#grizzlybear#familytravel#seeall50states Today, we make a stop at the Montana Grizzly Encounter as we head towards Yellowstone National park on our RV road trip. This is a rescue facility for grizzly bears and an educational sanctuary. The staff had an incredible amount of knowledge about bears and did a wonderful job teaching us all about the bears, their stories, and bear safety. The Montana Grizzly Encounter is also home to the famous Brutus the Bear grizzly bear. A huge thank you to the man at the front desk as well - the homemade bread was such a treat!
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Hi, we are the Stranathan Family! In 2018 we hit the road full-time to travel in our RV across the US. Our mission was to visit all 50 states and as many National Parks as possible! Along the way we’ve homeschooled our two kids. Traveling the country has been such a gift to us and we want to share the journey with you! Follow along for family friendly adventures, with a little learning and some laughs mixed in.
Welcome to the Montana Grizzly Encounter!
Today we're driving through Montana and we stopped here at the Montana Grizzly Encounter.
This place rescues grizzly bears and gives them a safe home. We are a rescue and education center
for grizzly bears. We have four adult bears in one cub right now. We're home to Brutus the bear.
That's Brutus on the sign right there. Brutus was rescued at two weeks old and this facility
was built around Brutus. So now at 17 Brutus is in a lot of different movies,
National Geographic movies, camping, hiking, safety videos, those type of things. Today Brutus
nearly weighs a thousand pounds. When he stands up, he's literally six inches taller than Shaquille
O'Neal. High five! The bear that we get to meet today is Bella. Oh I can see her ears.
That is Bella and she is huge. She's only five years old. I like how she's like sitting in the
brown bear. She's a grizzly bear. All grizzlies are brown bears. Not all brown bears are grizzlies.
Every day their bears have the choice to come out or not. They don't force their
bears to do anything here. This is just a place for them to come out and play like a backyard.
Each of the bears have a den and when the bears want to go out, they stand by the door and wait
for somebody to open it. When they want to go in, they stand by the door on the other side
and wait for them to open that. Wild bears really don't want anything to do with us as humans.
They have a natural fear of us. They want to stay away from us. What they do want to do is feed
themselves. Bears don't see us as food. They see us as a threat to their food. So our bears will
never be released and rehabilitated as much as we would like to see that happen. Again,
a bear that's been fed by humans will remember that it's been returned to humans. We'll teach
it to come. There's a couple things you should do if you encounter a bear in the wild. One is make
lots of noise. Don't use a bear bell or anything else that doesn't make human noise. Only use your
mouth because that is an instant trigger to the bear that you are a human and I should stay away
from you. If you do see a bear, back away slowly and make yourself as big as possible. As a last
resort, use your bear spray starting from the feet all the way up to the head. Hope you enjoyed
this video. Bye!
Now we're gonna feed the goats. Where are the goats?
