Today In Bears

“After eluding Schenectady police and state Department of Environmental Conservation agents for most of the day — with sightings of it in the city as early as 6 a.m. — officers stumbled on the bear around 4:20 p.m. near North College and Front streets. Schenectady Public Safety Commissioner Wayne Bennett explained that rudimentary detective work and the help of a few people gathered on Front Street led to locating the bear. ‘You don’t want to make people laugh, but we said, “Have you seen a bear”’ he explained. The bear was located about 25 feet up in a tree in the backyard of 150 Front St.”
 — The bear was darted twice and fell from the tree, but is okay. There is video. In other bear-related news, “A three-pawed grizzly bear that turned up in Denali National Park and Preserve last summer with a bloody stump for a right, front foot is back, just in time for the start of the tourist season.” The bear, dupped Tripawed (it took me a minute before I stopped thinking “trip-a-wed,” but I expect you’re not as stupid as I am) “doesn’t seem to have any problem getting around on three feet, and the wound appears to have healed completely…”

UPDATE: And here is some video of bear cubs GROOMING EACH OTHER OH MY GOD.

I MEAN. [Via]