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Cameras on Canadian Pacific locomotives used to study grizzly bear behaviors
Uh, don’t spill grain out of train cars up in the mountains? If grain cars are spilling grain, that can be fixed. If they are spilling grain, they are also susceptible to mice and other varmints. Anywhere grain can leak out, water can leak in. It ain’t rocket science!
Sounds to me like Ms. Burley has reached her conclusion already, and now is looking for data to support that conclusion. Otherwise, why have a “grain taste aversion trial”?
Has anyone seen the variety of crap the average grizzly bear will eat? They’re not exactly picky eaters. I’m not sure anything short of “Nuclear Hot Wing Sauce” is going to deter them from eating spilled grain.
Lets give CP Rail some credit here in helping to preserve the grizzly bear. Stopping grain cars from spilling the grain is an insurmountable problem for the railways, no matter how they try. Use of the engine mounted camers should give an indication of areas where the problem exists.
Before CP rushes out and spends $ 20 or $ 30 million to fence the tracks through Banff and Yoho national park. The Bears will go where ever the food is followed shortly there after by all the tourists. So set up a large area near the Trans Canada Hyway with 20 foot high fences , Hire a couple of U of Calgary students to feed the bears, charge the Tourists $ 10:00 a car to view the bears .It worked in Northern Ontario.