Wildlife Adventures
Sep. 30th, 2007 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Alaskan wolf fishes for salmon as efficiently as local bears:
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/bears/story/9343962p-9258417c.html
Be sure to click on the photo at the top right for a series of photos.
And thanks tostrandsofchaos for this:
A bear was walking across Rainbow Bridge (Old Hwy 40 at Donner Summit, Truckee) on Saturday when two cars also crossing the bridge scared the bear into jumping over the edge of the bridge. Somehow the bear caught the ledge and was able to pull itself to safety. Authorities decided that nothing could be done to help Saturday night so they returned Sunday morning to find the bear sound asleep on the ledge. After securing a net under the bridge the bear was tranquilized, fell into the net, lowered, then woke up and walked out of the net.
I keep wondering if that last photo was taken as at close a range as it appears!
pathfinder for this one:Alaskan wolf fishes for salmon as efficiently as local bears:
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/bears/story/9343962p-9258417c.html
Be sure to click on the photo at the top right for a series of photos.
And thanks to
strandsofchaos for this:A bear was walking across Rainbow Bridge (Old Hwy 40 at Donner Summit, Truckee) on Saturday when two cars also crossing the bridge scared the bear into jumping over the edge of the bridge. Somehow the bear caught the ledge and was able to pull itself to safety. Authorities decided that nothing could be done to help Saturday night so they returned Sunday morning to find the bear sound asleep on the ledge. After securing a net under the bridge the bear was tranquilized, fell into the net, lowered, then woke up and walked out of the net.
I keep wondering if that last photo was taken as at close a range as it appears!
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Date: 2007-09-30 11:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-30 11:39 pm (UTC)As a former employee of a pro camera store, I can confidently tell you NO. It was most likely taken from a decent distance, in fact.
There are telephoto lenses as long as your arm, with a diameter at the business end approximately that of a paper plate, which take stunning closeups like this from an entirely safe distance. (Say, half a mile away.) They're much used in wildlife and sports photography. Even if the photog didn't have one of those, a fairly ordinary telephoto could have enabled that shot from the safety of the road.
Glad the poor bear was rescued!