Nature Cam Finds Wild Horses Booking It To Run Away

During the early hours of June 16, two trail cameras fixed to trees in the Canadian Rocky Mountains reveal a massive grizzly bear chasing after a herd of wild horses. The video was uploaded online by the Help Alberta Wildies Society, a non-profit organization that promotes the preservation of wild horses throughout the province.

On the day prior to the pursuit, we first observe a herd of about nine horses, largely mature horses with a few young foals mingled in. We can see the band of horses on camera crossing a brook at roughly 6:00 AM the next day.

Wild horses can live all around the world from Europe to the America’s. ©IvetaPejskova/Shutterstock.com

A large grizzly bear enters the picture a short time later, charging through the water and pursuing the horses. Thanks to there being two cameras filming, you can see the interaction from two unique perspectives.

On their trail cameras, Help Alberta Wildies Society frequently records interactions between wild horses and other species. In another video, a lone wolf is walking along the right portion of the picture as two horses approach.

Do Grizzly Bears Eat Horses?

Grizzly bears can weigh nearly 800 pounds! ©A-Z-Animals.com/N/A

Grizzlies are busy hunting ungulates throughout a large portion of their reduced range, adding the flesh to their extremely open omnivorous diets. But, do they eat horses? As summer develops, grizzlies can cheerfully switch over to thriving plant-based diets, like berries, and maybe anticipate taking out the occasional horse.

Horses aren’t the easiest animal to catch in the wild. Feral horses also don’t experience a lot of predation stress in many regions of their range since important predators from nature like wolves and mountain lions are no longer in the same areas.

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As the video shows, when bears and mustangs do share an environment, they could pose a hazard to young or injured horses. Despite the fact that they rarely hunt horses, bears have the ability to attack them if they suddenly emerge.

It’s believed that the mustangs in this area crossed into bear territory and the apex predator simply didn’t like it. The other possibility is that this is a mama bear that was protecting her cubs.

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Do Grizzly Bears Eat Horses?

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