ALONE AMONG GRIZZLIES

Swiss biologist David Bittner has spent the last seven years forging intimate relationships with one of the most feared predators on earth; the brown bear. He believes it's possible for man and bear to live side by side and to prove it he has set up camp in the same remote area of Alaska where Timothy Treadwell was infamously mauled to death by a grizzly.

Now, for the first time, David has allowed cameras to capture his remarkable relationship with these fearsome creatures offering some extraordinary scenes rarely caught before on film.

Animal Planet
1 x 60mins
TX: 16/09/10

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Documentary
• Firecracker Films
• Bears
• Alaska
• Animal Planet
• David Bitner
• Richard Terry
• Alone Among Grizzlies

[InconsistentFlaw]

the first six coments suck ...

[DenemeDokio]

...The title says alone, but if the camera man is there as well, he is not really alone?

[Tobatto2287]

Another Timothy Treadwill waiting to happen

[randomname559]

@TurkBack2 yeah but the camera man leaves after it gets dark via helicopter

[TurkBack2]

The cameraman is the real hero of this clip. The other guy is just standing or sitting around. The cameraman is doing the same things but carry camera equipment.

[pendragonU]

Insane.

Not even St. Francis was fowling around with the wild and free animals. Leave them alone and suicide another way.

[MrTrapdaniel]

he got more balls than me an the bears....

[bwwcrazy]

He'll be a colorful pile of bear shit when its all said and dun

[Lancekkilmer]

If I could talk my wife into it I'd do it. I think the fascination is not at how powerful a killer a bear is but what a gentle creature it is, which is just a reflection of us. A person in a harsh environment can quickly become violent yet placed in a loving environment can develop peacefully, so by connecting with the bears we're really just trying to connect to ourselves.

[JackKangaroo1]

What I find to be fascinating in these recurring instances of humans managing to live so close to wild bears is that the bears evidently sense that we are different and not just another prey animal. They must have a deep curiosity about these odd creatures---humans---and tolerate their presence as something interesting or even positive in their lives. Unfortunately we humans are the most violent species on the planet and too many humans want to just kill the bears as "trophy" animals.

[EggPlantPocky03]

2 billionth