Apparently a couple transplanted grizzlies decided that home is where the heart is after being transplanted from the Whitefish Range to the Cabinets in northwest Montana. It took them a week to find their way back to the Whitefish Range- and they even crossed Highway 2! Imagine that. I keep hearing that grizzlies don’t cross roads. Amazing isn’t it? What’s even more amazing is that they probably also crossed a hundred forest service roads in addition to that. And maybe they just said to hell with wilderness travel altogether and rode mopeds.
Considering that most of the population learns it’s survival skills from Man vs Wild and Survivor and would probably get lost at least once or more likely die when undertaking such a venture I can see why they think this is such an amazing feat. What I don’t understand is why all these highly trained and educated bear experts really think this is special (it’s a fairly common behavior- but maybe someone is fishing for a job should do a study on it?). Common sense would call to mind a term widely known as “homing”.
hom-ing
-adjective
From the word home.
People kind of form an “attachment” to home. And bears do not?
I get the feeling sometimes that bear experts and policy makers would like public perception to land somewhere between the circus and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
“Ahhh, this porridge is just right,” she said happily and she ate it all up.
