[pct-l] Extreemly Smart Bears

[Reinhold Metzger]

Reinhold Metzger wrote:
That's right, like Brick said, Sierra bears are extremely smart.....they 
have learned from observing us.
It seems to me that I read somewhere that some are even Harvard graduates.
I have been dealing with Sierra bears for 35 years and have seen them 
figure out how to outsmart steel
bear cables, counter balancing and now certain bear canisters by putting 
their weigh on them to make
the lid pop off.
Counter balancing used to be very effective if done right .....the 
problem was not many hikers were doing it right.
Effective,  until the  bears  got educated.
In all these years I have lost food only once when an extremely smart 
bear applied the law of  leverage by standing
and stumping on the branch, further and further out, until the law of 
leverage accomplished what the bear already
knew he could accomplish by applying the law of leverage....I think that 
one had a degree in structural  engineering
from Harvard.

JMT Reinhold

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