{"id":363793,"date":"2025-08-22T05:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363793\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:01:18","slug":"can-you-spot-yellowstone-grizzly-bear-leading-cubs-across-the-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363793\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you spot Yellowstone grizzly bear leading cubs across the landscape?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Yellowstone National Park, a distant grizzly bear sighting can be as exciting as an up-close roadside view because it requires a keen eye and the animals are in more of a natural setting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Can you spot the momma grizzly bear and her three cubs in the image I captured during my visit in May 2024? (Image below; answer at bottom.)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Can you spot the grizzly bear and three cubs?\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e2dc584d85661f8c5d8376ea004254a9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Can you spot the grizzly bear and three cubs?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bears had been grazing in Lamar Valley near the highway. They created a significant &#8220;bear jam&#8221; before they crossed toward the northern foothills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cubs, born during the hibernation season, were enjoying their first spring. The tiny bruins were curious and playful, but did not stray far from mom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/spot-moose-yellowstone-ridge-175622780.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:RELATED: Can you spot the &#039;moose&#039; on the Yellowstone ridge?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED: Can you spot the &#8216;moose&#8217; on the Yellowstone ridge?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was smooth traveling up the slope until the bears had to quickly navigate around a bison herd, with newborn calves, that stood its ground.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Grizzly bear family on the move.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ebc65a2b03caa89d4550bc7682ba0be4.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Grizzly bear family on the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bears continued up the slope, becoming smaller and more difficult to track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They were too far for me to capture a detailed image at this point. But I\u2019ve included cropped versions of other images from the same sighting.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Yellowstone grizzly bears ascending foothills.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0aae12714a7a8ed986592470bfac01aa.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yellowstone grizzly bears ascending foothills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bears eventually vanished from view and I returned to my vehicle, wondering if this sighting could be topped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bears in the top image, used for the quiz, are circled below.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Grizzly bears circled.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f512e92b89ea848f69fed3e67ba93fd7.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Grizzly bears circled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2013<strong>Editor&#8217;s note<\/strong>: The accompanying images were first published in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/08\/21\/can-you-spot-yellowstone-grizzly-bear-leading-cubs-across-landscape-photos\/85751858007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Can you spot Yellowstone grizzly bear leading cubs across landscape?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Can you spot Yellowstone grizzly bear leading cubs across landscape?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Yellowstone National Park, a distant grizzly bear sighting can be as exciting as an up-close roadside view&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[44517,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-363793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-grizzly-bear","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115070663771911517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}