The bears who live at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in Montana “work” as testers to determine which products are truly bear resistant. This trash can probably wouldn’t have passed the test.
There’s no guarantee of a job, but if you weigh around 300 pounds, love the outdoors, and enjoy eating everything from berries to beef, there’s almost certainly a spot for you at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana. As long as you’re a bear.
The sanctuary and educational center employs a team of grizzly bears whose job it is to ensure that anything labeled “bear resistant” can withstand a bear’s best efforts to break it open.
For the bear test, the product is stuffed with some type of candy and exposed to the open air. The bears then have an hour to bite, grab, and “manipulate” the items to get to the treats. If they cannot, the product obtains the certification of the Grizzly Bear Interinstitutional Committee.
Randy Gravatt, the container testing coordinator at the center, says the bears do their jobs like any dedicated employee. “Your job here is to solve problems,” he said. “They’re here to help you with this, a little effort.”
In addition to testing products, the nonprofit facility serves as a conservation and education center for the bears and gray wolves that live in Yellowstone National Park. Get views.
The basic facts about bears:
Although grizzly bear cubs can start eating solid foods at a relatively young age, their mothers can nurse for up to three years.
Canada and Alaska contain approximately 50,000 grizzly bears, while Russia has approximately twice as many.
The largest grizzly bear kept in captivity was Goliath, who lived on a farm in New Jersey from 1967 to 1991; He reportedly reached 12 feet (3.7 m) in height and weighed 2,000 pounds (907 kg).