If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.
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enter twine grasp warthog. hoggin wars. hahahaha. rofl.
still waiting hopelessly for full videos of the podcast.
Have you got a picture of the gopro? Would love to see what kind of damage it endured.
bears are clever, not only they know how to do CPR, but also know how to protect their privacy by destroy the GoPro using water.
I thought GoPros were waterproof. Guess I was wrong.
@@Sonny_McMacsson He got some footage from it so only the camera part was destroyed.
Bears definitely use a VPN while browsing to protect their identity!
@@Sonny_McMacsson they might be, before they get chewed on by a bear.
@@Sonny_McMacsson They are, when they haven't been chewed to pieces by a bear.
This video has remained up for an hour and, therefore, is officially Bear-Resistant! Congratulations on successfully thwarting the bears!
RIP footage that wasn't Bear-Resistant.
@@fluffyfang4213 I was just about to say... not ALL of the video was bear resistant
Not bear-proof, though. Given an unlimited amount of time, a motivated bear could definitely find a violation of the community guidelines in this video
I have survived for several years. Therefore, I am bear-resistant.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Maybe don't put that to the test
highly doubt anyone will ever see this, but i actually work here!! me and my coworkers have actually been waiting to see when this video would come out bc we also wanted to see the gopro video, also great to see all the hard work our bears do getting some recognition! for anyone wondering, the bear performing CPR on the trash can is Coram, and the bear who so kindly drowned the gopro is Bo. we were watching our bears for the rest of the day to see if any of them pulled the gopro out of the pond (they didn’t) …and yes, we did know it was likely it would be taken into the pond. that’s our bears’ favorite place to stash things.
Seems like a fun job.
Well done Bo! That is a bear who knows how to do some excellent shenanigans
Was anyone able to recover the GoPro from the pond?
"that’s our bears’ favorite place to stash things."
Bo knows exactly what they were doing lmao!
I feel like Tom’s reaction to finding a bear in his tent would be ”That’s not ideal.”
*Bear slashes his windpipe* Tom, gasping as his lungs fill with blood: "That's, not ideal."
@@OakPotatoo The comma might be a sign of a pause indicated in writing.
@@-Osiris- "Oh dear, I'm being mauled. Could you stop that please?" I feel like a Canadian bear should owe some deference as a member of the Commonwealth. Not an American bear, though.
@@polygontower bingo
@@OakPotatooas a writer: that's, not ideal. It's a completely different length in pauses... You get it, right?
I like how the bear with the GoPro at the end looks less like they're trying to eat it, and more like they've just taken up vlogging.
There was a small part of me that was hoping beyond hope that we'd get the bear's pov
@@thewerebear1if only!
We bare bears irl
the bear puts on a red shirt and starts talking bear facts
@@captainspookybones4423 Hey everyone im a Brumm scott and these are places you might not have known!
Watching a bear give CPR to a trash can was surprisingly delightful. Also, RIP Tom’s GoPro. (EDIT: Turns out it lived after all! See Tom’s follow up video.)
How did he get the video off it?
@@gangstreG123 probably a different gopro that was inside
"They're smart enough not to" There's that overlap again 😅
@@Qsie That made me laugh really hard.
@@xorinzor or maybe they managed to retrieve the SD card from what remained of it ?
My uncle was the engineer and designer for the garbage can at 1:00 as well as the blue one later in the video. They are widely used all over western Canada in our national parks. I didn't realise the design made it all the way to Yellowstone too! He could be solely responsible for saving the lives of countless bears and possibly people.
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That is so cool. We have them here at our local lakes here in BC
In Arizona too
These cans are in use in parks all over the United States, I've seen them along the Blue Ridge Parkway as well
The bears in one section of Yosemite learned to smash open canisters by rolling them off 2,000 foot cliffs. It's amazing how smart they are. Nothing is "bear proof"
it's same idea as waterproof... nothing is truly waterproof... more on resistant... just like the staff said
I reckon an M1A2 Abrams main battle tank would be bear proof... at least for a few days!
What type of canister do you mean?
@@RoyalWolf99 After which we'd have to try to certify things as "bear in a tank resistant"
And only reason bears gives up getting into bear resistant containers is because it's too much energy to get in and they could just go hunting or fishing instead. But if they find a way, they will take it.
That line about intelligence overlap is a classic and I would've been quite disappointed had you overlooked the opportunity to include it here
Yea, sure you expected him to mention it.
That quote is not very accurate though. It's more like a very determined bear that will spend an hour if needed vs. a tourist who can't be bothered to spend more than 20 seconds on it. People need to stop saying other people aren't intelligent. They are. They just can't be bothered because they have other things that they think is more important. For example, that person who put the trash in the trash can's handle probably just wanted to get to where they wanted to go, and didn't want to spend that extra minute figuring out how the handle worked.
@@Vousie A worryingly high percentage of people have a double digit IQ.
@@Arkantos117statistically, roughly half of them. Intelligence is (roughly) a normal distribution with an average of 100...
@@Vousie If you don't want to spend that extra minute figuring out how something works, which is specifically designed to protect you and the wildlife around you, you are very much not intelligent. There is no discussion to be made.
20 percent of americans: I can survive the bear test
An other 20 percent: I just see red and lose control.
An other other 20 percent: I have big gun.
The final 20 percent: What bear?
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@@dynashadow365The remaing 20 percent: Can count to 100.
I love how Tom stays so composed (dare I say British?😂) when the bear stole the Go-Pro: "Oh, no, that's not ideal." I would have used much stronger language 😂
My favorite phrase to use when something has gone horribly wrong is, "Well, that was sub-optimal."
He has 6 million subscribers, he can probably afford another Go-Pro
I'm sure he's well stocked of GoPro's. 😄
Bears are naturally dramatic, they want to be on KZhead too. Maybe we could start a fundraiser for GoPros for Bears?
There is a significant overlap between the eagerness of Tom Scott and the bear to get the GoPro in just the right spot.
When I was a little boy, My parents took me here after our family Yellowstone trip. This was a really cool place as they would allow all of the children that were there for the day to go into the enclosure (without bears) and hide the food/snacks for the bears to find. It was like a weird easter egg hunt where you were the one placing the food and watching a 600-800 pound bear find your specific piece of food that you placed.
That's such a cool, fun way to entertain kids, let them indirectly interact with the bears, and also help keep the bears stimulated and give them the chance to forage.
I love the fact that you specified "without bears"! 😂
@@hannahk1306 then the bears would have a different type of snack. still bite-sized, but very mobile.
As a hiker/camper who has needed to purchase bear-resistant containers, I really enjoy the fact that the industry tried to come up with fabricated certification tests for strength and whatnot, but they could never cover all of the possible bases so just resorted to “give the finished products to some actual bears for a while and see what happens” as the official “laboratory test”.
Not just any bears! These bears qualify as professionals.
@@sealpiercing8476 It's sort of like I.T. firms hiring white hat hackers.
I do find that interesting, these are actually expertly trained bears when it comes to opening containers. Yet they haven’t figured out all the tricks. For example, the classic Bear Vault brand hiking containers are popular because they don’t need a key to open unlike most designs. Yet they are specifically outlawed in some state parks because a local bear figured out how to open one.
These bears are scientists 😂
these bunch of bears graduated from the best schools for scientist okay! they have PhD's in product development.. come onnnn, don't look down on them
They give you free hugs, they know CPR, they even wash your GoPro! Such friendly creatures. 🐻
They make the BEST park greeters for sure! Now THATS hospitality!
And they just love playing football with you, with your head...
And warn about the dangers of forest fires!
If you somehow get stuck in a tree, they’ll gladly help you get down, too.
If not friend, why friend shaped? :)
as someone from the UK the idea of wild bears seems like something out of fiction or ancient history. seeing a wild one in real life must be crazy
Ideally you don't see wild bears 😅
They're in Europe too! They're in northern Scandinavia, much of the Balkans and some even in Spain and Austria. They'll never again be in the British Isles nor anywhere in significant number tho sadly :(
@@Oberon4278seeing bears out in the wild is actually a really magical experience, as long as it's a safe distance at a safe time of year Born and raised in Montana, we get a lot of education on wild animals with our public schooling system with education they're not frightening, you just have to respect them.
@@oldankh That's great for you, since you were raised with an education about how to be safe around them. For other people though...
@@Oberon4278 In what way though? That you made it out of the park alive or became a bear's unsoiled cheeze-less lasagna? :)
Having lived in the mountains for a decade and now about an hour from where this was filmed, on the other side of the park, I fully forgot that this is weird to most people. I used to sell those coolers to tourists entering the parks and have to explain all the different intricacies of how they would be allowed to use them. A Yeti, for example, must have 2 padlocks added in order to be bear resistant. A bear got into a car last summer in my town, ripped it to shreds for whatever yummy snack was hidden inside. Can't put the trash out the night before, has to be morning of pickup. All the cans in town are similar to the ones shown in this video and yes, bears are paying a lot more attention than most tourists.
Seeing as these bears are cpr certified I'd assume they are smarter than a decent amount of humans
Definitely smarter than the average bear. Hey hey!
I'm just thankful they removed the mouth-to-mouth component of CPR.
they can keep it up for 20-40 min ... thats longer than most new medics can ... still rather see the new medic guy cpr someone than these fluffs
"And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive"
They're a bit overenthusiastic about it haha. They put so much heart and energy into it, it would probably make the heart start pumping again, and then flatten it.
Tom being surprised that they let him put a go-pro on the container and then watching why they were okay with it was the funniest thing I've seen today.
That question left hanging of whether or not they foresaw it and let him do it for laughs is one of the things I love about the locals. The, "...that's not ideal," is one of the things I love about the British.
Well he clearly got the footage off it so it worked, GoPro might even have survived that
@@TimSheehan Go pro can stream footage (until they get destroyed) so probably no.
@@velocity5646not at that quality and framerate no, that was definitely off the SD card
Pfft...I'll be impressed when it can upload the video to TikTok. ;)
That's a brilliant solution to the problem of "problem" bears. Also, the amount of drool at 5:01 was clearly the signal that the bear had got the container open.
They are probably still doing it, but 30 years ago at the Yosemite guest services desk, where people check in to get their campsite, there used to be a corkboard full of visitors cars destroyed by bears who broke in to get food stored inside the cars. Their favorite was to climb on the roof and jump up and down a bit to get the windows to break/pop out, then they could get inside the car and grab the bag of food or cooler or whatever.
I love how the ravens seem to know that hanging around the bears can get them a free meal. Imagine the combined problem-solving skills of a corvid and the raw physical power of a bear, they would make quite the team.
If you make the bear's brain as efficient as the crow's and the crow's brain as large as the bear's, they will join forces and take over the planet.
brain and brawn
Corvidae have been known to cooperate with some animals in order to get a meal.
@@glenngriffon8032 Thiiis. They're very good at team work but it seems the bears already have it figured out. They might get some leftovers so that's probably nice. Though they might snitch on which rocks have the treats...
Literally the most popular cooperation is between a raven and a wolf. When they make that bound they usually guarantee the most bountiful hunts possible for eachother.
The CPR method lmao These bears are insanely smart when it comes to food
If they are employed as QA-testers, does that make them QAla-bears?
@@misterrichardc under uprated remark.
Most animals are. Ever seen a cat figure out a handle, or find out where it's food is stored? Hell, my friend's dog once demonstrated that he can win a game of 'get the broom off the human' any time because he knows where to twist and over-rotate a shoulder joint.
Same way they will treat a hooman. Cpr your ribcage to a RIPcage.
whats that german method? the heimlich maneuver? its like a bear hug to clear a clogged airway. ive seen them do this as well to plastic garbage bins
"That's... not ideal." Fantastic response. Thank you, for helping to educate people about wildlife safety and respect. Living close to Banff, in the Canadian Rockies, I can't tell you how often we see tourists trying to get way too close to wild animals. Most of the time, the tourist has a harrowing tale to tell their friends but, too often, the interaction results in an animal having to be put down because humans have stepped over the line and proved your quote regarding the overlap of animal / human intelligence.
I love that the bear found something new and immediately started playing with it (once the food was gone). Shows just how inquisitive they are.
Tom repeating "That is a bear with a GoPro" in despair at the end is the best part of this video.
It is the most British way I can imagine of dealing with the emotions of "bear broke my GoPro and I have no one to blame but myself but I can't start screaming curses in polite company"
"That is not ideal"
@@Ducky69247 LMAO! there is not statement more British than that!
With the Northern way his friends and him act I bet it's more because the Americans there would be offended and Tom is very aware of other people, at times too aware (eg his mayor episode) If you've accidentally let a cuss word slip in front of the wrong audience you'll get me (I have, in AZ, not a jaw was left shut)
Baby with a Gun energy
Impossible to compete in todays work force when even bears have years of product testing experience.
I used to disassemble trash cans for recycling. Never realised I could have been replaced by a bear.
@@YellowSpaceMarine after disassembly would they go into a special meta-trash can?
The specialized expertise of these bears is legitimately important to the process!
Those bears are taking our jobs!
You've got to be smarter than the average bear
As someone who spends a great deal of time in bear country, thanks for this Tom. Getting people to respect wildlife and to learn to live with and share their habitat with them and to NOT put them at risk is incredibly important. If you're looking to do something after your hiatus, perhaps raising awareness about such things would be of interest.
I think it'd be really funny if the national Park services put out videos like "dumb ways to die" to show tourists and out of staters how to respect the land and wildlife
@@oldankh Like trying to hide from one in a wheelie bin that the bear learned to do 10'000 Newton CPR on :)
I really have to appreciate that the transcriber for the subtitles here spelled "picnic" as the very Yellowstone/Yogi-bear appropriate "pick-a-nick". Top-tier subtitles ❤
subtitles will have been supplied, not autogenerated.
@@jnawk83 Yep. Tom Scott pays someone to transcribe the subtitles for all of his videos. And they did great here 😃
I'll never understand how bears can be simultaneously so adorable and so terrifying
They're like latinas
If not friend, why friend shaped?
I think it's partly because their faces sort of resemble dogs, who have human-friendly associations, plus they're one of the easiest mammals to anthropomorphize due to them standing on two legs sometimes. As for the terrifying part, well, if you're a predator that big you probably gotta be good at doing what you do.
@@222tg_ 🤣🤣🤣🤔
You haven't spent enough time with toddlers. They're equal parts adorable and terrifying.
Bear-resistant? They should add the label "tourist-proof".
Maybe that would make the tourist who couldn't figure out the latch try a bit harder. (Maybe look at the diagram ON THE HANDLE explaining it? That really bugged me.)
Not tourist-proof, just tourist resistant.
@@SnakebitSTI give a tourist enough time, they will figure out another method to put the rubbish in the bin. But not the intended method
I like how well cared for these bears are, Respect to the team operating
The Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center rehabilitates animals (they have more than wolves and bear) from Yellowstone Park which were injured or needed removal due to to many interactions with humans. They do a great job, and represent your best chance to see these larger animals up close. Even in the park it's very rare to see them, especially up close (aside from bison/buffalo). If you're visiting Yellowstone, I'd highly recommend spending some time at the Center. It's well worth the admission fee.
3:04 - I died when he said the CPR method. Don't play dead, the bear will attempt to revive you.
Seeing a bear performing CPR on a solid wheelie bin and making it buckle like that with no effort really drives home how heavy and strong they are.
They are actually stronger than that would lead you to believe. Bears are terrifyingly powerful!
That bear moved on from unboxings to vlogging and so far its going well!
"That's not ideal" is the best understatement ever when it comes to bears. My brother used to live somewhere where they'd be snuffling around his bins but they were never quite motivated enough to tear them to bits, mainly because he used a separate thing for food waste. They're still incredible to see up close!
This seems topical for me, I’ve been really getting into backpacking lately so have done a lot of research on bear safety lately. The debate of how to store your food at night when food lockers aren’t available: do you hang it in a tree? Carry a heavy certified bear vault? Use a special Kevlar bag that the bear can chew on but not rip open? A combination of them? It’s cool to see the sort of place where these methods are actually tested.
If you're hiking in certain national forests, the choice is made for you: you are legally required to use a bear-proof container. Each forest has their own regulations for which particular containers they will allow, so you have to look it up ahead of time.
Hanging in a tree will 100% not work, bears are surprisingly good at climbing!
Hike with dogs.
@@thekinginyellow1744Ah, give the bear an alternative to getting into your food supply....
the way i cackled at the bear playing with the gopro lmao, genuinely one of the funniest things i've seen in ages. also i love that the bears have a job now
hard workers!!!!!!!!
@@shpup more like hardly workin' amirite? eyyyyyy, I'll be here all week.
@@SethiKinsGaming boooooooo get off the stage 🍅🍅🍅🍅
If only it was still recording. 😊
Get too close to human food containers, boom you've got a 9 to 5 job, everyone's staring at you and your bosses won't even talk to you. Truly, a fate worse than death.
Another KZheadr would have titled this ‘I accidentally gave a bear a GoPro’ or ‘how a grizzly stole my GoPro’, but Tom always seems to respect the seriousness of his videos and the people in them.
but not for the "least intelligent tourists"
@@naaat at least that one's a quote, not his own words.
Ironically, I was much more interested in what the “Bear Test” was than I would have in a video of a bear having a GoPro.
hate youtuber titling in 2023
Honestly those titles would still be fine. Plenty of channels would do something like "RIPPED TO PIECES! BEAR goes on a RAMPAGE and STEALS CAMERA" and then there's a thumbnail of a bear attacking a cameraman, with red arrows all over the place and an annoying face looking at the camera like 😱
Thanks for taking the time to show us a good place that respects the bears and in fact helps solve the issues instead of exacerbating them, that's the type of thing that makes you so special, Tom!
Thank you for covering this Tom, I know your almost done and yet you're still knocking it out of the park with cool, fun, and educational concepts. I love this manner of protecting the bears and their wild nature, whilst also helping and educating humans.
What I've learned watching Tom Scott: - A GoPro looking directly at multiple suns worth of light & heat will barely notice - A bear can destroy a GoPro Either bears can defeat the sun or we just discovered a cool new set of rock paper scissors
gopro beats ☀️, ☀️ beats 🐻, 🐻 beats gopro
@@kf10147 I wouldn't know where to begin with the hand signs for these.
@@KyleJMitchell bear is claw-hands, sun is extended fingers, gopro is rock
I’m now tempted to, without explanation, suggest playing “gopro sun bear” next time there is something that requires resolution via rock paper scissors. Also mildly tempted to teach the kids I babysit to play gopro sun bear.
Sun vs a million bears
I know this video is about bears, but I say we should give those ravens some appreciation too Edit: Seems like the consensus in the replies is that they are ravens, not crows!
Those are definitely Ravens
Funny thing. Those ravens more or less have chased away the other birds in the West Yellowstone area. In the park proper you can absolutely see more birds. But in town? Its almost solely those ravens.
@@mathbookheroWell that doesn’t surprise me. Ravens are smart, they’ve definitely figured out that the presence of humans means easy food so of course they’d chase the other birds out of town, they’re big enough to do it
@@JacobPDeIiNoNiIt's like the seagulls at my local aquarium. Their presence at the outdoor enclosures is constant.
@@snakefinnI once saw a small croup of seaguls kill a crow by swooping at it and forcing it to land in a lake. They then went on swooping at it until it stopped moving and drowned.
It was really cool meeting you! I hope they were able to get that camera back and send it to you.
From a country that doesn’t have bears I’m shocked that their claws are that thick and long. 😮
You should see what they can do to a deer carcass.
@@zerentheunskilled with their claws?
@@zerentheunskilled they don’t kill deer though do they?
@@bari2883only when hungry and can't find a human.😂.
My dad used to work as a campground ranger at Glacier National Park, which also has grizzly bears. He told me of an incident where a hunter got into an altercation with a grizzly bear, the hunter shot the bear *through the heart*, and the bear turned and ran for a solid 20 minutes before it collapsed and died. That hunter was very lucky to survive.
That's a problem I'd never have considered without this video.
For those of us who live in bear country, it is a problem we consider a lot 😅
It's a problem I was faced with just yesterday. :)
@@Stevie-J yep, that's politics for ya'. the whole thing's a sham, just people on every side trying to do their own thing without considering how their _own_ citizens are affected.
If you're staying a national park, you'll need a bear resistant cooler. Most achieve certification with the addition of combination locks. We've set ours to 0-0-0-0 and, so far, the bears have not cracked the code. The exterior shell of the cooler, however... well, they cracked that.
@Stevie-J what on earth are you rambling on about
The moral for me is there's a strong correlation between motivation and the utilization of intelligence, for both bears and humans.
Also practice, and luck. Bear (heh) in mind that the bears who test this stuff are pulled from the subset of wild bears who already broke into something.
Absolutely! Huge chunks of intelligence are pattern recognition and novel problem solving. Motivation is a problem solving equation about effort/risk versus perceived reward, which relies heavily on both pattern recognition and the fluid reasoning to imagine more effective or more efficient ways of accomplishing the goal.
From personal observation, my money's on the bears
Well I mean, of course right? Our intelligence only exists to keep us alive, and it expends energy to use, so clearly no animal would survive this long if it was predisposed to wasting that energy on things with no reward.
@@libertyprime1997 The existence of huge racks of antlers (far larger than is practical as a weapon) demonstrates that things can be a lot more complicated than that.
"The CPR method" and "clean up on aisle four" great sense of humor! Love it.
That was tremendously interesting and a delight to watch. Love that Tom has concern for the bears welfare too.
I hope these bears are paid well
It's free lai-bear
They had stock in Bear Stearns so now they’re bankrupt
They get room and board and have quite relaxed working hours. Additional payment they have to take from the visitors *g*
cheese tax
They’re amateur bears.
That quote by the park ranger is so savage, yet so true “There is a considerable overlap between the brainpower of the most intelligent bears and the least intelligent tourists”
A park ranger I met a few weeks ago in Canada phrased it as "There is considerable overlap between smart bears and dumb people". After all, there's no reason to assume only tourists lack intelligence.
The quote is such a good bit of folk lore/wisdom. Another version trades out intelligent for motivated. Though more likely accurate, it's not as funny. "There's considerable overlap between the most motivated bears and least motivated tourists."
It reminds me of the saying amongst health and safety professionals that goes something like 'Never underestimate the ingenuity of an idiot', meaning that if you make something that it is impossible to get your head trapped in someone somehow will surprise you by getting their head trapped in it.
@@krashdor my fav “You can’t fix stupid, but you can sedate it.”
Bears repeating.
Your video's always are very good. The topics, the shooting and the representation. Thank you for uploading.
Another great and educational video! Great to see the amazing work going on to protect both tourists and bears. P.S. I loved the cheeky "pick-a-nick" Yogi Bear nod in the subtitles @1:16.
This is an ongoing battle. I live in an area bears frequent and the ways they’ve gotten into the garbage stuns me. I currently use an electric fence generator attached to chicken wire wrapped over the top of my bin. Seems to be working so far…
"so far"
@@placeholdername0000 it's like the video says: bear resistant, not bear proof
Wait until bears develop guns
I had a bear get into one of those 1970's steel Coleman coolers in New Hampshire long ago. No damage to it either, he just opened it up and got down to breakfast.
@@effbar2400 there's a reason we have the right to arm bears
Having lived in Lake Tahoe for a year I can attest to the skills of bears to get into many things considered bear-proof. Mostly the problem was with tourists not knowing how to be extra careful about the bears, as long-term residents are well aware and also have great affection for the bears.
I will fix your sentence. The problem is tourists.😊
Thanks for keeping the videos coming Tom! 👍🏻
There's a grizzly bear sanctuary outside of Bozeman Montana that I went to once. They house bears that for various reasons can't be wild bears. Now, fun fact, a Grizzly is a type of brown bear just a really *big* type of brown bear. I didn't get to see this feet myself but the guide said that to demonstrate what a grizzly can do they used an earth mover to place a 4 ton bolder on top of their largest bear's favorite treats. The bear casually tipped the bolder with one arm and scooped the yummies from underneath with his other paw. The ranger said that if you want to know if a bear can get into something, ask yourself if a smart 7 year old kid that can bench press a truck could do it. If the answer is yes than the bear _can_ get in it.
West Yellowstone is a tourist trappy western American town, but the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center was definitely worth the visit when we visited the National Park. They also have a sanctuary for injured birds of prey which was fascinating in of itself.
West Yellowstone has to make most of their money in the short summer season. Whenever there's s short season you get touristy. I've seen worse.
@@mueslii8189 What are the approximate dates? Months will work. My favorites are Sequoia National Park, some of the biggest trees on Earth. Death Valley National park. Bryce Canyon and Canyonlands National park. Yosemite (nice by sometimes crowded) Grand Canyon (very crowded at times) Will you be renting a car?
a car is essential - i would also reccomend Mt. Rainier national park i. WA state. Bryce and grand canyon are great, but they’re both southwest. If you really are staying in the NW area (like WA, OR, CA, MT, ID) Mt Rainier, Sequoia, Yosemite, etc. are your best bets.
@@mueslii8189 Zion is in Utah and it is *spectacular*. It might be a bit outside of your range, however - depends on where you'll be traveling.
@@mueslii8189you got lots of recommendations already, but I'll throw in glacier national park. (Waterton national park is connected and north of the border).
I'm one of the keepers at GWDC! I'm so glad yall decided to come down and do a but on our bears!
Your bears looked healthy and happy. That's cool.
Thank you for you important work!
I’m glad you mentioned the quote. It’s one of my favorite quotes of all time. :)
I live in an area with a lot of bears and tourists and that old adage is very true! Thanks for talking about the bears Tom!
Let us not forget the sacrifice of Doug, the brave GoPro who gave his life for this video.
I remember that we got a dog toy that said tiger tested, the dog shredded it in a month. Must not have been tiger approved.
Just because it was tested doesn't mean it passed! I've come across that phraseology in nuclear instrumentation. Their claim that it was "tested" falls apart when you start reading their reluctantly-supplied test report.
A month is also *long* time for a chew toy if they used it every day.
Yes it was. Tiger is a chihuahua.
"We have been rated by the highest testing authority." "And you passed, right?" "I assure you they gave us exactly the rating our quality deserves"
Thank you for spotlighting this establishment. Planning a trip to that area soon and just added this to the itinerary.
Great video! Bears are *very* intelligent! I remember seeing footage of a bear trying to get food from a waste-container (I can't remember the exact shape of it) but it literally "posted" one of its cubs into the entry-bit of the container (just as you would post a letter) and the cub grabbed the food and popped it out to the big bear waiting outside! Amazing!
Bear takes a go pro for a walk into the water. Tom says "That's not ideal". The most British thing I have heard you say.
The 'CPR Method' is the cutest thing I've seen this week!
This was a great video, thank you Tom!
I love how from the bears' perspective eating human food is like eating one of Hades's pomegranates - you then get stuck in the human world for a season.
As a medical student, I must applaud these bears' CPR technique - very nice and consistent!
I believe the bears sing “Stayin Alive” to maintain their timing.
Now we need to teach them to dial 911, to call for help
Buh, buh, buh ... another box bites the dust!
Posssibly a little bit too forceful
@@Fenrir1they told me to not worry about broken bones when I got CPR certified
3:14 - That bear salivating in anticipation is as cute as it is terrifying. These bears are way more experienced at opening these things than random ones in the wild, so I imagine this is a pretty harsh test.
This video was an absolute delight to watch. I hope the sanctuary might think around to streaming some more bear vs container testing; it’s a good watch!
The world needs more Tom Scotts to tell these stories ❤
About the brainpower overlap thing... It's already hard enough to convince many people to put their rubbish in a bin to start with, whereas the bear gets a food reward if they can break in. I think if you were to put a $1,000 reward inside a bin, there wouldn't be many tourists without the mental faculties to work out how to open it.
There would tho
But there would be some. And that's enough to keep bears coming back for trash.
Can't deny its a great way to test if products meet the "bear minimum" requirements 😄
Thanks Tom, that was brilliant, Cheers
Finally! A place I've been to BEFORE Tom Scott made a video about it!
The fact that the flight attendant had to tell everyone to not feed the bears is objectively so funny to me
It would make a good comedy skit; flight attendant tells everyone to not feed the bears, passengers disembark, passengers re-embark in a panic, being chased by bears. Flight attendant says, "OK, who's got the peanut butter sandwich?".
The phrase "don't feed the bears" is delivered with completely unhumorous intent yet it's the most hilarious thing ever.
"Be bear aware!"
"chest compressions. chest compressions. chest compressions" apparently also the bear mantra to getting food out of a trash can 🤣🤣🤣 Also, RIP Tom's Gopro. It was worth it though. Loved the close up footage of the live teddy bears.
The bears are singing along with The Bee Gees' “Stayin' Alive” .
1:17 very subtle Yogi "pic-a-nic baskets" reference 😄🐻
i love everything about this video and now demand a full feature length documentary
I hike quite often in black bear country. They're magnificent and beautiful creatures. Don't feed them, A fed bear is a dead bear. They're also bloody nuisances. Bleack bears virtually never attack humans, (the boars will charge, but they're bluffing). Still, getting your gear shredded and your food eaten when you're 30+ km from support can be nearly as bad. I carry a carbon fibre canister for food and rubbish. Once or twice, I've seen evidence that a critter has played with it, but the lore is that they do eventually learn that it's pointless to attack the carbon fibre ones. There are several brands of commercial bear canister that are NOT approved where I hike, because there was a genius bear sow who figured out how to open that type. (Incidentally, a human needs a screwdriver to accomplish the task.) Even though she was made into stew a few years back, she taught her cubs, and now there are bears all over the area that know how to open them. I used to be able to get away with hanging a bag from a tree on a branch too small to support a bear's weight, and with nothing accessible at ground level, so that I'd need to use a trekking pole to fish the line down in the morning. But the mama bears have learnt to send a cub up a tree to bite through the line and bring down the bear piñata.
Damn, child labour wins the day again. I mean, what?
Good for her though, pinata fun with the kiddos.
Untrue about attacks. Today bears are proliferating in the northeast due to excessive hunting restrictions and speeding into inner suburbs and even cities (and NOT because we are invading “their” territory.”) A small child was mauled recently at a backyard birthday party in densely populated metro town. Due to political correctness and trendy ignorant pseudo environmentalist social media, more confrontations are inevitable.
I went to Yellowstone once, and can't wait to go again, and the sheer number of individuals who CAN'T FOLLOW THE RULES is exceptionally high. There are signs in many languages, there are tour guides, there are visual aids, and still, people think wild animals are there for their entertainment. Thankfully, while I was there, no one was killed by a buffalo (bison) or by walking into the hot springs or anything else super easy to avoid but it still happens... it's annoying, honestly, how "dumb" people are. Not in an intellectual disability way, just in an ignorant, selfish, and lazy way. I cleaned up my trash, I avoided interacting with wildlife, I kept my bug sprays to myself... :/ I love big animals and seeing their intelligence and how, if given time and space, they could match toddlers and children in terms of communication and problem-solving. I've seen some dumb humans (I've worked in customer service and human resources for going on a decade) and most can't problem-solve for the life of them. I know some SMART people with PhDs and tenure and books that can't convert PDFs, that can't figure out how to effectively google something, that can't retain information and that can't save things for later. I'm fairly average intelligence-wise, I have terrible short-term memory, especially post-COVID, but like... some stuff doesn't have to be obvious if it's stated multiple times and there are reminders everywhere. Especially if it's life or death.
I live near Yellowstone and the amount of tourists that end up gored or dead each tourist season is ridiculous. I wish more would follow the well established rules made for everyone's safety, including the wildlife. It can be very frustrating.
One of our oldest laws is centered around overthrowing the rules with lethal force. That should say enough about what americans think about them. People don't even care that much about eachother nowadays. How you gonna expect them to care about animals?
It's astonishing how many people can't seem to tell the difference between the wilderness and a theme park.
@@llssff1It’s not just a problem with Americans. Yellowstone gets tourists from across almost the entire planet, which in turn means that the morons who end up hurting or killing themselves by not following basic rules likewise are a cross section of the population of the whole planet
My brother in law worked at Yellowstone for a few seasons. He had a book called Death in Yellowstone that just listed all the ways people have died in the park, chapter by chapter with several pages of examples for each. It is not a good insomnia read.
your videos are one of the best on youtube by far tom.
The overlapping intelligence quote is one of my all time favorites
I would have assumed something like this existed but I wouldn't think they used actual bears. This is a really interesting example of using what you've got.
it is also kind of funny that by buying bear proof coolers you indirectly support a bear conservatory. Sure, per product that might be cents, but it adds up and if it can withstand a bear for an hour, it might even withstand the 200 pounds gorillas at the beach.
It makes a lot of sense, really.
This is the only way to do it. Any other method would involve making assumptions about how a bear thinks, and we simply don't understand their brains well enough to do that. The only way to accurately simulate how a bear thinks is to use a real bear.
@@sarowie Your last bit about the "gorillas at the beach" got me. That's a good one.
I appreciate those sorts of "finding uses for animals that can't be in the wild" endeavors. The wildlife refuge/museum near where my parents live introduces all their animals at live demonstrations with their history and why they're permanent residents. Temporary animals are kept isolated from humans as much as possible.
"I got Tom Scott's GoPro! I love that guy"
I went here a few summers back before actually going into the park and I highly recommend seeing this place before going into Yellowstone. It gives you a great sense of what would happen and what would be trying to get into your stuff and the employees are very great at educating you on best practice. Just in general support this amazing non-profit
I don't know why but this is my favourite thing I've watched on KZhead for a while.
Haha I gave National Park Ranger talks at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center there over 10 years ago! Loved that place! We had a partnership with them where we could give Park talks there.
I honestly wanna see such high quality footage of bears just being bears! The footage you got was very amusing!
i see...
check out "unedited footage of a bear"
That single opening shot was brilliant, including the cameraman not getting themself in the door's reflection!
I'm very happy that you included the supposed quote by a supposed park ranger. It's one of my all time favorite jokes whether it's true or not, and if you hadn't included it, I would have commented it anyways. Also a very enjoyable video 😊
Thank you to the subtitler who transcribed the pick-a-nick basket reference 🥰
5:34 - 'That's... not ideal.'
It looked so adorable and relateable in those last few seconds where it was investigating the shiny :D
I live in Canada, admittedly in the more settled part of Southern Ontario. It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't realize wild animals are just that, 'wild'; even here in Canada. To them your as much a treat as any rabbit or deer they might get their paws on.
Many go-pros were harmed in the making of this film. Bears are completely fine, though.
The Bear Test: The Most Fierce Test Of Them All
Nom nom
You might even say, the one Test to rule them all
At least one person(me) appreciates the non-clickbait thumbnail which still draws attention and is interesting. Sincerily, thank you for stepping out of line and having a pair. I soley subscribe to/view said courageous channels. All others go directly into the nearest trash recepticle without hesitation.