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That post is sarcasm. Wildlife managers want to teach bears that humans are not a food source and should be avoided. Otherwise the bears can get aggressive and

• emiliobumachar 9y ago
  Very good read indeed. Some key quotes: "managers strive to prevent bears from learning to associate people and human spaces with food by providing bear-resistant food storage and garbage receptacles and enforcing their use." "[...] managers may use techniques called aversive conditioning to teach bears that human spaces are unpleasant. This can include noisemakers, shooting them with beanbags, or capturing and releasing them." This is also very good: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/bears http://theoatmeal.com/blog/bears " If they have to enter the pen of a captured animal, such as a bear, they wear a bear-urine-scented bear costume. The point of all this is to disassociate themselves as a source of food or care for the animals. Once released, they want these wild animals to avoid people as much as possible. "