Sunday, February 22, 2009

Sunday Funnies; Volume 52

The photo below captures a disturbing trend that is beginning to affect wildlife in the U.S. After only one month of the Obama administration, animals that were formerly self-sufficient are already modifying their behavior to take advantage of what they expect to be a new set of societal norms in the next four to eight years.
This black bear from Montana has ceased hunting for a living and is sitting outside the US Fish & Wildlife Service office in Kalispell, apparently waiting to be fed and to have his winter den dug by government employees. The residents of Kalispell are calling him 'Bearack Obama'.

4 comments:

Pollyanna said...

I love it...thanks for the laugh!

Jay Moreno said...

You're welcome.

Jay Moreno said...

I have to wonder: Did that bear observe people sitting at that table and eating and put two and two together?

Pollyanna said...

When bears get around people they can really do some bizarre things. My cousin lives in Lake Tahoe and works for the county road dept as an admin asst. She got her photo on the front page of the newspaper when one day she was sitting at her desk which was right under a window and looked up to find a large grizzly looking in the window at her...she froze and asked her boss to come from the other room...when he arrived and saw the bear looking in the window at her he told her to stay put...she thought he was going to do something to scare the bear off...he returned a few seconds later with a camera and got a great shot of her sitting at her desk eyeball to eyeball...then he called some of the crew and got them to chase the bear off...but the photo made the front page of the Lake Tahoe newspaper. She also caretakes a large ski chalet that belongs to a Disney producer across the street from her...a couple of years ago, a bear got inside and totaled the place...so sometimes wild animals really need to be off in the wild and not so close to humans. We took a trip to Glacier National Park a couple of years ago and the ranger told us we would see no bears in the area where the cabins were as they were trained intentionally to stay up on the mountain...the National Park Service feeds them where there are not people to eliminate the problem that has been created in other National Parks. He was right...the only live animal we saw during our entire visit was a chipmunk:)