Calgary hikers share ‘really cool’ video of Kananaskis grizzly bears - BERITAJA

“Very human-like” is really Mujtaba Khawaja describes a family of grizzly bears that he and his friend Rocco Rennie spotted stepping on Highway 742, besides known arsenic the Smith-Dorrien Trail, westbound of Calgary.

The 2 Calgarians were driving connected the road connected May 7 connected their measurement to spell hiking successful Kananaskis Country erstwhile they spotted the family of 4 bears from a region stepping broadside by broadside on the separator of the road.

“We instantly stopped and I started filming the carnivore family and it was a really cool infinitesimal — they walked past our car and went down the car and we were still filming the bears,” said Khawaja. “They were besides very funny about us.”

That’s erstwhile the brushwood took a astonishing turn.

“She (Rennie) was filming and the bears were benignant of for illustration stepping and stopping and looking behind, you know, peeking behind. (Then) 1 carnivore cub stood connected his hind legs and benignant of walked for illustration 10 feet aliases so. So that was really cool and past he went backmost connected each fours,” said Khawaja.

“Very human-like. That took america by surprise, and we were conscionable laughing and we’re conscionable really amazed to spot it.”

“I’ve seen bears before, but, you know, seeing 1 locomotion connected hind legs, that was the first time,” Khawaja added.

The Calgarians yet continued connected their measurement to spell hiking, unaware that, later successful the day, they’d spot the bears again.

“The hike was 5 hours long, and past connected her measurement back, we saw the aforesaid bears again and they were being escorted by rangers,” said Khawaja.

The video of the 2nd brushwood shows the bears trotting past the Calgarians’ conveyance pinch a pickup truck, driven by an Alberta conservation officer, pursuing adjacent behind.

“So yeah, we saw them doubly successful the aforesaid day,” said Khawaja.

When contacted by BERITAJA, the Department of Forestry and Parks sent an email that said conservation officers and Alberta Parks unit “are very familiar” pinch the bears and that they are not considered to beryllium of immoderate concern.

The section said, “the carnivore is commonly spotted successful Peter Lougheed Provincial Park” (in Kananaskis Country) and “it is communal for conservation officers to escort bears on the roadworthy to guarantee some visitant and wildlife safety: this helps alert drivers to wildlife connected the roadworthy and allows unit to show the bear’s activity and guarantee they make it to a safe area.”

While galore group who person viewed the video online person said it appears to beryllium AI-generated, Khawaja said he’s “annoyed” by the suggestion.

“I sewage benignant of defensive, you know, but a batch of people, they saw it arsenic existent footage. Most group judge it to beryllium existent carnivore footage.”