Hungry bears a problem in Fort McMurray: ‘They’re not eating people, they’re after the rotten pizza in your freezer’ | Edmonton Journal
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“They’re just gluttons, really, they’re not savage beasts eating people; they’re after the rotten pizza in your freezer,” Lee Foote, a conservation biology professor at the University of Alberta, said Thursday. “They’re not after your children. You just don’t want to get in between them and that pizza.”
The evacuated city, rife with garbage and food left to rot in bins and freezers, will attract plenty of the furry scavengers Foote likes to think of as “large raccoons.”
Alberta has about 40,000 bears, and the area between Fort McMurray and Cold Lake is some of their prime habitat.
