Unbelievable.....

No stopping nature ;)

Always amazing to see an animal cope with things like this!
 
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That is staggering.......hard to be sure from the video but makes me think it is a birth defect rather than injury that may have left(?) some presence or vestiges of amputation :thinking:

The most amazing aspect is that it survived to look so relatively healthy in spite of its impediment.
 
Box Brownie said:
That is staggering.......hard to be sure from the video but makes me think it is a birth defect rather than injury that may have left(?) some presence or vestiges of amputation :thinking:

The most amazing aspect is that it survived to look so relatively healthy in spite of its impediment.
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Birth defect was my first thought too
 
I saw this on TV and it's amazing. It has a philosophical dimension for me,too. When you see what this fox is coping with it can put some of our own 'problems' into perspective . Other peoples' difficulties can do that too, of course but the fox doesn't have the help us people have so next time I experience any difficulties in life I'll definitely think about this fox.
 
Incredible.

Some friends of mine in the USA had a bear that would come visit their back yard and it was always on two legs (it did have four but seemed happier on two). I think I might have video of it somewhere. It became quite well known then some b****r shot it dead.
 
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Incredible.

Some friends of mine in the USA had a bear that would come visit their back yard and it was always on two legs (it did have four but seemed happier on two). I think I might have video of it somewhere. It became quite well known then some b****r shot it dead.
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I watched some footage on a TV channel the other night about a bear that spent a fair bit of time walking around up on its two back legs looking for food around a settlement in the US. My wife's brother and his wife lived in Fruitvale SW Canada..they went shopping in the US city of Spokane so right on the border and they often had bears outside their home and when I asked him what type he said "regular bears'...lol. That will be black bears.

Oh..don't get me started on shooting bears. In Minnesota there is such a clammer to get a licence to kill them in the 'bear shooting season' that the state runs a lottery !!. https://www.facebook.com/3937928890...mnuslicenseslotteriesbearh/10157412557879047/

Do they have a problem with them ? Even if they do then culling by officials should be the only way..not give out licences to those who love to kill..they can't kill people so its wildlife. I had a friend in PA who, every year, went with his young son and others on a deer hunting/camping trip as a 'bonding' experience with him and when he told me about it said after a few years he stooped as there weren't many deer left and sometimes they didn't see any. I wonder why ? I actually said to him " Why do you think that was ,then ?" He said something about habitat loss not appreciating my sarcasm... :)

www.duluthnewstribune.com

Number of bears — and bear hunters — on the rise in Minnesota

Deadline to enter 2022 Minnessota bear hunt lottery is May 6.
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Last year, (2021) 24,698 people applied for a quota-area bear hunting license in Minnesota, up 11% over 22,279 applicants in 2020 and up a whopping 57% since 2009.

“The word is out that Minnesota is a great state for bear hunting," said Andy Tri, who heads the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources bear program.
The recent high numbers for both bears and bear hunters still remain below the historic high levels from the turn of the century when, in 2000, Minnesota had an estimated 18,268 bears and the DNR was trying to bring the population down, with bears expanding into farm field regions and causing trouble across their range. That year, a record 19,304 hunting licenses were sold and hunters bagged 3,898 bears, with nearly 5,000 killed in 2001.

The bear population then crashed due to the high hunter harvest. Minnesota has had a complicated relationship with its black bears, essentially declaring war on them for more than a century with a bounty that wasn’t removed until 1965. They were considered vermin, a nuisance to be shot on sight at garbage dumps and elsewhere, all year long.

There are some people doing a great job,though. I watched a TV documentary about a Dr Lynn Rogers, a bear researcher in Minnesota. Someone shot his favourite , GPS tagged bear. The man eventually contacted Dr Rogers and owned up with an apology. Dr Rogers once took a hunter with him to 'meet' the bear family he'd be-friended..or rather the mom bear and cubs befriended him and the hunter was frightened at first at being so close but soon saw the reality of how different they are to the general perception and thereafter he stopped hunting and went into schools to educate kids about them. https://bear.org/visit-us/about-us/our-founder/

Bit of an off-piste re the original thread subject but hope it's allowed to remain. Be great if you could dig out out your bear video and post it.
 
I've not actually looked at the video, being close to a wild fox myself that visits us most nights and now, 2 or 3 others as well, I think it would be upsetting. I have heard about this fox though and the way it has adapted. It is incredible, from what I've heard about this fox.

My money would be on a birth defect, although, goodness knows.
A friend of mine has a dog, said dog jumped out of the top floor window, (2 storey), trying to jump onto a garden shed outside. It missed the shed completely and landed on a patio. Long story short, he was one lucky dog, all things considered. He broke a couple of bones but completely smashed one of his rear legs, which had to be amputated.

I've meet this dog a few times whilst walking my own and it's not bothered at all, almost keeping up with my own, 3 year old Weimaraner and they're no slouch when they get going.

Nature is amazing.
 
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