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There are a number of strategies wildlife officials can turn to when tasked with removing a bear from a place where it doesn’t belong. Those animals tend to be motivated by food, and that was the case with one that made its way up a tree in New Jersey before being captured with the help of some stale donuts.
As a regular contributor to the BroBible Bear Beat™, I have covered plenty of stories concerning bears that have managed to cause a bit of a stir after ending up in a place where their presence has the potential to cause issues.
In the past year alone, we’ve been treated to incidents involving one that invaded a grocery store in Japan, another that was chased out of a home in Canada by a feisty Pomeranian, and the months-long saga of the massive mammal that set up shop in a crawl space underneath a home in California.
That last bear was subjected to a wide variety of strategies while repeatedly resisting efforts to capture it (including the installation of a trap filled with food that captured a different bear) before it was ultimately coaxed out after being pelted with paintballs filled with vegetable oil.
Thankfully, another one that recently attracted some attention in New Jersey was a bit less stubborn when it came to taking advantage of a free meal.
Donuts and peanut butter were used to capture a bear that climbed up a tree in New Jersey
Elizabeth, New Jersey is a crowded city that’s home to close to 140,000 people who live in close proximity to New York City, and it’s not the kind of place where you’d typically expect to encounter a bear.
However, according to NJ.com, a black bear made an appearance on Court Street on Monday morning before making its way up a tree where it fell asleep around 40 feet above the ground.
That distance meant the responders who were called to the scene were unable to tranquilize it while it was still chilling the branches, so they opted to take a different route with a trap that was baited with”day-old donuts, peanut butter, apples, and some kind of caramel spray.”
That ended up doing the trick, as the animal fell for the ruse before being relocated to a more bear-friendly habitat.