Un homme meilleur ami d'un ours grizzly - ZAPPING SAUVAGE
Transcript
00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 (speaking in foreign language)
00:07 (speaking in foreign language)
00:11 (upbeat music)
00:13 (speaking in foreign language)
00:20 - Am I good now?
00:31 Am I okay?
00:32 - Yeah.
00:32 (speaking in foreign language)
00:36 - This is how he sees the world,
00:38 by sniffing the wind.
00:40 (speaking in foreign language)
00:44 - I'm kind of taking all my energy
00:46 to get out of my pool.
00:48 (laughing)
00:51 The grizzly bear is an animal
00:53 that his claws are taught to fear.
00:55 This thing is smaller than one of us, probably.
00:59 - That capability is real.
01:00 It exists in him.
01:02 And if I take it,
01:03 I think about it all the time.
01:05 It can happen.
01:06 I gotta keep it on my toes,
01:07 and respect it,
01:09 and hope it doesn't happen.
01:11 He can move this rock.
01:11 It's a huge thing.
01:13 You know, it is one of those things
01:14 that forces humility in a bear.
01:16 He doesn't even know what he's doing.
01:19 And there's been times he's turned
01:20 around and he's trying to hug me,
01:21 so I was like, "Oh, all right."
01:23 He's got his arms around his neck.
01:25 - Yeah.
01:26 - And he got these snake knives on the end of his neck.
01:28 When he bats you on the back,
01:30 you can break bones.
01:33 He really seems very calm.
01:35 His ears are kind of forward-facing,
01:37 kind of steady.
01:38 He's just kind of moving slowly and slowly.
01:41 You know, if he gets up, he's gonna make a lot of noise,
01:43 and he's gonna start to blow really hard.
01:45 His body will get really stiff.
01:47 His ears are gonna pivot forward.
01:49 If he's angry, and he's not nervous,
01:51 his ears are gonna sit back,
01:52 and he just kind of grunts,
01:54 and he's gonna let you know.
01:56 - Yeah.
01:57 - Most animals will give you a warning
01:59 before they go out in the wild.
02:01 If you go out in the wild,
02:02 you know, if you see a bear,
02:03 his first reaction is to get scared.
02:05 He looks at you and says, "What are you gonna do?"
02:07 And you go, "Aah!"
02:09 Like almost everyone will do.
02:10 - It's worse.
02:13 If I can get so close to Brutus,
02:16 it's because he's always lived with Casey.
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02:21 He was born in captivity 13 years ago
02:23 in a overpopulated reserve
02:25 that didn't have room for another grizzly.
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02:30 Casey is a naturalist,
02:31 and he was used to wild animals.
02:35 He decided to save him.
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02:41 - You know, you don't really ever plan
02:43 to adopt a grizzly.
02:45 He was such a special bear,
02:47 right off the bat,
02:48 just his personality,
02:49 I could see this,
02:50 I don't think you've ever seen before.
02:51 And I knew that I had to do something
02:53 to make sure that he wouldn't be put to sleep.
02:56 But fortunately, you know,
02:58 a super bear met a cool dude,
03:01 and it worked out.
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03:07 Adopting Brutus changed their lives for both of them.
03:10 For 13 years, Casey and his grizzly
03:12 have been multiplying TV sets
03:14 in hopes of changing the perception
03:16 that men have of bears.
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03:22 - You know, one misconception
03:23 is that we don't want to give the impression
03:25 that this is okay.
03:27 We don't give a hug to a grizzly.
03:29 But you should also not be afraid of it.
03:31 The truth is somewhere in the middle.
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03:43 Because he was born in captivity,
03:45 Brutus will never be able to return to the wild.
03:48 11 years after their meeting,
03:50 Casey used the money they had earned together
03:52 to offer his bear an exclusive reserve.
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03:57 Now that Brutus is an adult,
03:59 Casey can't play with him anymore.
04:01 Which doesn't stop them from being close.
04:04 But the more he detaches himself from the bear,
04:06 the more his old friend becomes unpredictable.
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04:12 When Brutus was a little boy,
04:14 Casey could really get interactive with him.
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04:20 But that time had long since passed.
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04:25 Brutus is about 500 pounds.
04:28 That is a very, very huge animal.
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04:34 Even a simple gesture of affection towards Casey
04:37 could hurt him severely,
04:39 maybe even kill him.
04:42 So what I'm seeing is not so much
04:44 the usual love and affection kind of relationship.
04:49 It's more of a personal knowledge of each other's body language,
04:53 a mutual trust and respect.
04:58 And that in itself is such a special and strong connection.
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05:06 Is it sad for you that you no longer
05:08 talk to him as you did when he was little?
05:11 I miss the old days.
05:13 We had fun.
05:15 I miss him not needing me as much anymore.
05:19 Things have changed.
05:21 I find myself a lot more careful about how I behave.
05:24 I'm a lot more cautious out of respect for him.
05:30 When people, when they look at me and Brutus,
05:32 they think one of two things.
05:34 They think that guy is going to get killed one of these days.
05:37 Yes.
05:38 Or that I'm going to get killed one day.
05:40 Or that I'm a hero,
05:41 a hero that people want to be like, particularly children.
05:45 So now it's up to me to choose which one I want to be.
05:49 Right.
05:50 And I want to be a hero.
05:53 And part of that is not taking risks.
05:56 Because if something did happen, and it could,
06:00 he would be the bad guy.
06:02 And everything that I'm trying to teach people about the Grizzlies,
06:05 you know, about the nice side, the loving side of them,
06:09 that would all be erased instantly.
06:13 And I can't let that happen.
06:15 I can't.
06:16 (upbeat music)
06:18 (bells chime)