Grizzlies Fighting Over Elk Carcass Yellowstone National Park 9.26.20
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- On the weekend of Sept. 19th - 20th, a large Grizzly Bear took down a Bull Elk in Yellowstone River just South of Canyon Village (Otter Creek area) and dragged it back to shore ( • Grizzly Kills Bull Elk... . The large Grizzly nicknamed "Hercules" guarded and fed on his prized Elk up until later that week. Sometime around Thursday Sept. 24th or Friday Sept. 25th a new Grizzly Bear showed up on the scene and dug up the carcass from the shoreline and dragged it to the spot we see on my video. There, the new Grizzly Bear guarded and fed on what remained of the leftovers. On Saturday Sept. 26th, I arrived to the location early in the morning with my camera at the ready. While clicking off pictures and filming the new Grizzly protecting the carcass I noticed a another Grizzly Bear coming out of the woods from behind. Working it's way around to the river, then stealthily stalking in the river, the new Grizzly began to slowly test the other Grizzly's determination up until the confrontation in the river. A truly amazing experience to see this. I hope you enjoy watching it.
Great quality footage. Thanks for sharing.
*Yellowstone is simply magnificent!* 😍
BEAUTIFUL photography!
I love this video. the best.
I first saw this video on Twitter👍. Quality video👌. Thanks for uploading.
I've never seen such dark black grizzlies.. I always heard they are out there, but this is first time seeing one that dark!
I had the "amazing" opportunity to take the attack video and your video plays out scenes I pictured taking place in the dark of night in the days following. I'm glad you captured the fight and posted this high quality video to share! Thank you!
Right on BJ, thanks. Your video was what got my ass off the couch to go and check it out early Saturday morning. Talk about being at the right place at the right time ... Decent!
I have been following this magnificent story from the start...do we know if the 2nd bear in this video is 791? or are these 2 separate bears ? fabulous videos from everyone starting with BE Judson thanks so much....I was there in the first afternoon but don't have any of your good camera equipment
@@DaveAngelescu i posted your video on #Twitter ... so others can see your great Video too. Don't now if you have also a #Twitter-#Account.
greetings @pizzaital
@@pizzaital0611 Hi Marina, thanks. I don't have a twitter account, but cool that you posted. Cheers.
both you guys captured incredible videos, all those bears were really good looking
No place like this. Great footage. Miss my annual spring trip this year due to Covid-19. Thank you for sharing..
Well filmed..thankyou..I miss my timebin Yellowstone so much.
A really wonderful video. I love watching grizzlies any time and this is really excellent.
Awesome video, I’ve seen #791 on other carcasses. First time I shot video of him was in 2018, when he took a carcass over from the Wapiti Lake wolf pack. Well done!
Yes, this work deserves attention !!!
I really liked it.
You have a lot of cool work on your channel that I'm interested in!
I will wait for your new videos.
Bear 2: I think I’m bigger than that I’m just gonna grab his food
Bear 1: get that f#% out of here
No "free lunches" in Yellowstone. Excellent interaction of the grizzly bears. Plus, video camera operator had all the skills of a professional photographer.
Your right on . he is a pro . he also might get the bears higher in an acting Career. Great stuff a year ago well.
Was there the first morning ... must have been a million dollars worth of video gear on the river LOL.... Great JOB and amazing video
Birds on the background chilling and just watching the fight
I first watched BE Judson's video and then this one. Incredible footage. Love the sound of running water and singing birds, and then the raw energy of the fight, both visual and audio. Perfection!
Sue Trubrit The canned music is much better
We must have JUST missed this clash! We were there Saturday morning watching the two bears. WOW! Great footage!
Of all the nature docs and experience I've had. I honestly never knew they bury their kills.
Keeps the meat cold.. intelligent animals
Stunning video and scenery. Thanks for posting. I'm surprised the bears don't detect your scent around them.
Incredible. We had left the park the morning of the 23rd. Did see the elk kill/grizzly in the Hayden Valley near Canyon Village. Made the trip for us.
Thank you! I seen the first video when the original bear took the elk down! Amazing! This video is amazing too watching the bears fight over carcass. I also watched a video of a wolf trying to get close and that was awesome too. Nature and wild animals are just awesome. Love it. Thanks for sharing!
Spectacular!!!!!! GREAT, GREAT video!!!!
HOLY COW!! THE SOUNDS!!!!!
Thank you for sharing !!! We were there friday and sunday. amazing to see what we had missed.
Dave this is freaking outstanding! Thank You for sharing.
I just love how the birds pesters the bears about their food, and the bears can’t do anything about it. Sorta like nosy neighbors watching your every move with their curtains open.🤣😀
simply fantastic.. we were at this exact spot during to 9 01 20 to 9 09 20 .. we went a week earlier this year but never again.. going at least 1.5 to 2 weeks later like we did the year before when we saw stuff like this with a dead buffalo carcus and wolves in lamar valley
I saw these two bears yesterday morning just after sunrise. The big one was still in the river. There was another one about a half a mile down the road, too, way up near the trees. I saw someone stop real sudden and jump out with scopes. I stopped and asked what they saw. Grizzly. I was able to see it with my binoculars. Through these people's scopes I could see the bear had a blonde face. These were the first bears I had seen in the park.
Great video! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Imagine if Africa had Grizzlies. The battles between lions, hyenas, and Grizzlies...
Brown Bears did in fact live in Africa (Northern Africa, specifically). They were called, Atlas Bears, but sadly they're extinct.
I don't wanna imagine that, I like that lions and hyenas aren't extinct
Great idea! We should take a thousand of them over there.
@@shanelarsen1436 I m in. I live in grizzly country. ill catch em if you'll ship em
I know that the bear with the color did NOT take down the elk. This one pulled it up from the bank where the other bear, perhaps the second one in the water in this video, had buried it on the bank after it took down the injured elk. Pretty fascinating to see what has transpired the last week.
There is plenty of footage of the kill. Just need to search the
@@pdubb23 , I know. I was just letting other people know. It's pretty amazing.
Are you sure? The collared bear is bear 791 and was credited in the original video with being the one that killed the elk. I’ll have to go back and look closely. Looks like you’re right though.
Edit: Nope I was wrong. 791 does not appear to have a collar. Did a little more digging, one with the collar who stole the kill is 881.
I was there the afternoon of the 26th, I missed the grizzly fight, I just saw the big one on the bank (with the radio collar) still working over the elk carcass.
What part of the park?
@@chrisfrink5348 Just north of the Hayden valley as I recall, along the Grand Loop Road. The bear was across the Yellowstone from the road.
Thank you for posting this clash of the Titans! The audio makes my hair stand on end. You seem too close for comfort. I agree that it is nice to just be able to watch it without a narrator. Beautiful Yellowstone, makes me homesick.
I was at the spot this was taken, the Rangers kept quite a bit of the area free from spectators. We were all across the Yellowstone river from the bear. I'm sure Driver Dave had a very good telephoto for this.
i love bears; one of my fave animals
High class content.I enjoyed the video,Thank you
Bears are so smart about conflict. They carefully weigh the risk vs the reward and avoid full on fights very well.
Great footage and quality recording👌. You captured the scene square on and level at 180° 👍.
I was there. Great capture!
Bineinteles ca trebuie sa fie roman pentru un video asa the stralucit. Felicitari!
Mulțumesc Elizabeth. Românii nu sunt doar cei mai buni iubitori, ci și cei mai buni fotografi din lume.
Looks like a black bear to me ! It helps to know the difference!
That’s what I thought too looks like black bears to me.
Wow, I am sure you were a nice distance away, but it only makes the sounds more impressive. Imagine being close there. Superb capture!
Dang man, did you have that Grizzly mic'ed up? The audio is incredible! What sense of smell that second Bear had to find meat under the water. Great video
meat under the water.
audio is fake
Great show. Where am i going i best turn around and stay close to that Buffet. King of the Cooke throne know's i am not here just to look like a jerk hoping the king would evaporate some how. king is not all that smart wasting his energy on a few birds. Great cam show Dave Angelescu you sure know about Grizzly Behavior. Bears are so intelligent. Bear say's i just want to smell it. though how can he smell after eating rotting smelly bones . bears must have a stomach of iron.
Thanks for sharing this amazing footage!
Fabulous footage!
Fantastic footage! However number one hope you were not alone and number two hope you were a safe distance from them. Don't they get kind of nasty when protecting a kill? Great to capture this and worthy of anything I've seen on PBS nature specials. Actually maybe better because real life doesn't have a "professional announcer and soundtrack music" when it happens. ;-) Hope you're staying safe and taking care.
Amazing footage
Great footage. Thanks for sharing it.
Great video! The thing that strikes me about these grizzlies is how dark their coats are. Is that a characteristic found in Yellowstone bears or could it be the lighting? If I wasn’t familiar with the features found on grizzlies such as the hump on the shoulders, shear size and dish face I would have almost bet these were black bears. Thank you for sharing!
Good thing my grizzly is from Alaska. One of my most protective animal spirits
Outstanding video! Love the quality of it including the audio. Does anyone know if the second bear in the water (with no collar) is 791, the one that originally killed the elk? I can't tell for sure based on the videos and photographs I've seen. It does seem to me that 791 was larger than both bears seen in this video but so many factors can account for that (zoom level on cameras, lighting, angle, etc.). Thanks for sharing this amazing footage.
IT IS AFTER LABOUR DAY ! YOU CAN ALL GO HOME NOW AND GIVE US LOCALS OUR PARK BACK!
LOL!
@@DaveAngelescu " any day now. : ) .... Heard that a month ago.. Hahaha ..
Neat post bro
LOL
Excellent! I need to make it out there
Wow amazing video .... Love it 💞💞💞
That’s awesome. Wish we had the Phantom cam there for that
Does a bear sheet in the woods?
Yes!
Several years ago my in-laws were camping/trout fishing out in Wyoming . Dad was doing well catching trout, and was working his way along and ran into a fellow coming back the opposite way- told him he may want to not go any further, there was an elk carcass about 50 yards further down that had been covered up like we see the bear doing here-that's one of the situations you DON"T want to come up on if there's a grizzly near by, lol.
The bear that has his ears pricked forward is the dominant one in almost every case except when they both do and then the fights last longer and are more intense. It was shown in this video that the bear on the kill was dominant and that was signaled by his ears. Where you can see this fact mostly commonly is by watching the grizzlies (coastal brown bear ecotype) battle over fishing spots at Brooks Falls in Katmai Nat. Park. After fights the winners often do a stiff legged walk people call the "Cowboy walk".
Foarte frumos... dar când veniți să filmați și niște urși bruni prin Carpați?
Mi-ar plăcea să vin să vizitez țara mamă și să văd lanțul muntos Carpați. Poate că după toate prostiile astea cu virusul Corona s-au terminat.
Bear covers Elk sleeps on top - other bear swimming by i smell food
wakes up old grumpyass Finds a bit skin on bank
the old decoy worked xd
the 1 like yah got below was me 2 ms L8tr xd
Dude, don't get too close.
also these bears are STUFFED its approaching the end of their fattening up and are stuffed with berries, moths, fish you name it. They eat huge quantities of moths from the branches of the bushes believe it or not.
Best camp with a portable electric bear fence. 2.4 lbs for a good night’s sleep.
Beautiful job!
I was there a couple of days last week, but didn't video any exciting action.
How did you get such great audio without traffic and people sounds? Usually, even a good shotgun microphone will not do a good job of rejecting at 180 degrees.
I wonder what is that ring around the bears neck ? It looks raw like a flesh wound. Almost as if a rope was around his neck from a hanging attempt. Is it a tag or collar ? What is it
Nice profile pic 😎
Ursus arctos horribillis, meaning a mencing powerfull predator! Well it's something like that. Powerful magnificent creature. These bears were once feared throughout the rocky mountains from Canada to Mexico, sadly they were hunted to near extinction. Partly because they were know to be so ferocious, but also because mankind knew very little about them. Found only in small pockets of Wyoming Montana, Idaho and i belive Washington state as well. Small but stable population in the lower 48, BUT still hated by hunters and ranchers who both don't want to share with these magnificent creatures of God. Not to mention the folks who fear them just because they are bears and they are there..hopefully they will be able to sustain.....
It's like they've met before.
The bear audio sounds like it's from another video
Epic!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Action starts at 4:10
we were there just a few days earlier and just saw the one bear....man traffic was jammed up
Just wild!!!😉🇨🇦
Last year in August we were in Hayden Valley and after looking at a herd of bison there was a dead one on the other side of the river with 2 Grizzly bears near it, one of them had a collar. Wonder if it was this same bear? There were crowds of people watching it.
Wow we were there and we saw 2 bears but had to go! That sucks that they fought right after
Could imagine being attacked by one of those monsters. Curtains without a doubt
Amazing
Remarkable
That's Hercules!
Wow - great video - how'd you get such good (and fairly isolated) audio on them?
audio is fake
@@raetz69 Relative and very close to the area. Pretty darn close . Google audio back ground can be perfected to the point of real if you know how to find the sound matching it together.
Looks like they had a bone to pick
🤣🤣
I've hiked that side of the river.
Great quality, love the audio!
Great video. We were there right after the kill. It's great to see what happened many days later. Still a spectacular sight. Thanks for capturing and sharing it. Do you mind me asking what equipment you used to get such stable and clear video?
Aloha Dave. Glad you enjoyed the video. I used my Canon D70 with a Sigma DG 150-500mm telephoto lens w/ Andoer Video Tripod-67" with Hydraulic Head. You can get the tripod on Amazon for around $100 Great tripod for the price. The Canon D70 is about 7 years old now and you can still find them online or used at camera shops. The D70 is still a great camera and in some cases better than some of the newer models.
@@DaveAngelescu Thank you. Impressive what you can do with that equipment.
Did you add all the audio to this video? Lol
been there a few times and i am avid hiker but a person has to be NUTS to go on hikes in that area. I dont give a damn what they say--its playing russian roulette flat out. same as at glacier I hiked ONLY among dozens of other people slower and fatter than me with hot dogs in their pockets on known common hikes.
Any idea if the bear is still there? Would love to see a bear in the park! Great that you saw this and captured it for us to see. An amazing experience for you. Thanks for sharing.
I'm sure the Bears are long gone by now from that location.
I’d give it a chance , they might still be there , been there almost 2 weeks now maybe 3
That bear is lucky there aren’t Nile crocodiles in that part of the world.
So is that 791 in the water?Or,Are these two different bears? And the other guy dug up the kill and moved it up the hill?
Is the Elk going to be ok little Tommy?🤣😂
Cool.
Are these grizzly bears or black bears???
No offense, but may I suggest the next time you add fake audio that it at least matches clips taken from the same area? Maybe take an audio sampling while you are out in the field. The giveaway was the song birds in the background. Yellowstone's birds dont make constant chirping like that.
No offense taken. I did remove the audio because it was filled with chatter, traffic sounds, etc... however... I did isolate the "Grizzly" fight audio and spliced it back into the overlay of the river sound I had recorded from a location afterwards. I thought it came out pretty good and I'm happy with it. Have a great day.
@@DaveAngelescu came out wonderfully!😉😘
I showed up two hours after this 🤨
Yeah I was there that afternoon as well. Missed the fight, but saw the one bear with the collar defending his kill.
I thought grizzly bears were brown. Are these black bears? They look like it.
Karen Dobbs They are both grizzlies. Grizzlies come in a variety of shades of brown and black. Look for the characteristic hump over the shoulders, the dished face in profile, and the rounded “Teddy Bear” ears.
@@jeanettewaverly2590 and also the very visible light almost white claws.
snappingbear Definitely. BIG claws!
Jeanette Waverly thanks. I do see the difference now.
If you noticed you will also see that the first grizzly has a brown collar on and it's been well documented that grizzlies are well ahead of brown bears when it comes to fashion sense. These collars first made there appearance during the 2019 Milan fashion week and it wasn't that long before we saw these on Grizzlies throughout the west, whereas brown bears are always behind fashion trends. This also begs the question on what these two bears where fighting over. I believe the second bear is actually after that collar. They are expensive and he probably is just trying to steal the collar, he certainly doesn't look like he needs another meal!
Why is there a collar around its neck?
Its somebody's pet.
It’s being monitored by the Park biologists - either because it has gotten into trouble with humans or because it’s part of a research project (or maybe both).
@@jeanettewaverly2590 What kind of research justifies subjecting the animal to a 24/7 collar?
mikes2842 Virtually any kind of research that involves knowing where the subjects are at any particular time. It has been SOP in field biology for decades. Those involved with it maintain that the animals become accustomed to the collars and don’t appear to be distressed by them. I have no personal experience with it and am neither arguing for or against it. You asked a question and I strove to answer it as best I could.
@@mountains1233 go hug your unicorn.
I was looking at the bear a couple days ago
Do you remember what time of day this was? We were there that day but we may have just missed this
I want to say around 9:30am
Do crows and other birds have a symbiotic relationship with Grizzly bears?
No, the birds that visit carcasses are scavengers; vacuums of the animal world if you will. They don’t spend their time as a partner with bears they way true symbiotic relationships occur.
That bear buried his food!!
Mike......Tagged by Fish& Game to locate him
Why does the one bear have a collar on?