This video is a real nail-biter! Endangered Mexican Black Bears (momma and cub) climb the vertical walls of Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park. Black bears were common in Big Bend’s Chisos Mountains were common in the early part of the 20th century, but when the area was established as a National Park in 1944, bears had virtually disappeared due to hunting and loss of habitat. They remained a rare sight until the late 1980s, when visitors began reporting their remarkable return to Big Bend. It is suspected that a female black bear traveled from from the Sierra del Carmen mountains in Northern Mexico across miles of desert, even swimming the Rio Grande to reach the forested Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park. Why the bears returned is anyone’s guess, but the park’s preserved habitat has made them residents ever since. Read more: wilderness.org/blog/climbing-only-one-reason-big-bends-bears-are-remarkable
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:49:09 +0000
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