Black Bear Adult Boar Cleaning Himself Shenandoah National Park

This is a Black Bear Adult Boar Cleaning himself in Shenandoah National Park.

Bears Are amazing creatures! If you want to see bears, the Black Bears are most always safe creatures, but to be successful in bear viewing, there are only a few things you need to know! Here they are for your safety and the bears:

1. Never run from a bear, if you get scared and run, the bear might think you are prey and run after you!

2. Never Feed a Bear, feeding bears habituates them to humans and the park rangers might consider them "Trouble Bears" and the bears may have to be killed relocated.

3. Bears will sometimes Bluff Charge, this often occurs with Mom's defending there cubs or Adult Male bears in mating season being defensive of the sows they want to mate with. In this regard and others when you might fell that the bear is being a threat to you, do not run, but talk in a quite but firm voice "Easy Bear, Easy, Everything is alright, Easy Bear, Easy..."

4. Bears communicate! If you hear a bear huff (also known as blowing) or if they pop there jaws or make a growl-like sound or a snort it usually means they are asking for more space and you should back away...

Happy Bear Viewing!

Here is a link to my Flickr account to view more of my bears:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielmapel/

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Black bear
• Adult Boar
• Bear Cleaning
• Shenandoah National Park
• Adult Male Bear

[LUVBRZ]

apmoyers -- Thank you for the comment!

[LUVBRZ]

Thanks for the comment Buddy! Ya, I think so too, it's a great video, I have seen a Bear (our Mama of 2 cubs and a Mom of 1 cub) scratch themselves, but that's different then a full cleaning job like this Boar did, I've never seen that before this time...

[vahoghunter]

No need to quit haneef82. Just give them some room if possible. I saw 14 while hiking through the park last year. You may want to carry an air horn. They are loud and will scare the bear. If one does attack, fight back as hard as you can.

[lootordie]

saw 6 bears over there today..bears4life

[BlackBearsLove]

They ARE wonderful! And SMART! Thanks for the post and may God bless you and all Bears! :-)

[BlackBearsLove]

They ARE wonderful! And SMART! Thanks for the post an dmay God bless you and all Bears! :-)

[haneef82]

went to the shenandoah natl park last friday at around 7:00 pm to do a small hike at Compton's mountain (?). Saw a big black bear roaming about 40 yards to my right. It didn't see me. I walked back down the trail with my back towards the bear. After 5 minutes of walking down, i noticed fresh bear paw marks on the trail. Also bear feces.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid to go hiking anymore. Is there something to do if a bear comes to attack? Time for a new hobby *sigh*

[apmoyers]

Awesome video.

[lwb1962VA]

Excellent video! Not many people get to see a wild bear cleaning itself.