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[Caroline Fox]:I use remote cameras, so we do a lot of non-invasive research.

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[Caroline Fox]:We collect bear scat, and we use remote cameras that are strapped to trees that face the intertidal.

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[Caroline Fox]:And we're using these cameras to monitor bear activity.

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[Caroline Fox]:And bears are really curious, far more curious and playful than I thought they were.

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[Caroline Fox]:So we have these cameras that are strapped with three bungees and rope around trees.

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[Caroline Fox]:And it doesn't matter if I wipe them with alcohol or hide them, those bears always know the cameras are there.

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[Caroline Fox]:So we're perpetually following bears around, tying our cameras back on trees.

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[Caroline Fox]:But I was lucky enough once to watch a bear place both his canines underneath a bungee cord, a really thick bungee cord that I'd essentially used all my arm strength to get around the tree.

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[Caroline Fox]:Two canines under it, and he backed up along a log.

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[Caroline Fox]:and backed up about six feet and I could see from where I was standing about a hundred feet away his front legs were shaking just from the tension.

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[Caroline Fox]:I guess this is probably the one of the first times that bear had ever encountered elasticity.

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[Caroline Fox]:So that bear couldn't pull it off and had backed up as far as he could go and he just lifted his head and that elastic cord slipped out under his front canines and the elastic and the camera hit the tree

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[Caroline Fox]:it sounded like a shot from a distance and it startled the bear who essentially rolled backwards, fell off the log, rolled all the way down to the bottom of the beach and lay there in a pile of herring eggs looking like completely mystified.

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[Caroline Fox]:Wasn't frightened at all.

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[Caroline Fox]:He just lay there and then looked around and noticed that there was herring eggs at his feet and so he started eating.