These animals are very intelligent.

They're the most intelligent, four-legged mammal that walks in North America.

They're intelligent rivals out of the Great Apes.

They have the ability to reason and extremely good memories.

So that's why they're so good at finding varied food sources,

you know, whether it be acorns, beech nuts, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, strawberries,

and what time are you to find them.

Episode 320, Mike McIntosh is here to teach you everything you need to know about adventuring with bears.

You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180 Tech.

We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation

you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. Now

here's your host, Kurt Linville.

Hi friends. welcome again to the Adventure Sports podcast.

Thank you so much for listening in today, and I have been looking forward to this show for a long time, and this is the reason.

On our show, quite often, the subject of large wild animals come up and usually when that happens it's about bears and i think that there are so many misconceptions and kind of unnecessary

fears as well as just a general lack of knowledge about bear behavior and what bears are all

really about how dangerous bears may or

may not be. And I think that some people allow that to keep them out of the woods for fear of

having to interact with such a big, powerful mammal that has kind of a misguided reputation.

So we brought in the expert today on bears, and I am really excited

to talk to Mike McIntosh. Mike is in Central Ontario, and he runs an organization called Bear with

Us Sanctuary Rehabilitation Center for Bears, and last year they rehabilitated and released 52 bears back into the

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