To protect the safety of the animal and the drivers, the rural agents they were forced to act according to what the protocol indicates. The call was made”acoustic deterrent“, by shouting and loud voices but also with firecrackers and double detonation cartridges, which burst near the animal. In addition, they shot rubber bullets on the rear of the animal, to reinforce the aversive character of the operation.
You try that bear be afraid so that you realize that the humans and the road they are not one good company. Thus he learns that he must live as far away from them as he can. It seemed that the device had been successful, because during the following days the plantigrade was not observed.
However, things have changed last week. The bear was sighted again while, very close to the road, devoured a specimen of fallow deerpossibly run over. Mark Alonsoa member of DEPANA who has been studying these animals for decades, suspects that someone placed the animal there: “The bear had not returned, but of course, if someone moves the corpse and places it a few meters from the road, they can smell it like many meters away. it is understood that he has reappeared.”
🚨S’ha vist l’ós que ronda pel Pallars per 4t cop en dos mesos🐻
Specifically, at l’Hostal de l’Andreuet, a lot of prodence the ones that went to St. Joan‼️
⚠️ He was dinant an animal of quatre potes at the matt coast of the road. pic.twitter.com/lAQIkuzBWu
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Faced with this situation, the operational was reactivated. This afternoon the rurales have located the bear, have closed the road and have returned to shoot rubber bullets to try to drive him away. The objective is the same: to scare him and stop walking around nearby areas to the road as if nothing had happened, something that is dangerous for your safety and that of the drivers.
“The goal of the protocol is for this bear to realize that humans are not good company”
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It was not only a problem for road and animal safety: “For a bear to lose its fear of humans can cause it to approach houses later on to look for food in the garbage or in the fruit trees of the gardens to feed themselves”. And this must be avoided.
If these actions are unsuccessful and the bear is still close to the road, the actions will be repeated a second and a third time. If even so the mammal continues without being frightened enough and remains close to the road, he would be captured to mark it with a gps necklace. It is a scenario that is not ruled out, but that right now is not on the table. Both the rural people and the technicians of the Generalitat trust that this wayward bear stay in the mountains and don’t loiter on the road again.