More than Honey

We are out filming some honey extracting in North Dakota these days, among other things. So I will dwell on the honey issue for a little longer.

In popular perception, bears and honey seem to be closely related – not just in packaging.

One of the reasons might be the early exposure of most of us to the sweet pursuits of this little guy:

But something ist off here. Because real bears, like really real bears, look more like this:

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And when they do approach a beehive for food, which reportedly they do, then they are not after the honey. They are after proteins. As in: larvae and pupae. That is: bee-babies.

And when they are really hungry, they go after all sorts of other babies as well…

Or maybe not. But these are definitely traces of bear claws that we found in an abandoned cabin in Arizona earlier this year. Choose your story.