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GRIZZLY BEAR CUB SWIMS WITH DUCKS & OTHER COOL ALASKA BEARS

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Uploaded by on Apr 11, 2007

BEST VIEWED ON SMALLEST SCREEN: We did a bush plane bear viewing fly-in from Kenai to Big River Lake. Unlike land based viewing from 150ft (a half football field away) three of us were in an open motorized ROW BOAT so that all filming was from about 20-40 feet away.Despite being that close we WERE NOT ON LAND and the bears had all their uninterrupted space. It was Black bears choice to swim toward our boat. Quite amazing when he gets to within FIVE FEET OF US. Younger Black bears are 'playing' at a tree. Mother Grizzly strolls from a nearby hill and leads her cubs to the water and to US! And NO, Grizzly cub does not try to snack on the ducks.
NOTE: Sorry about a bit of camera 'wobble' the direct result of BEING ON A SMALL BOAT!

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  • YouTube had an issue with the cool original music track. I did a quick replacement from YouTube's limited choices of music. I agree it is not the best and plan to replace it with a better match. As for the bears, during the 2 hours we spent in this remote Alaskan cove both Grizzly and Black bears arrived as you see in the various scenes. Truly an awesome 'in the wild' experience.

  • Very cool. The bears are obviously not afraid of humans, and you weren't interferring with them. I love to see nature just being that - natural. :-)

  • onlyoneak says: If they were not habituated to people, they would have a natural fear of man. A bear used to being around people eventually ends up dead!!! The safest bear is a wild bear!!! By the way, I live in Alaska,and see them daily during the summer,they basically tolerate us,because they have plenty of salmon to eat,and are not concerned by us!October comes around,no more salmon,"thats a different story"!

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  • Awesome video...what cute cubs!!

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  • Bears appear to be grizzlies.

  • great footage!

  • W O N D E R F U L!

  • Wow! This bear looks really skinny. It is not like the kind I see almost every day.

  • Great video.

    I think those are black bears though...

  • Number three is from the Nutcracker Suite. Most famous piece from that ballet!

  • The piano music is a song called the entertainer my Mom plays int alot on piano says her mom taught her it

  • 5*****:) GRRR!

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