Yup. Ezo brown bear. They've more than doubled here in the past 30 years. It very common to see tracks when we go hiking or backwoods biking, but extremely rare to see an actual bear in my city.They're so shy.
They cause lots of agricultural damage, and we've had record numbers of attacks every year for the past few years. They just revised the law in order to make it easier to cull them. They had been protected to some extent.
Looks like a bear track. There are bears in Hokkaido.
Yup. Ezo brown bear. They've more than doubled here in the past 30 years. It very common to see tracks when we go hiking or backwoods biking, but extremely rare to see an actual bear in my city.They're so shy.
Oh wow, I didn't know they were doing so well now. That's pretty cool. Do they cause trouble?
They cause lots of agricultural damage, and we've had record numbers of attacks every year for the past few years. They just revised the law in order to make it easier to cull them. They had been protected to some extent.
I applaud you for not posting a turd pic.
Was stationed on Okinawa and went to Hokkaido. What a beautiful place.