Cougar V Bear. An astonishing short film

[LONDONER]

http://www.flixxy.com/bear-animal-nature-film.htm

[Ekwarph]

I'm frustrated, I thought it was a porn movie

[Ekwarph]

Joking apart, it's sad to think that that will never happen again.

[LONDONER]

I'm frustrated, I thought it was a porn movie

What will never happen again and why is it sad?

[LONDONER]

I was convinced it was all CGI but wanted to be proven wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_(1988_film) it was the noise of the baby bear that made me wonder and how many cameras were used....

"While animatronic bears were used for several of the fighting scenes, live animals—including bears, dogs, horses, and honey bees—were used on location for filming.[12] A trained, 9-foot tall Kodiak bear named Bart played the adult grizzly, while a young female bear named Douce ("Sweet" in English) took on the role of the cub, with several alternates. Three trainers worked with Bart (including his owner Doug Seus), eleven with the cubs, three with the dogs, and three with the horses.[12] One day during production, Bart injured Annaud while the two posed for photographers; Annaud's wounds, which included claw-marks on his backside, had to be drained with a shunt for two months.[13] In addition to the real bears, there were animatronic bears which were used in specific scenes that were made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop."

The result is incredibly convincing though don't you think?

[LONDONER]

Amazing thanks for sharing, but it doesn't compare to the BBC penguin spy in the huddle series http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01460rf did you see it ?

Yes, I did see it and it was marvellous as are so many of the BBC's natural history programmes, but that doesn't detract from the Cougar and the Bear. I still think is is astonishingly well done.

[Geminize]

The level of animal training is astonishing, and the photography is beautiful. The rest is so unnatural that it was disturbing to me. The sounds of the bear cub are so human that I laughed out loud. It would be very strange for a cougar to attack a healthy bear. They like better odds. I love nature programs, but not ones that are this contrived. They give a false impression of the animals.

[Ekwarph]

What will never happen again and why is it sad?

Cause if I say right cougars dont exist anymore!

[LONDONER]

Cause if I say right cougars dont exist anymore!

I don't think they're extinc yet

The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as the mountain lion, puma, panther, mountain cat, or catamount, is a large cat of the family Felidae native to the Americas. Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America, is the greatest of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in most American habitat types. It is the second heaviest cat in the Western Hemisphere, after the jaguar. Solitary by nature and nocturnal, the cougar is most closely related to smaller felines and is nearer genetically to the domestic cat than true lions.

Excessive hunting following European colonization of the Americas and the ongoing human development of cougar habitat has caused populations to drop in most parts of its historical range. In particular, the cougar was extirpated in eastern North America in the beginning of the 20th century, except for an isolated subpopulation in Florida. However, in recent decades, breeding populations have moved east into the far western parts of the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Transient males have been verified in Minnesota, Wisconsin,[8] Iowa, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and Illinois, where a cougar was shot in the city limits of Chicago and, in at least one instance, observed as far east as Connecticut

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[Pix]

I know of cougar sightings in East Texas, too.

And I've heard an animal noise there that I was told was made by cougars, though I don't really know (many of those same people said I worshiped Satan so I do take what they say with a grain of salt :tongue: ).