Yogi visits the Cape!

[Timothy]

We've a resident black bear that's checking out the local vacation areas on Cape Cod!  He's made it to the homosexual capital of New England...apparently Key West or San Fransisco were too far away!

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. - The biggest sensation on Cape Cod right now isn't the lobster, the lighthouses or the sand dunes. It's not even a Kennedy.

It's a bear.

A bruin believed to have swum about 500 feet (152 metres) across the Cape Cod Canal from the mainland in late May has captured the imagination of residents as it traipses across the peninsula. Officials say research dating to the 1700s suggests this is the first bear on the Cape.

Boston-area newscasts are featuring daily updates on the bear's whereabouts, and a Cape Cod Bear Twitter feed has nearly 1,300 followers.

"Well, my goodness. How often do you see a bear on Cape Cod?" said Marion Larson, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. "It's really cool, and people are really excited about it."

A Cape Cod Times reporter told the paper she spotted the bear around 6 a.m. Thursday and said it bounded across the road like a puppy.

The bear, likely a male about 3 years old, has been seen near a chicken coop, a cranberry bog, a golf course and more than a dozen other locations along a 60-mile (96-kilometre) stretch of the Cape.

Now that the bear has reached the tip of the Cape, wildlife officials say they may attempt to immobilize and move it to an area where other bears live. Bears don't generally turn around and go back where they came from, and he can't go any farther east.

"He's at the end of the line, as far as real estate," Larson said.

[kmitch200]

Sounds like the bear was a much stronger swimmer than Teddy.
'Course I'm giving the bear the benefit of the doubt he wasn't drunk.

[Solus]

He is old enough that he is gonna get lonely maybe?

Hope he swims back and doesn't take out his frustration on the locals.....he's liable to wake up on the mainland with a  hang over and the last thing he remembers is some two-legs with funny looking sticks.

[tombogan03884]

He is old enough that he is gonna get lonely maybe?

Hope he swims back and doesn't take out his frustration on the locals.....he's liable to wake up on the mainland with a  hang over and the last thing he remembers is some two-legs with funny looking sticks.

I hope he does "take out his frustration on the locals." those are the people that give the North East a bad reputation.
Most would not be missed.

[Majer]

More than likely it will leave a bad taste in the bears mouth...

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[jaybet]

I thought you were talking about the REAL Yogi Bear visiting Cape May.
Reminds me of a joke that I can't even post here with symbols (#%&*).

[Timothy]

This bear is one travelin' Jones!

A few weeks ago, they captured Yogi and transported him about 100 miles west of Boston and released him somewhere in the Berkshires in western Mass.  Yesterday, he showed up in a Brookline neighborhood which is a suburb of Boston!

The captured him again and took him back to the Berkshires.  More than likely, he'll be back according to the experts.  We have an estimated 4000 bears in the state and only about 240-250 are harvested annually by hunters.

BROOKLINE (AP) - A black bear that showed up in suburban Boston is the same one that swam to Cape Cod on Memorial Day weekend, authorities say.

For the second time this month, wildlife officials used a tranquilizer dart on Tuesday to immobilize the bear so they could capture it. It happened after the bear climbed a tree in Brookline, drawing a crowd of onlookers and police officers.

On June 12, authorities relocated the 180-pound male bear to central Massachusetts after it wandered for two weeks on the Cape.

Wildlife officials said then that the bear's breeding instinct may have sparked its travels, with that trip marking the first time authorities believe a black bear visited the Cape.

Now authorities say they're relocating the bear to a remote location in western Massachusetts.

The bear was spotted Tuesday morning in a tree in Brookline's upscale Chestnut Hill neighborhood. An environmental police officer perched in a cherry picker and fired the dart at the bear, said Reginald Zimmerman, a spokesman for the state office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.

The startled bear initially climbed farther up the tree before tumbling about 80 feet to the ground.

Brookline police Chief Daniel O'Leary told reporters at the scene that the bear wasn't believed to be the one spotted in several other Boston suburbs recently. He said it was wearing tags indicating that it had been previously tracked.

Officials couldn't immediately remember another bear sighting in Brookline, but Zimmerman said the presence of the bear so close to Boston shouldn't be a major surprise.

"Bears have been in suburban areas and among people for many years," he said. "They are highly adaptable."

Read more: http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/18881067/2012/06/26/black-bear-sighting-in-brookline#ixzz1yzvUr72M

[tombogan03884]

Maybe he's hooked on  the tranquilizers . 

[Timothy]

Might be worth getting my bear tag this year ($5.00)!  With the exception of 'yotes, it's the only thing you can hunt with a rifle or a handgun.  Don't think my .38 is enuf gun though!  Might could borrow the AR10 from the kids..

[MikeBjerum]

Never fear boys and girls - Mikey is here!