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News Disney World's Magic Kingdom is experiencing widescale attraction closures this morning due to a bear
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Yes it is. The Florida Fish and Wildlife say sighting in the area are "common"
DisneyFanatic12
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I live next to Disney, and yes, their conservation land is filled with bears. You’ll see some at Fort Wilderness sometimes (hence the bear proof trash cans). There is a family of bears that likes to break into our school too…
Piebald
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People who don't live here (or all the noobs moving here) really don't get how much wildlife we have. Where I live in Winter Park which is by no means some open wilderness I've seen bears, deer, fox, raccoons, gators, snakes, otters, armadillos, possums, skunks, bats, etc. In fact someone on my street has a gopher tortoise living in their yard and no one can do anything about it (he's cool though he just walks on the sidewalk back and forth doing whatever tortoises do)
Friend said they got a new neighbor from out of state and immediately started leaving food out for bears and they called FWC on them. That bear was dead the second they began to feed it, sadly.
I'm curious what Disney will do (or really FWC) because they usually don't just tranq them out of a tree and safely move them. This could become a big issue at MK lol
Friend said they got a new neighbor from out of state and immediately started leaving food out for bears and they called FWC on them. That bear was dead the second they began to feed it, sadly.
I'm curious what Disney will do (or really FWC) because they usually don't just tranq them out of a tree and safely move them. This could become a big issue at MK lol
We had a gopher tortoise that would follow my sister and I home after getting off of school bus. And it was like a half mile walk where we were in the boonies. It was one of the coolest things.
"The bear was spotted Monday in a tree near Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Frontierland of Magic Kingdom, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
FWC biologists believe the bear was likely moving through the area looking for food, since this time of year bears normally pack on fat reserves for the winter.
FWC says usually the best practice is to give the bear space and time to move along on their own. However, FWC staff are working on capturing and relocating the bear, since it is in the midst of a theme park full of people."
www.clickorlando.com
FWC biologists believe the bear was likely moving through the area looking for food, since this time of year bears normally pack on fat reserves for the winter.
FWC says usually the best practice is to give the bear space and time to move along on their own. However, FWC staff are working on capturing and relocating the bear, since it is in the midst of a theme park full of people."
Bear at Disney’s Magic Kingdom captured, Florida officials say
A Disney vacation is over for a bear that was in a tree Monday morning at a Walt Disney World park.
www.clickorlando.com
DisneyFanatic12
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It is interesting the noise didn’t deter the bear… must’ve found a path in from the conservation land that was quiet and it just never got spooked…"The bear was spotted Monday in a tree near Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Frontierland of Magic Kingdom, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
FWC biologists believe the bear was likely moving through the area looking for food, since this time of year bears normally pack on fat reserves for the winter.
FWC says usually the best practice is to give the bear space and time to move along on their own. However, FWC staff are working on capturing and relocating the bear, since it is in the midst of a theme park full of people."
Bear at Disney’s Magic Kingdom captured, Florida officials say
A Disney vacation is over for a bear that was in a tree Monday morning at a Walt Disney World park.
tissandtully
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All the Florida transplants just now finding out that Florida has bears. Maybe that will scare them away.
DisneyFanatic12
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Legally, yes, the capacity would drop. But on a random day in September, they’re no where near capacity so it doesn’t pose an issue.
tissandtully
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It is not very hard to get to that area, plenty of UrbEx YouTubers have done it and been trespassed!
They get accustomed to it is part of the problem. Animals losing fear of humans.
DisneyFanatic12
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We had a neighbor move in that thought the bear somehow travelled all the way down from the Tennessee area! We had to explain to them that bears live in Florida too
More than half the park closed though, including buildings for dining, merch etc.
Sirwalterraleigh
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Florida is still rather undeveloped…
And bears are notorious for not following traffic lights/obeying private fence ownership
