How does one know that the bears were disturbed in any way?
Did you even watch the video or did you just go by the screen grabs in the article that was fed to you?
Here's the video so you don't have to go tracking it down:
Surely any logical person can watch it and discern that the sUAS caused stress (
and anger BTW) to the mama bear and most likely (
this is my assumption) added to the frustration of the baby bear trying to ascend the snow pack. Believe it or not this could have been Life or Death for the bear cub.
Don't take my word for it (
I did just Log On BTW ), watch the video for yourself. Be sure to pay attention around the 1:14 portion where the sUAS suddenly moves in much closer (
in what would be considered an aggressive fashion to a wild animal). Pay attention to the mama bear's body language.Look closely when she
obviously looks directly at the approaching sUAS, takes a protective stance, and locks her body in for some degree of protective behavior while swatting to possibly get her cub out of harms way.
Can you honestly say with any truth that the sUAS did not cause that reaction?
Lighten up. It’s just a video
Lighten up? Just a video? SMH you just don't get it.
It's a video of an irresponsible sUAS operator harassing wildlife and it's "only" posted on Social Media and the WWW. Every single one of the REST OF US are going to get judged by that operators horrible actions. You see, some of us take this seriously and some of us put food on the table with our sUAS. So forgive me for not taking this type of action lightly and for not defending this type of horrible behavior. It's not just a hobby and it's a lot more than "just a video" when it's show to the world as evidence against all of us.
This is so much bigger than "just a video" my friend... so very much more.