{"id":10695,"date":"2015-05-11T16:41:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T22:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonegate.com\/?p=10695"},"modified":"2015-05-11T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T22:42:23","slug":"black-bears-on-bridge-too-close-for-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonegate.com\/?p=10695","title":{"rendered":"Black bears on bridge too close for comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5OrnHISGqi0?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The latest viral video out of Yellowstone National Park is a great reminder of why you should stay 100 yards from bears, and exercise special caution around bridges, rivers and other places where moving around gets riskier and more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows a black bear with cubs running around amidst several tourists on a bridge between Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo. and Cooke City, Mont. according to Brett French of the Billings Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>A worker with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks posted the video on YouTube, and it has received more than 220,000 views as of Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Park rangers and wildlife experts routinely warn that mother bears with cubs are among the most potentially dangerous animals you&#8217;re likely to encounter in Yellowstone country. So it&#8217;s a relief no one was hurt in this encounter.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it looks like the mother bear just wanted to get her cubs away from the scrum of people, which is perhaps a wiser impulse than that shown by some of the mother (and father) humans in the clip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest viral video out of Yellowstone National Park is a great reminder of why you should stay 100 yards from bears, and exercise special caution around bridges, rivers and other places where moving around gets riskier and more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows a black bear with cubs running around amidst several tourists on a bridge between Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo. and Cooke City, Mont.<\/p>\n<p>A worker with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks posted the video on YouTube, and it has received more than 220,000 views as of Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,312],"tags":[301,128,315],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black bears on bridge too close for comfort - Yellowstone Gate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowstonegate.com\/?p=10695\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black bears on bridge too close for comfort - Yellowstone Gate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The latest viral video out of Yellowstone National Park is a great reminder of why you should stay 100 yards from bears, and exercise special caution around bridges, rivers and other places where moving around gets riskier and more difficult.  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