Imagine having to live for two years of your life with a weight on the neck, a piece of plastic in which you were stuck and that makes you more and more as you grow. A terrible fate, right?
That’s exactly what touched a Poor black bear of the Michigan That two years ago, when he was still a puppy, he found himself with his head stuck in a plastic lid. It took 24 months of research to find it but now finally the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) of the Michigan made it and freed it from the weight he brought to the neck.
The bear on the run. The first sighting of the bear dates back to 2023: to immortalize it with the lid around the neck (it is not known exactly since it had it) was A phototrappola positioned along a path. The DNR immediately entered into action with the protocol which provides for intervene quickly and immediately to avoid long -term damage to the trapped animal.
The problem is that, lid or not, the bear did not want to know how to be found: in the last two years it has been occasionally identified by other phototrappole, However, disappearing from the area where he had been sighted within a day or two. He wanted a little luck and two years to “catch him”: last May a resident of the County Montmorency reported to DNR that he had sighted the bear near his house.
In perfect health. Within a few days the DNR managed to organize a trap, to capture the bear and to anesthetize it. At that point, the lid removal operations that once removed left a bad scar on the animal’s neck.
Fortunately, it seems to be the only permanent damage reported by the bear that, Apart from the woundshas proven to be in excellent health and with A perfect 50 kg transformationwhat is expected from a two -year -old black bear.
Now the animal has been released and seems to be well. The mystery remains of how he did to fit into that lid, but one thing is certain: The object was not up to standard. It is almost sure that it was the lid of a barrel containing food used as a bait for bears (in Michigan the harsh hunt is legal). Local laws say that these objects must have more close holes than 2.5 cm or larger than 56:
In this way or the hole is too close because a bear enters us or too wide so that it can get stuck.
The lid in question was 12 cm wide, e The two years of torture experienced by the bear are a demonstration of why it is important to respect the law.
