Unbreakable bear: Grizzly survives pile-up that totals automobile but even a durability limp

A grizzly that was struck by a automobile travelling during about 100 km/h in Alberta doesn’t seem to have suffered any durability injuries, says a ecologist who after prisoner a bear to check him out.

Bear 164 was channel a Trans-Canada Highway near Lac Des Arcs, east of Canmore, on Jul 28 when he was struck by a vehicle, according to John Paczkowski, an ecologist for a Kananaskis area with Alberta Environment and Parks.

“The vehicle, we believe, was undriveable after a accident,” pronounced Paczkowski.

“We were entirely awaiting to go in and collect adult a carcass.”

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The bear changed about 75 metres off a highway and stayed in one place for a while, heading Paczkowski and a other officials to assume he had crawled off to die.

But by a subsequent morning, a grizzly was on a move.

Three days later, a charge officer shot video of him relocating around simply with only a slight limp, Paczkowski said.

Alberta Environment and Parks officials inspect Bear 164 on Aug. 16 after darting a animal. By that time, a grizzly showed no signs of damage from being strike by a automobile 3 weeks earlier, says a ecologist who checked him out and set him free. (Alberta Environment and Parks)

On a recommendation of a veterinarian, parks officers waited about 3 weeks and afterwards prisoner a bear during a Spray Lakes day-use area on Aug. 16 to consider him and put a new collar on him.

“We went over him twice conduct to toe with lerned personnel, looking for any pointer of injury, and we could not outwardly see any source of damage on a bear,” he said.

‘We went over him twice conduct to toe … and we could not see any source of injury.’
– Parks ecologist John Paczkowski

“I can’t suppose being strike by a automobile during 100 km/h and 3 days after walking around, and afterwards 3 weeks after he looks to be in flattering good shape.”

The hearing even suggested a bear had increasing in weight from 70 kilograms to 133 kilograms in a final 14½ months.

Bear 164 initial prisoner when courting

Bear 164 is believed to be about 7 years old.

He has been vital in a Kananaskis area for many years, Paczkowski said.

His famous home operation includes Peter Lougheed and Spray Valley provincial parks and tools of a Stoney First Nation. He also moves by a Bow Valley around Canmore and spasmodic enters a Banff townsite area.

It’s not famous either Bear 164 has ever succeeded in breeding.

“We initial prisoner him as we were perplexing to recapture a womanlike grizzly bear and he was kind of courting her for several days. So he was kind of, we know, beside her and giving her the, we know, ‘come on, baby.’ Nuzzling and perplexing to get her to go into estrous and potentially breed,” he said.

“And as we attempted to constraint her, we got him instead.”

Paczkowski says there are approximately 50 to 55 grizzlies in a Kananaskis area, and about 5 or 6 have been collared.

“Kananaskis Country has a really fast population. We have a lot of bears that have are innate and lived their whole healthy lives into their 20s in Kananaskis Country, bred and contributed to a Alberta grizzly bear population,” he said.

“And we consider it’s one of a success stories of grizzly bear liberation in Alberta.”

Don’t omit route closures due to bears, parks urge

Meanwhile, a range is removing tough on people who omit bear closure areas in a Bow Valley. The closures are meant to concede a animals to take advantage of a fender berry crop.

Yellow fasten and vast signs vigilance a areas that are closed, that includes some renouned hiking and biking trails.

But provincial wildlife dispute biologist Jay Honeyman says not everybody is removing a message.

“We see people when we’re in there checking and we get a lot of reports from a public,” he said.

“And there are a integrate of cameras up, monitoring wildlife and such, and we’re anticipating peoples’ cinema on a cameras indeed … in a closure.”

So far, provincial officials have released 4 tickets for violating a wildlife act — that carries a $115 fine.

There are bear closures in outcome in these areas as of noon on Friday:

• Northwest finish of Ghost open land-use section in Ghost River Wilderness Area.
• Hidden Trail, Coal Mine and Centennial Ridge Trail in Evan-Thomas Provincial Recreation Area.
• Boulton Campground Manager’s Site in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park.
• Quarry Lake, Grassi Lakes, Powerline and areas between Rundle Canal and Three Sisters Golf Course.
• Paved bike trail from Elkwood Campground to Mt. Sarrail Campground in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park.
• Valleyview Trail in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park.

The latest closure information can be found on a Alberta Environment and Parks site.

Bow Valley WildSmart orator Nick de Ruyter knows people are removing undone since a closures have been in outcome for some-more than a month. But he says a closures are for good reason. 

“I consider some-more people should get ticketed since hopefully that will assistance make people consider twice about going into that area, since it’s a reserve risk to themselves and a reserve risk to a bears,” he said. 

Alberta Parks asks people to news all bear sightings immediately by job 403-591-7755.

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