What a story! Minivan owners with children planning a trip to Yosemite be forewarned! The Black Bears of Yosemite National Park actually recognize and look for minivans according to a scientific study!!
The story is relatively the same one written by Mark Grossi (McClatchy Newspapers) – but you can tell the news folks are having fun with this one! Here are some sample headlines (along with their stories and photos)!
Yosemite Bears Prefer Minivans for Snack Attacks
The minivan: lunchbox on wheels for Yosemite bears
Yosemite bears love their minivan buffets
Yosemite bears love their minivans
Yosemite’s bears prefer to break into minivans
Mmmm, minivan! The favorite vehicle of Yosemite’s black bears
Minivans buffets for bears in Yosemite area
Yosemite bears break into minivans most, study shows
Yosemite Black Bears Preferred Vehicle? Minivans.
Yosemite bears’ car of choice: the minivan
It’s Official: Picky Yosemite National Park Bears Prefer Their Meals in Minivans
Minivans are as good as honey pots to Yosemite bears, study says
Black Bears Looking for Fast Food Choose Minivans
Your minivan is one big pic-a-nic basket, say Yosemite’s black bears
Here is the actual study: SELECTIVE FORAGING FOR ANTHROPOGENIC RESOURCES BY BLACK BEARS: MINIVANS IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK
STEWART W. BRECK (stewart.w.breck@aphis.usda.gov), NATHAN LANCE, AND VICTORIA SEHER
United States Department of Agriculture–Wildlife Service–National Wildlife Research Center, 4101 LaPorte Avenue, Fort
Collins, CO 80521, USA (SWB, NL)
Yosemite National Park, P.O. Box 577, Yosemite, CA 95389, USA (VS)
in the Journal of Mammalogy, 90(5):1041–1044, 2009
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