Wildlife camera shows N.W.T. tundra teeming with life -- including a powerful grizzly [View all]
After retrieving more than 300 SD cards from wildlife cameras spread out over Thaidene Nëné Indigenous Protected Area in the N.W.T. at the end of the summer, it was obvious to Iris Catholique which one to look at first.
The iron post that camera had been fastened to was bent at a 90-degree angle, and people involved in the biodiversity monitoring project were trying to guess what animal could have inflicted the damage.
"Once they figured out it was a grizzly bear ... it kind of puts in perspective like actually how strong they are," said Catholique, the Thaidene Nëné manager for Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation. "This is iron. Angle iron. And the bear totally mangled it."
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Images from the camera show a grizzly bear wandering up to the device one morning in May. The animal disappears from view, and suddenly the camera's angle turns about 90 degrees. The grizzly bear ambles away.
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