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#NoFilter: Bear takes 400 selfies using trail cam

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A black bear walking along a trail in Boulder, Colorado, recently found a trail camera set up by the city’s Open Space and Mountain Parks agency to monitor wildlife. What resulted, however, was a selfie-fest that would put any Kardashian to shame.

“Of the 580 photos captured,” says the Boulder OSMP Twitter post, “about 400 were bear selfies.” The images that the agency posted alongside the caption are pretty funny, almost as if the bear is “feeling cute” and wanted to share that with its followers.

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Baby bear “re-adjusts” trail camera, takes better wildlife photos than me

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Over the course of 2022, we featured an unusually high number of bear-related stories. So, is there a better way to conclude this year with another story featuring a bear? This one is about bear photography – but it’s the bear who is the photographer. Well, sort of. A chubby bear cub was caught on camera as it was “re-adjusting” it to get a different angle. And the results were pretty darn good, as the camera filmed many wild animals.

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A rare, endangered bird caught on camera for the first time in 140 years

Trail cameras can tell us a lot about animal behavior and habits. They sometimes capture charming and utterly hilarious sights, and recently, there was quite a remarkable one. A trail camera in Papua New Guinea filmed an extremely rare and critically endangered black-naped pheasant-pigeon. The bird isn’t only super-rare, but this is the first time it has been spotted since its discovery – which was in 1882!

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Watch Churchill’s polar bears on a live nature-cam as they wait for the sea ice to form

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Three adolescents saunter along the shoreline, seemingly just killing time. They are playfully wrestling one another as they explore, watched by a quizzical red fox. These are, of course, not teenagers, but polar bears, seen through the lens of the Tundra Buggy Cam.

Polar Bears International (PBI), a conservation non-profit is currently tracking and filming these polar bears in Churchill, Canada while they wait for the sea ice to form on Hudson Bay. When the ice forms, they can go and hunt for seals.

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Photographer captures grizzly enjoying a siesta in front of trail cam

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Now that the temperatures are climbing, it’s pretty usual for Spaniards to have the odd siesta to make it through the hot afternoons. Bears it seems also enjoy their naps. One lucky wildlife photographer managed to capture one bear’s lengthy sleep in the woods on his trail cam.

Nature photographer Robert Martinez spent three years hoping to capture a bear taking a nap before he finally achieved it. He filmed the bear sleeping for a good four hours in Angeles National Forest.

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