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Subscribe to RSSA mother bear and two cubs draw a crowd at Montana hotel where they were tranquilized before falling out of a tree. KECI's Kevin Maki reports.
Montana wildlife officials on Thursday had to sedate a black bear and her two cubs after they had climbed up a tree on the grounds of a hotel in Missoula. The bears fell into a net, and the hotel even provided pillows to help break their fall.
The bears will be released into the wild, NBCMontana.com reported.
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Montana did this the right way. The bears were sedated and their falls safely caught in a net. The bears will then be released in the wild. None of this "wild bears, they are dangerous, we need to get rid of them" garbage you often hear. People are safe, the bears unharmed, and all is well. Thanks Montana.
What net? It seems to me that the pillows are what broke the fall. A lot of slack in that net. :-)
I hope they don't find their way back to someone's yard. Maybe the next time they won't be just sedated. Poor bears.
They definately did this ethically and humanely. Way to go Montana!