Wes Larson, a bear biologist and host of the Tooth and Claw podcast, was trying out the location of a deadly mauling he coated on his present, when he ended up in the midst of a grizzly-moose chase. He quips on Twitter: “I noticed a moose within the campground and went to take a brief video of it . . . it ended up being a greater video than I anticipated.”
In an Instagram put up sharing the video, Larson says he was visiting the Soda Butte Campground in Montana the place a grizzly bear killed Kevin Kammer again in 2010. He had coated this story on his podcast and needed to do a drive via, since he was close by.
“The campground was abandoned and the gate was unlocked so I drove in,” he wrote. “On the opposite facet of the campground I noticed the darkish form of a moose within the bushes, so I moved nearer to seize it with my digicam. Seems I wasn’t the one one watching the moose . . .”
Within the video, Larson first focuses on a moose that emerges from the bushes close to his car. The moose stops in entrance of the automotive and glances behind it, earlier than working across the automotive. A grizzly bear then seems from the bushes, follows the moose’s path round Larson’s automotive, and chases the moose off into the gap.
Watch Larson’s unintentional video of a grizzly-moose chase right here:
On Tuesday I went to an empty campground in Montana as a result of it was the situation of a deadly grizzly assault we coated on Tooth and Claw (my podcast). I noticed a moose within the campground and went to take a brief video of it…it ended up being a greater video than I anticipated pic.twitter.com/B0KFEpBvrd
— Wes Larson (@grizkidd) June 16, 2024
One other Shock
Larson obtained a second shock when he realized precisely the place he was when this chase went down.
“After the interplay was over and the unsuccessful bear grazed on clover in a subject close by, I checked the location quantity the place the chase had simply unfolded,” he wrote on Instagram. “It was Web site 26, the exact same location of the deadly mauling 14 years in the past.”
Should you ever camp at Soda Butte Campground, significantly web site 26, convey your bear spray.
