The Last Bass Outpost

We Limeys don't even like trees. Scotland was stripped of trees to make room for sheep farming and big hunting estates. The UK as a whole has much less tree cover than equivalent EU countries. We have virtually no natural habitat of any want beyond some fragmented alpine habitat in the tops of the Cairngorms. The rest of the country has been exploited or ruined in one way or another.

Ilan, but mama bear already did in the vid! And no, she did not take a dump in the pool water, brown bears aren’t hippos! 

Alan, you Limeys are pretty much terrible at preserving wildlife, no bears, wolves, golden jackals or lynx on your barren island - and that was even before BREXIT! Instead invasive pests like North American squirrels of hideous size.



At least you managed to bring back the white-tailed eagle.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/18/white-tailed-eagle-chick-born-in-england-for-first-time-in-243-years



In fairness, your voting habits have somewhat improved lately!

I’ve been told that as long as grizzleys have an escape route they will generally leave you alone , but many of the black bears had become garbage hounds and were unpredictable.
Also met a native woman who was a guide. A bear had attacked two German tourists one was badly mangled , she beat the bear off with a folding shovel , and carried him back to be looked after. She was about five foot two.
Bear paws are frightening looking things , one swipe would easily rip your face off.

That is such a fun idea, congrats!

She doesn't seem to be aggressive, just inquisitive, but with two cubs to protect that can of course change quickly. But as long as the human inhabitants stay on their side of the window, all seems to be well, give or take periodic re-purchases of pool floats obviously not designed to withstand brown bear claws and teeth.

I've seen black bears this oblivious to human civilization, but not brown bears (I've learned that a Grizzly is a brown bear sub-species, but Californian Grizzlies as another sub-species are extinct, so she and her cubs are brown bears, not Grizzlies).

If this happened in Germany in the few regions where we still have brown bears a state of national emergency would have already been called.  West Coast relaxation about things can be admirable sometimes.