{"id":435961,"date":"2010-03-16T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2010-03-16T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:26:11","slug":"charmed-by-black-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/435961","title":{"rendered":"Charmed by black bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/expeditions\/minnesota\/stories\/blackbear\" >BBC:<\/a> When programme maker Ted Oakes went to the Northwoods of Minnesota to  film black bears, he had no idea that he would have such an intimate  encounter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/expeditions\/minnesota\/stories\/blackbear\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/open.live.bbc.co.uk\/dynamic_images\/naturelibrary_146\/downloads.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/naturelibrary\/assets\/a\/am\/american_black_bear\/american_black_bear_1.jpg\" width=\"131\" align=\"left\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a>Ted filmed the bears with the help of biologist Dr Lynn Rogers. As black  bears spend most of their time deep in the forests, researchers have  only been able to study them by radio tracking their movements. Lynn did  this for 25 years before he decided to take a different approach. He  learned how to gain the bears&#8217; trust so that they allowed him to follow  them. The bears have come to ignore Lynn&#8217;s presence and he has been able  to study their natural behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers working with Lynn follow a strict protocol when  following the study bears in Minnesota. They can feed a bear a small  amount of natural food when they meet it. They have to greet the bear  and it has to know who they are. The bear will then often accept their  presence for most of the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/expeditions\/minnesota\/stories\/blackbear\" >Read more&gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3206&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3206\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: When programme maker Ted Oakes went to the Northwoods of Minnesota to film black bears, he had no idea that he would have such an intimate encounter. Ted filmed the bears with the help of biologist Dr Lynn Rogers. As black bears spend most of their time deep in the forests, researchers have only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}