Today is a no-work day; not a day off, just a no work will be accomplished day. Not even a little bit. Why? I’ve discovered the Live cams of brown bears gorging on very fresh salmon at Brooks Falls on Katmai National Park in Alaska.
P. S. They have other live cams, too
Also see …
No one wants to see zombie bears! 
Well, there’s that 
I kind of want to see zombie bears.
This makes me a little nostalgic for my old workplace. Pre-pandemic, the school secretary and I were together in a huge space. When the district bought new Promethean boards (think high-tech projector), one of the old models came to rest in the office and she hooked her laptop to it because she liked to have a TV on while she worked. We needed programming that was middle-school appropriate and not too distracting for me, so she would put it on various zoo and wildlife camera feeds. We watched bears all one fall.
Maybe this will motivate me to get a feed going on my TV while I do housework!
I checked out the live cam and I saw two bears mating, right in the water where they were feeding! I guess it didn’t occur to me that to have baby bears in the spring that they would need to breed now while the food supply was going strong. That part of the feed was probably not safe for work.
Bear skin & a shag…just tell your co-workers you’re looking at rugs…
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I just saw two put their face down into the water & lift it up with a fish in their mouth. The fish literally swam into the Jaws of Death
I just checked it out and within about 20 seconds saw a bear taking a big ol’ dump in the river. Dude, you’re eating out of there! I thought even animals understood that you don’t crap where you eat. He was clearly not smarter than the average bear 
Some things are just assumed to be given facts, like the pope is catholic. Didn’t anyone ever tell them that its a given fact that bears shit in the woods? I guess just like people, if you put a camera out there someone will have sex or show there hind end to it. And here I thought that bears were more sensible than humans. 
That thread, while relatively unsuccessful as far as responses, keeps coming back from the dead. My legacy lives!
I didn’t expect the camera to pan and zoom. Who is operating it?
(cool site)
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I suppose a couple of those bears might have dies and been re-animated in just 4 years but most those bears are probably still alive. All the salmon in that video that weren’t consumed by the bears would have been dead soon afterwards and could have become zombies by now were there some mechanism re-animating dead salmon. Personally I’m not in favor of re-animating any animals. The documentary Pet Sematary details the problems that arise.
I’m surprised that this and Fat Bear Week are popular, considering that a grizzly ate two Canadians last week, not to mention their dog.
I wonder whether the dog was the appetizer or the dessert course?
I remember being at a zoo many years ago, and two llamas were mating. The young kids asked their teacher what they were doing, and she said they were fighting.
This is my best zoo sex story:
This reminded me of, not a zoo story, but an amusing animal sex story I experienced as a kid I hadn’t thought about in years. I guess this is as good a place to share it as any:
I was maybe 10 or 11, watching TV with my little sister. It was some violent scene in a movie or cop show, a shootout, I think. We were just watching what was on, zombie-like, since there were only about 7 channels in those days.
Our mom walks in the room and says “This is much too violent. Let’s find something better for you to watch”. She changes channels until she finds a nature show, probably on PBS. “Ah, something wholesome and educational. Perfect”. And she sits down to watch with us.
It was a show about baboons in the wild. About 30 seconds after she had changed to the show, a male baboon goes up to a female and starts vigorously, um, mating with her. It was full-on animal porn. Meanwhile, the narrator, in a plummy British accent, is saying “…the male mounts the female again and again while she is in heat…”
Such a range of things going through my mind then. First and foremost, excruciating embarrassment, watching that with my mom. No less for her, too, of course-- she was clearly mortified but didn’t want to immediately change the channel again, admitting defeat. And, in the back of my kid mind, part of me also saw the humor in it-- I may not have been familiar yet with the exact saying “be careful what you wish for”, but at that moment I sure understood the concept-- mom wanted us to watch something more educational, and she definitely got her wish.