A curious bear has turn out to be the shock star of wildlife cameras arrange in Boulder, Colorado, taking tons of of “selfies” in an obvious impromptu photoshoot, native officers mentioned.
The town’s Open Area and Mountain Parks group got down to monitor animals that dwell within the space utilizing motion-capture cameras — however they have been shocked to search out that of 580 pictures captured by one digicam, round 400 have been of the identical bear.
Whereas the cameras typically seize animals, together with coyotes, beavers and black bears out within the wild, officers mentioned most creatures do not sometimes discover the units and simply “stroll on by.” This specific bear, nonetheless, seemed to be captivated by the digicam.
“On this occasion, a bear took a particular curiosity in certainly one of our wildlife cameras and took the chance to seize tons of of ‘selfies,'” Phillip Yates, a spokesperson for Open Area and Mountain Parks, mentioned in a press release Thursday.
“These photos made us giggle, and we thought others would, too,” Yates mentioned.

The cameras are activated after they sense an animal stepping in entrance of them and the pictures are used to map wildlife areas and to “present us with a singular alternative to be taught extra about how native species use the panorama round us whereas minimizing our presence in delicate habitats,” Yates mentioned.
Whereas officers could not have anticipated photoshoots to be amongst these makes use of, Yates mentioned the pictures captured by the wildlife cameras can be used to assist advocate measures to guard essential pure areas.
Matteo Moschella contributed.