals. As these bears become more acclimated to humans and being fed by humans, they lose their wildness, they become nuisances as they encroach more on the human environment and then people have no choice but to kill them. This stupid human - much as yourself it seems - puts these bears in more danger. MORON.

  • I don't think your understand. These bears are wild bears. It's not like you can just walk up to them, or for that matter they are any more humanized then other bears. I know this because I work with bears too! (I mean no offense by this)..but you do not understand his methods here. What makes you think that these bears are so humanized?? There is no proof, (this I can guarantee), because there have been no problems with Ben's released bears.

  • there no difference then wild chimpanzees i would imagine and their intelligence maybe on par too but i feel sorry for the people living in areas with those bears though coming into their homes and neighborhoods

  • @zihava He does not feed bears other than those that he initially raised (and their offspring).

    While a few of his bears were problem bears (particularly males), this was not at all the case for all of them-most of his females did quite well. The bears he raised that ended up problem bears became problem animals after trigger events (related to hunters or encounters with larger males).

    He does NOT find already wild bears and habituate them, and works to make sure they depend on wild food sources

  • C'mon, you sound like a real species nazi.

  • After reading Kilham's first book 'Among the Bears' and watching two previous doc's I look forward to his latest documentary and research! If we can learn more about our closest mammal in N.Amer maybe we can help bears and ourselves in the future...just maybe!?Watch on Mar 8 or 10th and then come back and comment!

    Cheers

  • people really believe in that evolution crap, the bears allowed us to do things??

  • It makes me so happy to see so much love..I'm sick of animal cruelty and this video really made my day!!!!!

  • I can't bear it anymore.

    Stop killing bears!

  • STOP killing Bears.

    STOP killing animals.

  • stop eating them first. then talk. :}

  • I'm a Veg.

  • lol!

    :) ruben

  • just because he isn't looking through a microscope it doesn't mean that this isn't science. i greatly admire this man for knowing that. i want to work with wildlife, so i'm very inspired by this video. thank you for posting.

  • Not sure I understand what you mean, care to elaborate?

  • he means blacks are different ! it's a racist comment

  • are you a racist?

  • no i am not

  • what a stupid comment.

  • o did u know that..your a fagtard and you deserved to be killed by that blind girl? yea i said it

  • was the bear jacking off at 00:40?

  • haha

  • Rofl!

  • No he was rubbing his leg.

  • yes

  • i so knew it!

  • rules like experimenting on human subjects are stupid. how are we to learn anything? hear hear!

  • relax people. Hes not saying he doesn't believe in Science. He just thinks his way of studying these bears tells him more then the way scientists would study the bears, which is at a distance, with little interaction.

  • Courage.

    See, bears are intelligent and somewhat social. It comes as little surprise to me that some bear could socialise with an human.

    However...this guy should be wary that if anything goes wrong, like mommy bear getting ill or suffering from a disease...he is trusting his life in the end of the most social bear perhaps, but still a bear.

    More courageous than me; I trust my life in the hands of humans (unwise? I wonder)...but bears? Sorry...

  • "...more accurate results than science can"....I lost all respect for this joker when he said that. Anything else he did/said went in one ear and out the other. What a fuckin' retard.

  • I agree WTF is he doing if not SCIENCE!!! What a dumbass

  • Social behavior is not scientific. If it wasn't for behavior there would be no science because no one would have the behavior that allows curiousity to develope into scientific facts and theories.

  • "Social behavior is not scientific". Ever heard of "social science"? It is amazing how many people are completely ignorant....and then said people choose to open their mouth.....and make an ass out of themselves....but they will argue that they are not retarded. Amazing. Keep it up!....it's what makes the world go 'round. I can't imagine a world without retards like you. Don't try to bust my balls--you will lose. Believe it or not, not every person is as dumb as you.

  • totaly agree

  • HAHA that's funny. Without behavior there would be no science.

  • relax... i don't think he meant it like you think it. And don't be so pompous about science -- its great and all -- but don't act like there isn't negative aspects of science in practice.

  • 0:22

    Awkward Moment

  • >.>

  • Can Anyone tell me what the bear at 00:22 time is doing? Hes stroking something hmmmmm.

    xD

  • his hand, u aint see it?

  • i do agree with his work may be a way out for animals extitions, nothing else is working up to now animals species still desapear he is doing something about que buen trabajo para evitar la extición de animales esa podria ser una via yo lo he pensado muchas veces porque dejar que los animales se extingan??? porque no criar dantas ????

  • i do agree with his work may be a way out for animals extitions, nothing else is working up to now animals species still desapear he is doing something about que buen trabajo para evitar la extición de animales esa podria ser una via yo lo he pensado muchas veces porque dejar que los animales se extingan??? porque no criar dantas ????

  • i can see both sides of the argument in the video, he did do a good job of raiding them, but then again did make the bears more friendly to humans...

    seems like she went ok though, still alive and raising offspring, which is good to see

  • First to prove that he's an idiot!

  • whoop'dee do! did you learn anything (did ya even listen to it?)

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