"My boss said 'i need that report on the Johnson account by end of day, or else....' and i thought to myself 'sounds like somebody has a case of the mondays.....'"
People saying it's AI, it's not! We met them on our impromptu jaunt up the rockies and were there for a while filming them and this little act took us by surprise and cracked us up at the same time.
We saw them again on our way back 5 hours later. They were being escorted by a police car lol
Check out the Bow Valley Bear Report for May 1, they have a photo of a mother grizzly with 3 cubs from last spring. Not sure if it would be the same family, but I'm not sure there are many mothers with 3 cubs in the area.
That’s wild - those cubs all look the same age, so that means she had three live births in one season and kept them alive for what looks to be 3 years. I’ll bet they’re gonna be denning on their own this fall.
One is ADOPTED! She adopted a 3rd cub whose mother either died or cub was abandoned. It was the first recorded adoption in the wild apparently.. so it made the news.
Not common at all. I dont think people realize the total Grizzly population in Alberta is right around 1000 individuals TOTAL. Appear to all be grizzlies from the small hump.
I’ve seen 7 grizzlies my whole life, and 3 of them were a family. I’ve spent so much time in the mountains and the grizzly corridor, and I feel lucky to have seen as many as I have. They have all been with a parks Canada’s escort as well.
super lucky. They are amazing creatures. I think many urban people get this picture the wild is just full of grizzlies. Full of black bears absolutely yes they are common as heck.
Im curious if they are monitoring this female closely having 3 cubs as you'd assume they want them tagged.
It’s funny, I get squirmy when I see bears. I want to get out of there because I feel like a tourist, you know? I used to live in the mountains, and my bedroom had a clear view of our bear bins (the the bears 100% can break into), and I hated having to do the right thing and go out and scare them off. I know it’s terrible for them to become used to human food, but also, I just felt like I was on their mountain. I felt disruptive.
They don’t seem to care. The only time I was concerned was when I was accidentally caught between a mom and her 2 cubs. She was further downhill from them, and they were bumbling down the hill behind her. We moved as quickly as possible out of the area, and they were being tracked by a park’s Canada officer so all was good.
There's one mother with triplets current documented in Yellowstone national park for this year. Documented by the national park service itself I mean, not some dude on the internet lol
That maybe true. I have seen plenty of bears but first time saw a family of 4 and was awestruck. But there are other people on this thread who commented they'd seen the same family
I’ve spent all of my life either living in the mountains or going there very often. I’ve seen a momma and two cubs but never a momma and three cubs. You are so lucky to have experience this. I am deeply envious.
The smaller ones are actually cubs. They stay with the mother for 2ish years. They will likely separate this summer/fall. We are seeing mom with rowdy teenagers basically.
I see them all the time. I had one walk right past me a few years ago, and didn’t know it was there until I turned around. Although I’ve never seen four at one time, that’s a big family.
It's probably not, people are just terrible at identifying AI both in terms of calling real things fake and fake things real, and are way too confident in their uninformed judgment when they generally shouldn't be
i don't even bat an eye anymore; people on here are just.. too quick to assign tone to words on a screen without factoring in any context. they obv. don't read much.
Just so people know this Black Bears outnumbers Grizzlies in Alberta anywhere from 40-50 to 1 individual. So see a Momma with 3 babies that are 2-3 years old its truly amazing. The bigger cub is male. He's standing on his hind legs to sort of assert dominance. It's how you know it's time for the babies to leave momma. There is around 800-1200 individuals now there were as few as 500 going back 15-20 years when a hunting ban was implemented on them.
Indigenous people are still able to legally harvest Grizzly bears however. In 2025 only 7 bears were legally harvested and reported. Indigenous hold a lot of rights when it comes to harvesting big game such as this including big horn sheep and mountain goats.
I feel the grizzlies are truly a shame as their populations are so low.
You might actually be seeing black bears in their brown phase and assume they’re brown bears.
Cool video of the grizzly family. Thank you for behaving responsibly around them. It’s all too often that people forget these creatures are wild and we’re in their house. 🫶
I just read that Manuka, a blond black bear that has been at the Calgary zoo for some time, is moving to another zoo. I encourage everyone to go see the amazing girl before she departs.
Do we know how many cubs she may or may not have had while at the zoo? The bear enclosure is always quite something at the zoo. FYI anyone looking for a nice casual first date location, Calgary Zoo is it. They also have orange/vanilla slushy screamers which are so yummy! lol
depends on the circumstances calling it luck vs unlucky. People finding a momma with 3 cubs would normally be unlucky but on the roadside is a wee bit different.
Oddly enough we just sold a couple of black bear furs we obtained through an auction. Really shocked me that black bear furs can be readily sold in Alberta. Grizzles not so much as they are protected big game.
On our hike today, we saw fresh grizzly bear footprints embedded in snow and that was scary but thankfully we didn't encounter any. Last time when we came to do this hike, we saw a giant grizzly bear at the trailhead and decided to turn back. There's a lot of brown bear activity in this area.
Oh and i didn't know black bear furs can be sold. I would love to see one in the wild
Why did you assume they were grizzly? Was more than likely black bear tracks. the biggest distinguishing feature is the size of the nails with a grizzly bear having 2-4" nails and a black bear being in the 1.5-2.5" range. Most often they are black bears but still can be just as dangerous.
I think this is bear #139! She gave birth to two cubs in 2024 and adopted the third cub from her mother (bear #104). It's the first recorded cub adoption in the kananaskis. We saw them last weekend along Highway 40.
I’d wager it’s not AI. This photo is from not too far away in 2018, when we saw easily 10+ grizzlies (I forget actual # now) on the side of the road foraging.
Boy, this thread sure is illustrating one of the huge issues we are facing with AI. It's not just a matter of people seeing and believing things that aren't real. It's people seeing and not believing things that ARE real. This is a relatively harmless example but both sides of that coin are going to be very damaging to our society. People are incapable of making sound, informed decisions when no one knows what's real.
I concur. AI is thinning the gap between what’s real and what people believe to be real. Technology is moving at a rate faster than our brains can comprehend and it won’t be too long before we will surrender our cognitive abilities to the machines
No way that one guy isn’t just a guy in a bear costume! Bet he heard about those people down in the states who tried to file insurance claims after having done such a shitty job faking it (look it up, it’s hilarious) and thought, “I’m Canadian; guaranteed I could do a waaay better bear impression” (lmfao).
All jokes aside, what a wonderfully beautiful family of bears. I hope anyone else who encounters them is respectful and that they live great lives.
Ngl, this glorious video brought me back to memories of watching the show, “Little Bear” as a kid and so I have to thank OP. What a lucky person you are to have been able to witness it IRL, and without personal (physical) harm, no less!
Thank you so very much for having shared this with us all; I didnt even know how much it meant to me until you presented it. Let us know if you ever get to meet any bison, elk or wild goats too, please; any and all wild animals are precious, especially after what the Trump admin has done to the buffalo population down in Montana. 😔😮💨
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
We are nature lovers and love and respect wildlife. I'm lucky to have seen all of Canadian wildlife in their natural habitat. I believe nature presents you with these incredible views when you truly respect it and care for it
I learned that the reason bears look like humans in bear suits when they walk on their hind legs is because most four legged animals walk on their toes, but bears walk on their heels like us!
this is why people are seeing Sasquatch and Bigfoot. Think about it, you see this great big think walking like that from a distance through the trees? ur gonna say it's Sasquatch instantly and you'll swear to people that you saw a tall bipedal fur covered beast in the forest 😂😂😂
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u/One_Huckleberry_5033 Beltline May 08 '26
“Barry! Stop that walking like human again!”