Last Friday (9/18), a huge grizzly bear in Yellowstone Park killed a 6 point elk in the Yellowstone River at the north end of Hayden Valley. The elk had been injured in a prior fight with another bull elk and had injuries that included gore holes on his sides and a broken back leg. The grizzly bear was a 9 year old bear that was born in the Tetons in 2011 and was relocated to the area between Yellowstone's east entrance and Cody (North Fork Shoshone River) in 2014 due to killing cattle south of Grand Teton Park. He received his #791 at that time. In October 2018, he was captured southeast of West Thumb and received a collar, but lost that collar sometime this spring. In October 2019, he killed a 2-3 year old grizzly bear near the east entrance and consumed a large part of the bear.
He is huge and is estimated to be around 600 pounds. Three days before he killed the elk, he stole an entire bison that the Wapiti Lake Wolf Pack had killed a couple miles south and ate the entire bison. Soooooo, he wasn't too hungry when he got the elk back to the east bank of the Yellowstone River. For the next 6 days, he delighted many Yellowstone visitors that were afforded a fantastic viewing area 150 yards across the river. Lots of photographers on site, both amateur and professional.
My grandson Braeden has been working in Gardiner at the north entrance since the beginning of July, so has been able to go into the park most afternoon/evenings after he's done with work. He spent time at the carcass site Fri/Sat/Mon/Wed and again last night. 791 left the carcass Thursday morning and another grizzly bear started coming in.
Billings KTVQ2 did a news spot last night with a phone interview with Braeden along with some of his videos and still pics that I thought you might be interested in.
https://www.ktvq.com/news/montana-news/ ... 3blU_ziMEI
I did a day trip down to Yellowstone on Sunday and got this short video.
https://www.facebook.com/deb.roesler/vi ... 5140713814
Deb