Bears Just Wanna Have Fun

This short video is Part 2 of the "The Hanging Jug". When I realized that this title may disappoint YouTubers seeking a different genre of entertainment, I gave this sequel a different title. 

If you haven't seen Part 1, you missed out on the different ways various species reacted to the jug, and you don't know that bears won the curiosity contest. That is why I devoted this video just to bears. 

The hanging jug. Part 1

Here's a new video showing how some of our common mammals reacted to an empty plastic detergent jug suspended over a game trail near our house. 

I had a couple of reasons for doing this. One reason was to see if a harmless jug  interested the critters as much as my trail cameras. I really don't think it did, except that the jug was suspended. This imbued it with movement, depending on the breeze and how the animals treated it. Have a look.

Blond Pole Dancer

Blond Pole Dancer

Neighbor Larry built a GoPro camera trap for me, and I finally set it in the woods.

My goal?  Color videos at the water hole at night.

The undertaking has been a challenge.

First, you need sufficient power to charge the power-hungry GoPro Hero2 and external LED arrays. 

Wireless lights would be ideal, but we're not there yet. So, after driving two t-posts into cracks in the bedrock, which happens to be volcanic capstone, I slipped on the pipe extenders, and wired the two arrays at a height of 6+ feet to the camera.

The rig looks like hell, and I knew it would be a standing invitation even to the dumbest bear in the woods.

Of course the inevitable happened.

A blond pole dancer showed up, and her provocative performance disabled the lights.

You've seen her before, if you've visited Camera Trap Codger in the past.

This 2-year female is almost certainly one of the two tiny cubs in the YouTube videos I posted in the spring and summer of 2013.

I think you'll agree, she's a foxy pole dancer.