Hey, just NFYI.

This episode is all about an ecologist mission to protect wildlife, but as part of that,

there are some graphic descriptions of a dead animal she encountered in the wild.

Just a heads up.

Okay.

I'm the show.

When Dr. Ray Wingrant spotted the bear, it was lying in a stream.

Like a stream that was, you know, maybe three or four inches deep at its deepest.

So not a stream that any person or animal could drown in.

But it was like head down in a stream.

Ray's a wildlife ecologist.

And back in 2013, she was working for the Department of Wildlife in Nevada when she

and her mentor got a call about this bear.

It had been found dead face down in less than four inches of water.

I mean, that was eerie to begin with.

It was super weird.

And of course, we were coming with this expectation that it had been shot.

It is incredibly rare to find a dead bear in the wild to stumble upon one that had died

of natural causes is almost unheard of.

They're like going somewhere secret to die, like to their cave or like, what do we

don't, do we not know?

We don't know.

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