Grizzly Bear Attack - The Bear vs. the BFFs

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Tooth & Claw

True Crime, Science, Comedy, Nature

4.9 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Ann Quarterman and Christine Bialkowski were hiking in Glacier National Park when they experienced an unusual but still violent encounter with a momma bear and her two cubs. Wes talks about what we can learn from their experience, especially as it comes to bear spray. Watch here: https://youtu.be/DoG4LRUxnMc ~~ To advertise on the show, contact us! ~~ Tooth & Claw is brought to you by QCODE. Support the show and get access to an extensive library of exclusive episodes like this by supporting the show on Patreon or joining the Grizzly Club on Apple Podcasts. For the latest updates on the show and all things wildlife, follow us at toothandclawpod.com and social: Instagram: @ToothandClawPodcast Twitter: @ToothandClawPod Wes: @GrizKid Jeff: @jefe_larson Mike: @mikey3ds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to Tooth and Cloud podcast. You have our bear biologist, West Larson, which is convenient for us because we're also doing bear
0:21.9	month.
0:22.3	Yep, it's bear month.
0:24.0	It'd be a lot harder to do that without a bear biologist.
0:27.1	Sure.
0:28.0	We'd still manage that.
0:29.5	To be clear, he's actually a human biologist.
0:32.7	He just specializes in bears.
0:34.4	That is a good thing to clear up.
0:36.0	You made that distinction.
0:37.7	I was Wes's field tech.
0:40.3	I worked with black bears with Wes.
0:42.2	So you could call me probably like a bear specialist.
0:46.2	Maybe we should call you the tech guy.
0:49.0	If you're the field tech.
0:51.6	And then we have our tech guy, Mike.
0:54.9	There he is.
0:56.1	Mike, you committed a sin right before this episode started recording.
1:01.9	Do you know what it was?
1:03.0	I was going 85 through a school zone.
1:05.9	No, it's that you started singing a creed song and now it's stuck in my head.
1:11.5	Is that a sin?
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