Banff’s famous grizzly bear’s close call with moving train caught by local filmmaker
Bears have emerged from their winter dens along Canada's Rockies in Alberta, including two of Banff National Park's most famous grizzlies.
A local filmmaker was able to catch a glimpse of one of them, but he also caught its incredibly close call with a moving train.
As Heather Yourex-West explains, it highlights a long-standing threat to the safety of these majestic animals.
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The definition of so close has changed apparently
@glennbeadshaw727
Ай бұрын
Yep let's see how long your vaccination takes to get to work on you
@VinylToVideo
Ай бұрын
So has the definition of "news!"
seconds to spare? this was like the zamboni scene in Austin Powers.
@schrempskynate8944
Ай бұрын
Or the steam roller scene in "A fish called Wanda".
@glennbeadshaw727
Ай бұрын
You go lay your head down on some tracks looking for some food
@leftenentcrittendon3134
Ай бұрын
Or the marching band in The Naked Gun.
@user-kg2fz4xo2x
Ай бұрын
Man, that was sooooooooo funny. Start writing comedy.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@TempusVulpi
5 күн бұрын
That was a steamroller. You're thinking of Deadpool.
Horn blows... bear leaves... tick... tock... tick... tock... tick... tock... train finally shows up. Whew that was a close call...
Close call??? Click bait.
The bear has more sense than many would give him credit for
@theclimbingchef
Ай бұрын
That bear has been hit like 3 times, he's the boss for a reason
@Kaisersozze
Ай бұрын
How? He's already been hit several times yet continues to hang out by the train tracks.
@theclimbingchef
Ай бұрын
@Kaisersozze well, he's still around so that says something.....and the grain is like sugar.....they get hooked on it
@mikeedwards1768
Ай бұрын
my thoughts also. maybe setting up several grain feed plots further from the tracks will help them forgot the track snack
@matthewwolfe467
Ай бұрын
@theclimbingchef this was split lip not the boss
That was far from a close call...... Tons of time.
Wondering if they would have worried that much about a homeless senior
@milesarcher735
Ай бұрын
Depends...what is the citizenship status of said senior?
@pilbomags488
Ай бұрын
@@milesarcher735 White straight male. NO
@AellaMaud
Ай бұрын
@@milesarcher735 Doesn't matter if the Senior was Canadian "they" wouldn't have cared.
@leftenentcrittendon3134
Ай бұрын
They would care if it was any type or margarineized.
@ElizabethVerhoog
Ай бұрын
This is canada so... probably not!!!
Close call, CLICK BAIT.
That was nothing close about that encounter… just saying
That's not a close call.he had 10 seconds.
@user-xc6wu3ve8u
Ай бұрын
More like 20 secs.
How are people in the news business so stupid? like actually all dumb. "by just seconds" and it was literally like 10 seconds.
@codymoe4986
Ай бұрын
Actually it was figuratively 10 seconds...it was literally 20 seconds...
@codymoe4986
Ай бұрын
Not that you aren't intelligent enough to simply count the seconds on the video playback timer... Bottom left corner...just wiggle your mouse if it isn't there...
💟🐻🐾 Wow! Beautiful filming of this Beautiful Grizzly Bear 🐻 ❤ Such good timing and A smart Grizzly 🐻🐾
Amazing encounter! So glad the bear escaped harm
Spilled grain from trains attracts the bears.
@somcana
Ай бұрын
Why are the grains spilling?
@TenthCrane2788
Ай бұрын
@@somcana Grain can leak from older train cars. The doors don't fit perfectly.
Just literally yesterday I cleaned up half a grocery bag of wheat from the tracks. The birds won't eat it , but the bears do. They luv peas. And if we have to do a speed limit in the parks they should by law reduce the trains speed also. That thing was moving. But the bear was playing chicken. Those tracks vibrate a long ways . He knew.
@lilianmcguigan9240
Ай бұрын
I agree. A reduced speed would give the young bears the extra time to become train aware.
Just west of Banff, at Golden B.C. has to be one of the most depressing murder zones for wildlife in Canada. I once witnessed 3 elk hit by a train, leaving nothing but a gross mess of what was once living creatures. Highway 1 between Golden and Donald is like an butcher shop for deer, elk and bear.
@leftenentcrittendon3134
Ай бұрын
Fresh meat. Thanks for the heads up.
@elliottdiedrich3068
Ай бұрын
Usually I am looking for road kill, but maybe I should start checking the train tracks.
I almost got hit by a car crossing the road. *traffic light goes through 2 cycles before car comes*
That's not close😂.
@simonjohn70
Ай бұрын
lol
"seconds to spare" ?
@schrempskynate8944
Ай бұрын
25 seconds. Soo clooose. 😂
that bear could have walked up town got a timmies and back before that train hit it
@AellaMaud
Ай бұрын
Or a Tourist. It could have had a Tool of a Tourist!
seconds to spare, I am glad I came here go see others laughed like me at the attempt at "drama", I sat waiting for this train and had to laugh so hard....well I guess if there is no news, you make some news :)
Wonder if there are any proposals out there to make tracks safer for wildlife.
@nephilimshammer9567
Ай бұрын
They are as much as can be. They have slow orders and know certain locations but animals do get hit
@dive2drive314
Ай бұрын
We could move the wildlife crossing signs to safer locations maybe? 😂
@somcana
Ай бұрын
I think so. I visited Kenya last year and they have national parks with wild life, so they created raise railway lines with strong pillars rasing the rail above the ground to spare encounters with animals.
@jasonpaints
Ай бұрын
The cost to bear/animal proof the tracks would be insane and pretty much useless. Grizzly bears can climb and can easily dig under fences. It's one thing to design and build bear proof garbage cans, it would be quite another to block migration routes across a 100 km stretch of the Rockies. Far easier and cheaper to build better grain cars
@AellaMaud
Ай бұрын
Let's just stop shipping grain & other delicacies by train the grizzlies/bears like! The Bears/Grizzlies can eat Tourists instead!
The Boss doesn't run from trains, trains run from the Boss.
The bear was home and flossed his teeth before bed by the train rolled by.
I like how you guys speed the video up when the train came. Totally sensationalized what goes on there. He moved out of the way of multiple trains and has done so for years. Also real smart posting the exact location of where they come
If you call 22 seconds a close call. It wasn’t like a split second just before potential impact.
Do people really think the bear wouldn't hear/sense an incoming train from miles away? lol
All the comments saying "that wasn't close", are ignoring the fact they state later that for 20-25 bears a year it was more than close, it was deadly. Would you all have been more pleased if it had been "more "close, or if he got hit?
@codymoe4986
Ай бұрын
They purposely added dramatic language to make the incident seem closer than it actually was. Considering the sheer number of comments mentioning this very thing, I was wondering where your wild assumptions are actually coming from?? Bear heaven?? The video title says, "close call", and the narrator claims "seconds to spare"...when it was closer to a half minute. There's nothing more to it than that...virtue signal elsewhere...
The bear was big, the train was bigger.
Thank goodness.
i wish they will installed a sensor that act as an alarm sound to scare the bear as a train comes close or if they step on the track..... please save the bears!
@theclimbingchef
Ай бұрын
He can feel the reverb thru the tracks.....the alarm won't do anything......the reward for free food is too much for them to resist
@kellyb3211
Ай бұрын
There’s about 50,000 km of track in Canada. Even if we’re super mega generous and say maybe 20,000 km don’t need sensors due to where they are in the country, that still leaves 30,000 km of track that needs sensor. That doesn’t seem economically feasible, especially because the sensors would have to be maintained. That cost would come down to public to pay…
@dive2drive314
Ай бұрын
@@kellyb3211 "That cost would come down to public to pay" Can't be any worse than the millions we send to help fuel foreign wars! Lol
@justsayin5609
Ай бұрын
Humans before stupid bears!
@AellaMaud
Ай бұрын
@@dive2drive314 How about the Tourists & photographers with big ash photo lenses making a business of filming bears pay for it?
Thank you for screaming at the bear .. no doubt it caught his attention... Such a gorgeous area and such a beautiful bear... 💜
Im absolutely baffled why no one has designed "cow-plow" styled Airbags on the front of trains for animals and people
@codymoe4986
Ай бұрын
Because that's going to protect you when 10,000 tons of steel, slams into you at highway speeds??
That bear would have moved without that guy there they are a lot more aware than we are
@Corvacar
Ай бұрын
They are huh. That doesn’t explain why They’re killed every so often. Animals know by instinct what other Animals They have to fear. However, since any machine is not a creature of nature, They don’t fear it. Didn’t l hear that a number of Bears have been killed since the year 2000. Fergieman
@mattstephenson8450
Ай бұрын
Read statistics…bears and many other animals are killed by trains Even humans …get educated
@ytzpilot
Ай бұрын
@@Corvacarnight time is a bigger problem when all they see is the headlights but can’t see the incoming object, deer and moose kills are far more common at night, anyone driving a car in Canada at night will have a deer encounter at some point, lots of times they don’t move, I nearly ran down a herd of moose in northern Ontario slammed my brakes and stopped in time, they weren’t moving had to slowly drive around them.
@derekgray8466
Ай бұрын
@@CorvacarI killed one around 2011 out there. The bear got caught in a place where there were steep cliffs on either side so it couldn't get off the track. That sucked.
While I'm glad for the outcome, even the bear knew he had almost 20 "seconds to spare"...
Wow, I had a close call with 60 cars and a plane today
Global News, Looks like trains are going to become endangered.
They need to make the trains slow down a LOT in those spots that they know the bears frequent, besides the horn blowing.
10 to 12 seconds. Need remote control flash bangs mounted on the lead engine. Like the ones use at airports to scare birds. Just an idea.
Wasn't close at all!
It's a protection for bears from humans poaching just to take a gallbladder for medicine. - Thanks, China🇨🇳 !
The bear felt the train way before you heard it. They don't need your help
Just be glad that when the bear got off the track, he didn't get off your side of the track and head toward you.
You should look up what close mean
Amazing moment 😮😮
Global News, anything for a story... Such a Close Call.. NOT!!! Must be a slow news day/week for Global?!
All those goods that are transported and we depend on for commerce etc. All these posters on here about saving the bear want their lives to be easy.
@codymoe4986
Ай бұрын
As opposed to you wanting your own, to be difficult?? Pretty sure we can have bears, and commerce...if we put in a little extra effort.
That was a horn, not a whistle
So close! Waits 5 minutes...
Time to bring back cowcatchers?
Bear-ly missed him!! lol
The solution is simple stop using trains. Or stop eating grain. Or maybe put a sign up by the tracks "No Grizzlies!"
I almost got hit by a train the other day in Newfoundland. Its a good thing the tracks got taken up in the 90s, because i only had seconds to spare.
Anyone else expecting the train to be going the other direction?
Just glad the bear is safe regardless of how many seconds to spare it still could of been tragic. GOD🙏keep that bear safe until you decide in his old age to meet his maker.
Tje bear had nearly a minute. Where didnu get seconds?
That bear had plenty of time he knew what he was doing it probably isn't his first time either just saying but I'm glad you got off the track he was beautiful ❤️
Why not drop hot pepper powder off the train within Banff! Simple
@megrim8292
Ай бұрын
Yes, get them accustomed to hot cayenne pepper mixed with food, then the bear sprays will be like seasoning to them,...real intelligent. Thank God you're not in charge.
That’s not close for A GRIZzley Bear 🐻
Simple…..reduce train speed through these areas enough they can stop for them or the animal has time to move easily, and as for grain spillage…clean it up frequently and or add some sort of bitter flavour to the spillage until it can be cleaned.
Compliments to the train company! I don’t think anybody down here in the US would do that. Mean they’re also freaking greedy but thank you for changing your cars and thank you for blowing the horns. Somebody up there has compassion that’s Rarity these days! God bless all!
Nobody is from Banff. Nobody.
@karlhans6678
Ай бұрын
lol
That's a huge bear
Blowing the whistle and how about a speed limit through national parks like 50 km.Maybe,maybe not!
THIS …is news?!
"close call" lol who the hell thinks of this lame news
How about fixing the gaps in the train cars so the grain isn't escaping??
I had a dream last night that a crazed albino brown bear was driving around town with an automatic weapon shooting at everyone while her cubs roamed the streets.
The Boss? You need to walk away gently.
It was close, you all saying not. I doubt he has perception of time or speed the train is traveling. Besides he probably has never been slapped by anything yet that he might fear. You know if he didn't feel the ground he wouldn't have moved.
Set up fencing to keep them off the tracks.
Yeah that was close, they can not judge distance and time at all.
That was not close at all tho
15 seconds is not close. 15 seconds might be close for milk toast CBC, but out here in the real world it is not close. That must mean every car in Toronto making a left turn is close to a collision. However, give that train horn operator a donut, and coffee for using the horn.
@venus_envy
Ай бұрын
It's Global, and it was more like 22 seconds, lol.
@unpublishable4091
Ай бұрын
@@venus_envy It was so boring, and long I forgot who made the video.
Of course as grizzly hunting stopped so more bears.
Fricken rail companies
@dandavis6319
Ай бұрын
What do you suggest they do? Just stop moving all of the commodities that make modern society possible?
Maybe slow the trains to a crawl through that area….add an hour to the trip big deal…
No you want a close call look at people vs train
Reporting for clickbait
Let’s try and create drama…….!
Does split lip growl with a lisp? Asking for a friend 😊
@justsayin5609
Ай бұрын
😅
They've fenced the #1 to prevent wildlife from harm. Is there a reason why the tracks can't be fenced?
@venus_envy
Ай бұрын
I was thinking this, too. I wonder if it isn't because it would split the park and reduce the size for animals that don't fly or climb easily. I wonder if overpasses could be made over the tracks, fenced as well, specifically for the animals, along the tracks in certain spots.
Ok bears aren't stupid he'll move out of the way faster than you ever could even if he was dead asleep.
Many many bears have been killed by trains in BNP. The population are unable to recover so to see a bear in that area is a lucky encounter. Don’t come to Banff to see bears cause the train has killed them all !
Ya coming from the same people who would have no trouble havin an abortion.
I don't think that was a beary close call at all. 🤷
Pity think of the man woman and dog that died and the bear spray was empty
To create a feeding spot these cars must leak so much grain they arrive empty. Heaven forbid photographers are ..... dumping grain for those photos. Pretty random spot to set up and take pictures of nothing and coincidentally get this "news worthy" media exposure
@derekgray8466
Ай бұрын
Each loaded car contains around 100 tons of grain, there's a lot to go around.
what a joke
Holy hell 25 bears nailed by trains??? Crazy world
If things get out of control, the animal will be put down to save a curious human. Why are you deliberately risking his life?
I visited Kenya last year and they have national parks with wild life, so they created raise railway lines with strong pillars raising the rail above the ground to spare encounters with animals.
Bears like all animals can hear a train long before a human, this bear was out of the way long before the train arrived.
It was not unlucky
Orca, bear, this is news in Canada. No wonder population is so demoralized.
@donaldduffy8947
Ай бұрын
Netter news then some conservitive crap
@venus_envy
Ай бұрын
@@donaldduffy8947 When do we ever see "conservative crap" on the news? Everything seems to be against conserving what was Canada. However, I agree I'm all for the occasional news about our wildlife and the nature around us, it is a big part of what makes Canada, Canada. At least we still have some of that left, eh?
@jonovision1759
Ай бұрын
There is no conservative news only left wing brainwashing made public in Canada
The rail companies could do a better job of keeping their rail car bottom hatches from leaking grain out along the tracks. That’s what attracts the wildlife for the most part. Maybe the idea is that if our narcissistic leader and his half-witted helpers can completely break our country that people will go out there and scavenge the kernels of grain and that’ll keep the bears from getting hit.
CN and CP rail can do better , but it’s not in their budget…Please guys , do more to save and protect these majestic animals
It’s not cp it’s CPKC for a news report you’d think they’d catch that
Why is everyone saying that wasn't close? That was literal seconds. What do you want a close call to be, the train nipping the bears butt?
I have no sympathy for Grizzlies after what happened to Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend. They are not wonderful, peaceful animals, but brutal predators.