Green Turtle Pond Bear attacking Deer footage!!!

[ScowardNJ]

I saw this last week on a Facebook page. It's not really a fishing report but some pretty amazing footage from one the local North Jersey Fishing Holes. The link is to the persons YouTube Channel. From there she posted 3 videos shot from her kayak of a NJ Black Bear drowning a deer for lunch along the bank of Green Turtle Pond.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvOhuV24tq-_k1GU8NdeVnQ

[FASTEDDIE29]

America the beautiful! Mother Nature at it's best. Saw part one last week. Simply AWESOME!

[briansnat]

Thats why we need a bear hunt. How many more Bambis need to die in the fangs of these merciless killers?

[Andrushkin33]

Bear should be banned from the habitat.

Evidence is clear that doe was lured away from protective area with a promise of a nice cold drink only to suffer in the hands of the vicious and cunning predator.

I call on to boycott Smokey the Bear until he takes a share of accountability for the actions of his extended family.

Andre.

[buzzbaiter]

Unusual to take down a healthy deer. Thats disconcerting. If it will hunt down a 125-150 lb deer whats to stop it from hunting down a person like what happened to Darsh Patel? Bears are suppose to be scavengers/foragers not hunters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTcbD2wRu1c

[Jigman13]

Always be prepared for the...

[yumasdad]

I live up in WM & bear are a part of our lives. You have to be smarter than the average bear or else they will get your garbage, bird feeder, pets & you or anything else they want.

Had a pair of cubs destroy a section of my wooden fence just to get to a barrel of recycled plastic bottles. Came home to a broken fence & chewed up plastic all over my property. Looked like they had a fun day but I do not blame them, I blame myself for letting it happen.

That video explains why in the past 11 years I have only seen a handful of deer in the area but bears daily. The numbers have dropped considerably this year & I question whether we really need a hunt again.

The bad actors are the ones who live in the green areas around homes thus are not subject to hunting. The good bears are the ones who fend for themselves & do not look for handouts...seems to me like we just need to clean up the bad actors not the self sufficient bears as in the video. The bad characteristics gene pools are getting stronger as a result.

The video is tough to watch, nature is brutal.

[acabtp]

From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun
There's more to see than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round

It's the Circle of Life!

http://www.tombeauchamp.com/misc/fishing/circle-of-bear.jpg

[yumasdad]

Unusual to take down a healthy deer. Thats disconcerting. If it will hunt down a 125-150 lb deer whats to stop it from hunting down a person like what happened to Darsh Patel? Bears are suppose to be scavengers/foragers not hunters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTcbD2wRu1c
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I know this is in poor taste but I learned two things from that tragic occurrence @ APAWASHA.

a) You do not need to out run the bear, just the slowest of your herd.

b) Bears like INDIAN FOOD.

....I KNOW, that was in poor taste but comedy is not pretty.

[Chrisper4694]

am i the only one that can't see anything really happening in this video?

[yumasdad]

A brief summation of video:

Bambi goes to pond for a cool drink of water.
Yogi spies a picnic basket (IE: BAMBI)
Yogi traps Bambi @ waters edge & puts the clamps on Bambi then proceeds to down poor Bambi.
A brief unnecessary zoom of the kayaker's leg & then it is back to live action.
Bambi thrashes in water, kicks legs in vain & mews when it can get its head above water....a few final leg kicks then Yogi drags dinner out of lake.

The sound of the poor deer suffering & fighting for it's life will haunt me for days.

I cannot even fish with live bait any longer let alone take a few smallmouths home for dinner... guess I would make a lousy bear.

[bunker dunker]

its been going on since the beginning of time.deer eat grass bears eat deer.
who says the bear numbers are down???? don't blame the bear my arse,he breaks my fence he can tell st peter I gave him the ticket.

[bling306]

This also just happened in West Milford...
"According to West Milford Police Chief Timothy Storbeck, dispatch received a call at around 10 a.m. today from a homeowner reporting a loud noise coming from the downstairs family room. The chief said that noise was caused by an approximately 200-pound black bear that apparently gained access to the home - and a bag of cat food there within - via a lower level window.

The bear fled through the same window, presumably when officers arrived on the scene, Storbeck said. The bear was subsequently euthanized by the responding officer, he said. "

The comments section is gold haha

http://www.northjersey.com/news/crime-and-courts/police-blotters/black-bear-breaks-into-west-milford-home-killed-by-police-1.1383677

[buzzbaiter]

Another unarmed black being killed by police :p

paul czajkowski · fair lawn, new jersey
the only reason the cops shot him was cause he was a black bear. If it was a polar bear they wouldn't have shot him.

[briansnat]

This also just happened in West Milford...
"According to West Milford Police Chief Timothy Storbeck, dispatch received a call at around 10 a.m. today from a homeowner reporting a loud noise coming from the downstairs family room. The chief said that noise was caused by an approximately 200-pound black bear that apparently gained access to the home - and a bag of cat food there within - via a lower level window.

The bear fled through the same window, presumably when officers arrived on the scene, Storbeck said. The bear was subsequently euthanized by the responding officer, he said. "

The comments section is gold haha

http://www.northjersey.com/news/crime-and-courts/police-blotters/black-bear-breaks-into-west-milford-home-killed-by-police-1.1383677

I'm in West Milford about a mile from where that happened. That morning I heard a bear outside my BR window. The snorts and snuffling sounds were unmistakable. By the time I got out of bed and went to the window it was gone, but a look out the front door showed nearly every garbage can in view on its side, with the garbage strewn around the street. It was definitely a bear I heard. A few hours later that bear was shot not far away. I wondered if it was the same one.

The comments section in that article is frighting. Most of those posters don't realize that once a bear learns that the inside of a home means food, no home is safe. And I have to laugh at "the bears were here first" argument. They were virtually extinct in NJ for much of the 20th century, while these homes were being built. And bear were also there first in NYC, Newark, Paterson, etc. I bet "the bear were here first" crowd might be singing a different tune if bear were wandering the streets of NY, Newark, etc. killing pets and breaking into homes.

Over the past dozen years they have been seen wandering Wayne, Totowa, West Orange and Little Falls. Hardly bear country. There are simply too may bear for the available habitat. Fortunately or unfortunately, many wild animals have adapted to living in close quarters to humans. I grew up in Passaic in the 60's and 70's and never even saw a freakin' rabbit. Now there are deer living there. I was shocked to see one run past my parent's house about 10 years ago.

[yumasdad]

I'm in West Milford about a mile from where that happened. That morning I heard a bear outside my BR window. The snorts and snuffling sounds were unmistakable. By the time I got out of bed and went to the window it was gone, but a look out the front door showed nearly every garbage can in view on its side, with the garbage strewn around the street. It was definitely a bear I heard. A few hours later that bear was shot not far away. I wondered if it was the same one.

The comments section in that article is frighting. Most of those posters don't realize that once a bear learns that the inside of a home means food, no home is safe. And I have to laugh at "the bears were here first" argument. They were virtually extinct in NJ for much of the 20th century, while these homes were being built. And bear were also there first in NYC, Newark, Paterson, etc. I bet "the bear were here first" crowd might be singing a different tune if bear were wandering the streets of NY, Newark, etc. killing pets and breaking into homes.

Over the past dozen years they have been seen wandering Wayne, Totowa, West Orange and Little Falls. Hardly bear country. There are simply too may bear for the available habitat. Fortunately or unfortunately, many wild animals have adapted to living in close quarters to humans. I grew up in Passaic in the 60's and 70's and never even saw a freakin' rabbit. Now there are deer living there. I was shocked to see one run past my parent's house about 10 years ago.

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The deer have learned that they are safe in the burbs so they are proliferating there & their predators have followed them as well.
I grew up in WAYNE & we rarely ever saw a deer growing up-when did it was a big treat. The town is filthy with them now along with coyotes as well as bear.

The larger males displace the smaller males if they cannot catch & eat them so that is why we are seeing more bear in the burbs-especially as the summer draws to a close & the breeding season is starting.

Any bear that performs a B&E into a home is shot on the spot. It is up to us to be smarter than the bear to prevent unfortunate consequences by keeping garbage secured & in bear safe cans, windows closed along with doors etc. They are the apex predator & need to be respected & managed not hunted back into extinction so people can have some crappy chewy stew meat & rug

[tautog]

If I only we had the same policy for human burglars...

[yumasdad]

If I only we had the same policy for human burglars...

They do in TEXAS! Black bear, brown bear, white bear it doesn't matter.:D

[bling306]

I'm in West Milford about a mile from where that happened. That morning I heard a bear outside my BR window. The snorts and snuffling sounds were unmistakable. By the time I got out of bed and went to the window it was gone, but a look out the front door showed nearly every garbage can in view on its side, with the garbage strewn around the street. It was definitely a bear I heard. A few hours later that bear was shot not far away. I wondered if it was the same one.

The comments section in that article is frighting. Most of those posters don't realize that once a bear learns that the inside of a home means food, no home is safe. And I have to laugh at "the bears were here first" argument. They were virtually extinct in NJ for much of the 20th century, while these homes were being built. And bear were also there first in NYC, Newark, Paterson, etc. I bet "the bear were here first" crowd might be singing a different tune if bear were wandering the streets of NY, Newark, etc. killing pets and breaking into homes.

Over the past dozen years they have been seen wandering Wayne, Totowa, West Orange and Little Falls. Hardly bear country. There are simply too may bear for the available habitat. Fortunately or unfortunately, many wild animals have adapted to living in close quarters to humans. I grew up in Passaic in the 60's and 70's and never even saw a freakin' rabbit. Now there are deer living there. I was shocked to see one run past my parent's house about 10 years ago.


I'm in WM now too. I moved up here about a year ago. So far I have only seen one bear but according to my neighbor they are in our area quite frequently during the day. I couldnt agree more with your post.