When It’s Unbearably Hot, What’s a Mama Bear to Do?
Tracker Kim Cabrera stitched together this footage from game cameras she set up around Southern Humboldt. This one mainly focuses on a bear wallow– “a depression in a wet area caused by bears wallowing in the mud to keep cool on hot summer days. Over the years, the wallowing of the bears deepens and widens the depression, affecting the ecology of the area.”
In the first part, a mother bear bathes with her cubs. Later, several different adorable cubs make appearances as do a few handsome adult bears.
Cabrera makes regular videos on nature. You can subscribe to her YouTube channel for more informative short videos on the natural world around us here in the Emerald Counties.
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Very cool… THANK YOU
So hot i could bearly stand to watch
Magnificent Thank you very much for making my day!
That was a joy to watch, especially at 3:30 mark.
My favorite part too!
All I can say is Awww
thank u kym ,for all you do
Awesome, Kim! Love your tracking videos!
Thanks Spinnerholm!
Sweet video to watch after a hard day at the preservice at our school district. We learned more about traumatized children and the horrific level of suicide in Humboldt county. Thank you for lightening it up for us.
<3
Probably will die now bc of all the chemicals they are exposed to because of all the dirty marijuana grows.
Fortunately, that’s not the case at this particular location. It’s clean.
You wear that fur coat and tell me whether 75 degrees is un-bear-ably hot or not.
Fur heaven’s sake, your puns are unbearable.
Even 75 degrees can be unbearably hot to a bear. If a bear is in direct sunlight, at 75 degrees, the tips of their fur can heat up to 175 degrees! Info from North American Bear Center. Thus, bears prefer forests and shade on hot days! And, of course, water!
Yes they are often just seeking shade, especially in areas near timber land, those logging ops dont leave much shade for the critters!!
I sure would be hot in that fur suit!
Is their coat color an age or sex thing? I’m beary curious.
“My” three + are all different colors, from dark brown to rusty red. The oldest mama (to me) is red-orange, and the fur on her sides is so long that it moves in “waves” like a curtain when she walks. I’ve seen one walking home which was a tan-gold; just beautiful!
Black bears come in many coat colors other than just black. They can be cinnamon, brown, black, bluish, or even white (the Spirit Bear is a black bear subspecies). The mother bear in this video is the cinnamon bear that Kym shared in one of my videos from a year ago. The one with the large male bear following her around. These cute cubs are the result. 🙂
This is a rough time of year for my little lily-koi “pond,” 8 feet in diameter, 30 inches deep. Starting in August and on to the rains, it is their private cool-tub. They don’t bother the fish, but they sure rip up the lilies. (sigh) But the joy I get from watching them out my kitchen window far out-paces the damage to the landscape. It’s all good.
I think the bear should be charged with illegal streambed diversion;<).
Thank you for sharing! This made my week so much happier! Kym is the BEST!
So beautiful I cried. I love nature. Thank you for such a beautiful video.
Great video.
That looks like a fish and game diversion/ alteration… let’s put some resources on that!
Ahhhhh why do they need to create wallows??? Why not just go swimming in the rivers?
They do swim in rivers too. But they also wallow in springs and other water sources, even mud puddles. Anything to cool off on a hot day!
Ya Mama Bear!