Originally published at: Yellowstone tourists block grizzly bear's path - Boing Boing
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Why did the grizzly bear cross the road?
Because the chicken wasn’t big enough to teach folks to get some respect for Mother Nature’s mauling potential.
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Jeezus, people! It’s the second effin verse!
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I think the National Park Service should reconsider the message it’s sending with this t-shirt:
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The Forest Service does seem to actively encourage potentially dangerous interactions with bears though.
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As long as they’re wearing their official hats and pants, I think they’re safe. Right?
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In Jellystone, they are good-natured even if they are prone to petty theft.
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I was at Yellowstone 5 years ago, right around mid September in fact. Saw similar behavior with tourists crowding a bear at one of the spots I stopped at (Tower Falls IIRC).
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This reminds me so much of Black Mirror’s “White Bear” , but with a black bear instead.
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Is this from Michelangelo’s famous fresco, “The Final Boop”?
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It’s from the ceiling of the Ursine Chapel.
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That’s what I like to call…Dancing with Darwin, where they identify the bone fragments in bear feces as your remains. 
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Have you seen Smokey’s old enclosure at the national zoo? I’m not sure how it contained anything.
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That’s a black bear, not a grizzly.
Are you sure? How can you tell?
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Yeah, it’s smaller like a black bear, but the coloring seems more like a grizzly? 
It could be a juvenile grizzly?
Here is info on the bears of Yellowstone…
