Brown Bear cub goes punk.

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Check out this bear cub with a fishing lure up its nostril!  Must have hurt, glad he got fixed.  I can't copy the photos here but follow the link.


Tackle box just too alluring for Chilkoot cubCHILKOOT: Yearling hooked by his curiosity.
By TOM MORPHETChilkat Valley News via The Associated Press
Published: August 29th, 2011 08:53 PMLast Modified: August 29th, 2011 09:58 PM
HAINES -- It took Fish and Game biologists about five minutes to remove the treble hook of a Pixie lure from the nostril of a brown bear yearling Saturday. ............Fishing lures stuck on brown bears aren't uncommon along the Chilkoot, where each fall about 18 bears share the river with anglers and bear-watchers. The sow with the cub had a Pixie on its hindquarters last week, the biologist said.
Lures typically fall out of bear hides, but close-up photos of the cub gave reason for concern, Crupi said. "All three barbs were in the nostril and (the points) had poked through the outside of the nose. It would have clearly not come out on its own. And it was starting to get infected."   .......Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/08/29/2038386/wildlife-bioligists-able-to-remove.html#ixzz1WVaTILmA