According to Shaoyang daily, recently, Hunan Nanshan National Park photographed a precious video of black bears foraging honey, a national secondary key wild animal under protection, for the first time. In the video, a strong male black bear leisurely walks out of the bamboo forest and sniffs a beehive placed by the rock. After confirming that there is no honey in the beehive or honey is scarce, the black bear staggers into the depths of the bamboo forest. It is very cute.
Xiao Huigui, senior forestry engineer of jintongshan Nature Reserve Management Office of Nanshan National Park Administration, told reporters that this image was found by the staff of jintongshan nature reserve management office when sorting out the image data taken by infrared camera on August 24. At about 6 p.m. on July 29, the image of a black bear weighing about 150 kg swaggering for honey appeared in front of the infrared camera lens in the Mingzhu Laoshan area.
This is the first time in 20 years that Shaoyang City has taken a video of the precious wild animals under national protection. “The black bear is fat, shiny and healthy.”
According to Xiao Huigui, as early as 1997, a girl from jintongshan village, Tingping Township found a pair of black bear cubs while pulling pig grass up the mountain. Later, the local forestry police station sent them to the provincial botanical garden for breeding, and now they have successfully bred their offspring. In recent years, according to the local residents of Jintong Mountain Nature Reserve, the beehives they placed in Mingzhu Laoshan area are often destroyed by unidentified animals, and the beehives inside are also swept away. “Local residents suspect that the black bear did it.” According to the clues reflected by residents, the staff of the reserve conducted in-depth field investigations for many times and found footprints, feces, claw marks, etc. left by suspected black bears. However, because the black bear has a sensitive sense of smell and hearing and a wide range of activities, no living image of the black bear has been taken.
The staff of the management office consulted the relevant materials of the black bear, described the “trouble making” situation of the black bear in combination with visiting local residents, carried out all-round control, constantly adjusted the monitoring scheme, and finally took the high-definition image of the black bear four months later.
At the bottom of the video, some netizens worried that “it seems that we should pay attention to safety when going to Nanshan in the future”.
How to prevent accidents in which black bears hurt people? In this regard, Xiao Huigui said that the black bear has poor eyesight, sensitive sense of smell and hearing and strong alertness. It is generally difficult for the surrounding residents to see it. Even if they encounter it occasionally, they will walk away soon. “This is a male bear. According to local bee farmers, the female bear has also appeared with a group of cubs, but it hasn’t been photographed yet. We’re working hard.”