If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test. 

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bears are clever, not only they know how to do CPR, but also know how to protect their privacy by destroy the GoPro using water.

This video has remained up for an hour and, therefore, is officially Bear-Resistant! Congratulations on successfully thwarting the bears!

highly doubt anyone will ever see this, but i actually work here!! me and my coworkers have actually been waiting to see when this video would come out bc we also wanted to see the gopro video, also great to see all the hard work our bears do getting some recognition! for anyone wondering, the bear performing CPR on the trash can is Coram, and the bear who so kindly drowned the gopro is Bo. we were watching our bears for the rest of the day to see if any of them pulled the gopro out of the pond (they didn’t) …and yes, we did know it was likely it would be taken into the pond. that’s our bears’ favorite place to stash things.

I feel like Tom’s reaction to finding a bear in his tent would be ”That’s not ideal.”

I like how the bear with the GoPro at the end looks less like they're trying to eat it, and more like they've just taken up vlogging.

That line about intelligence overlap is a classic and I would've been quite disappointed had you overlooked the opportunity to include it here

The bears in one section of Yosemite learned to smash open canisters by rolling them off 2,000 foot cliffs. It's amazing how smart they are. Nothing is "bear proof"

I love how Tom stays so composed (dare I say British?😂) when the bear stole the Go-Pro: "Oh, no, that's not ideal." I would have used much stronger language 😂

Watching a bear give CPR to a trash can was surprisingly delightful. Also, RIP Tom’s GoPro. (EDIT: Turns out it lived after all! See Tom’s follow up video.)

Tom being surprised that they let him put a go-pro on the container and then watching why they were okay with it was the funniest thing I've seen today.

My uncle was the engineer and designer for the garbage can at 1:00 as well as the blue one later in the video. They are widely used all over western Canada in our national parks. I didn't realise the design made it all the way to Yellowstone too! He could be solely responsible for saving the lives of countless bears and possibly people.

When I was a little boy, My parents took me here after our family Yellowstone trip. This was a really cool place as they would allow all of the children that were there for the day to go into the enclosure (without bears) and hide the food/snacks for the bears to find. It was like a weird easter egg hunt where you were the one placing the food and watching a 600-800 pound bear find your specific piece of food that you placed.

They give you free hugs, they know CPR, they even wash your GoPro! Such friendly creatures. 🐻

As a hiker/camper who has needed to purchase bear-resistant containers, I really enjoy the fact that the industry tried to come up with fabricated certification tests for strength and whatnot, but they could never cover all of the possible bases so just resorted to “give the finished products to some actual bears for a while and see what happens” as the official “laboratory test”.

as someone from the UK the idea of wild bears seems like something out of fiction or ancient history. seeing a wild one in real life must be crazy

Having lived in the mountains for a decade and now about an hour from where this was filmed, on the other side of the park, I fully forgot that this is weird to most people. I used to sell those coolers to tourists entering the parks and have to explain all the different intricacies of how they would be allowed to use them. A Yeti, for example, must have 2 padlocks added in order to be bear resistant. A bear got into a car last summer in my town, ripped it to shreds for whatever yummy snack was hidden inside. Can't put the trash out the night before, has to be morning of pickup. All the cans in town are similar to the ones shown in this video and yes, bears are paying a lot more attention than most tourists.

I love how the ravens seem to know that hanging around the bears can get them a free meal. Imagine the combined problem-solving skills of a corvid and the raw physical power of a bear, they would make quite the team.

Seeing as these bears are cpr certified I'd assume they are smarter than a decent amount of humans

That's a brilliant solution to the problem of "problem" bears. Also, the amount of drool at 5:01 was clearly the signal that the bear had got the container open.

They are probably still doing it, but 30 years ago at the Yosemite guest services desk, where people check in to get their campsite, there used to be a corkboard full of visitors cars destroyed by bears who broke in to get food stored inside the cars. Their favorite was to climb on the roof and jump up and down a bit to get the windows to break/pop out, then they could get inside the car and grab the bag of food or cooler or whatever.

20 percent of americans: I can survive the bear test

The CPR method lmao These bears are insanely smart when it comes to food

"That's... not ideal." Fantastic response. Thank you, for helping to educate people about wildlife safety and respect. Living close to Banff, in the Canadian Rockies, I can't tell you how often we see tourists trying to get way too close to wild animals. Most of the time, the tourist has a harrowing tale to tell their friends but, too often, the interaction results in an animal having to be put down because humans have stepped over the line and proved your quote regarding the overlap of animal / human intelligence.

I love that the bear found something new and immediately started playing with it (once the food was gone). Shows just how inquisitive they are.

Tom repeating "That is a bear with a GoPro" in despair at the end is the best part of this video.

Impossible to compete in todays work force when even bears have years of product testing experience.

As someone who spends a great deal of time in bear country, thanks for this Tom. Getting people to respect wildlife and to learn to live with and share their habitat with them and to NOT put them at risk is incredibly important. If you're looking to do something after your hiatus, perhaps raising awareness about such things would be of interest.

3:04 - I died when he said the CPR method. Don't play dead, the bear will attempt to revive you.

I'll never understand how bears can be simultaneously so adorable and so terrifying

Bear-resistant? They should add the label "tourist-proof".

I really have to appreciate that the transcriber for the subtitles here spelled "picnic" as the very Yellowstone/Yogi-bear appropriate "pick-a-nick". Top-tier subtitles ❤

"That's not ideal" is the best understatement ever when it comes to bears. My brother used to live somewhere where they'd be snuffling around his bins but they were never quite motivated enough to tear them to bits, mainly because he used a separate thing for food waste. They're still incredible to see up close!

What I've learned watching Tom Scott: - A GoPro looking directly at multiple suns worth of light & heat will barely notice - A bear can destroy a GoPro Either bears can defeat the sun or we just discovered a cool new set of rock paper scissors

Seeing a bear performing CPR on a solid wheelie bin and making it buckle like that with no effort really drives home how heavy and strong they are.

I like how well cared for these bears are, Respect to the team operating

This seems topical for me, I’ve been really getting into backpacking lately so have done a lot of research on bear safety lately. The debate of how to store your food at night when food lockers aren’t available: do you hang it in a tree? Carry a heavy certified bear vault? Use a special Kevlar bag that the bear can chew on but not rip open? A combination of them? It’s cool to see the sort of place where these methods are actually tested.

Another RU-vidr would have titled this ‘I accidentally gave a bear a GoPro’ or ‘how a grizzly stole my GoPro’, but Tom always seems to respect the seriousness of his videos and the people in them.

the way i cackled at the bear playing with the gopro lmao, genuinely one of the funniest things i've seen in ages. also i love that the bears have a job now

"The CPR method" and "clean up on aisle four" great sense of humor! Love it.

Thanks for taking the time to show us a good place that respects the bears and in fact helps solve the issues instead of exacerbating them, that's the type of thing that makes you so special, Tom!

That bear moved on from unboxings to vlogging and so far its going well!

I know this video is about bears, but I say we should give those ravens some appreciation too Edit: Seems like the consensus in the replies is that they are ravens, not crows!

From a country that doesn’t have bears I’m shocked that their claws are that thick and long. 😮

Thank you for covering this Tom, I know your almost done and yet you're still knocking it out of the park with cool, fun, and educational concepts. I love this manner of protecting the bears and their wild nature, whilst also helping and educating humans.

The moral for me is there's a strong correlation between motivation and the utilization of intelligence, for both bears and humans.

That's a problem I'd never have considered without this video.

There's a grizzly bear sanctuary outside of Bozeman Montana that I went to once. They house bears that for various reasons can't be wild bears. Now, fun fact, a Grizzly is a type of brown bear just a really *big* type of brown bear. I didn't get to see this feet myself but the guide said that to demonstrate what a grizzly can do they used an earth mover to place a 4 ton bolder on top of their largest bear's favorite treats. The bear casually tipped the bolder with one arm and scooped the yummies from underneath with his other paw. The ranger said that if you want to know if a bear can get into something, ask yourself if a smart 7 year old kid that can bench press a truck could do it. If the answer is yes than the bear _can_ get in it.

One of my favorite security cam vids was the one where a brown bear finds something delicious inside of a wheeled dumpster outside of a pizzeria and wheels it out as takeout dinner.

That quote by the park ranger is so savage, yet so true “There is a considerable overlap between the brainpower of the most intelligent bears and the least intelligent tourists”

This is an ongoing battle. I live in an area bears frequent and the ways they’ve gotten into the garbage stuns me. I currently use an electric fence generator attached to chicken wire wrapped over the top of my bin. Seems to be working so far…

I love how from the bears' perspective eating human food is like eating one of Hades's pomegranates - you then get stuck in the human world for a season.

The overlapping intelligence quote is one of my all time favorites

Having lived in Lake Tahoe for a year I can attest to the skills of bears to get into many things considered bear-proof. Mostly the problem was with tourists not knowing how to be extra careful about the bears, as long-term residents are well aware and also have great affection for the bears.

I hope these bears are paid well

Your video's always are very good. The topics, the shooting and the representation. Thank you for uploading.

That was tremendously interesting and a delight to watch. Love that Tom has concern for the bears welfare too.

West Yellowstone is a tourist trappy western American town, but the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center was definitely worth the visit when we visited the National Park. They also have a sanctuary for injured birds of prey which was fascinating in of itself.

I remember that we got a dog toy that said tiger tested, the dog shredded it in a month. Must not have been tiger approved.

I’m glad you mentioned the quote. It’s one of my favorite quotes of all time. :)

It was really cool meeting you! I hope they were able to get that camera back and send it to you.

3:14 - That bear salivating in anticipation is as cute as it is terrifying. These bears are way more experienced at opening these things than random ones in the wild, so I imagine this is a pretty harsh test.

Let us not forget the sacrifice of Doug, the brave GoPro who gave his life for this video.

Thanks for keeping the videos coming Tom! 👍🏻

1:17 very subtle Yogi "pic-a-nic baskets" reference 😄🐻

About the brainpower overlap thing... It's already hard enough to convince many people to put their rubbish in a bin to start with, whereas the bear gets a food reward if they can break in. I think if you were to put a $1,000 reward inside a bin, there wouldn't be many tourists without the mental faculties to work out how to open it.

Bear takes a go pro for a walk into the water. Tom says "That's not ideal". The most British thing I have heard you say.

Thank you for spotlighting this establishment. Planning a trip to that area soon and just added this to the itinerary.

I live in an area with a lot of bears and tourists and that old adage is very true! Thanks for talking about the bears Tom!

I'm one of the keepers at GWDC! I'm so glad yall decided to come down and do a but on our bears!

As a medical student, I must applaud these bears' CPR technique - very nice and consistent!

If they train their cubs to do CPR, we are just a few generations away from _bear paramedics!_ 🎉

Another great and educational video! Great to see the amazing work going on to protect both tourists and bears. P.S. I loved the cheeky "pick-a-nick" Yogi Bear nod in the subtitles @1:16.

The 'CPR Method' is the cutest thing I've seen this week!

Can't deny its a great way to test if products meet the "bear minimum" requirements 😄

Great video! Bears are *very* intelligent! I remember seeing footage of a bear trying to get food from a waste-container (I can't remember the exact shape of it) but it literally "posted" one of its cubs into the entry-bit of the container (just as you would post a letter) and the cub grabbed the food and popped it out to the big bear waiting outside! Amazing!

3:15 imagine being unconscious and waking up to a *Bear giving you CPR 🐻*

The fact that the flight attendant had to tell everyone to not feed the bears is objectively so funny to me

"chest compressions. chest compressions. chest compressions" apparently also the bear mantra to getting food out of a trash can 🤣🤣🤣 Also, RIP Tom's Gopro. It was worth it though. Loved the close up footage of the live teddy bears.

This video was an absolute delight to watch. I hope the sanctuary might think around to streaming some more bear vs container testing; it’s a good watch!

This was a great video, thank you Tom!

Thank you to the subtitler who transcribed the pick-a-nick basket reference 🥰

I would have assumed something like this existed but I wouldn't think they used actual bears. This is a really interesting example of using what you've got.

This is honestly one of the best videos Tom has ever made, just delightful.

Finally! A place I've been to BEFORE Tom Scott made a video about it!

I went to Yellowstone once, and can't wait to go again, and the sheer number of individuals who CAN'T FOLLOW THE RULES is exceptionally high. There are signs in many languages, there are tour guides, there are visual aids, and still, people think wild animals are there for their entertainment. Thankfully, while I was there, no one was killed by a buffalo (bison) or by walking into the hot springs or anything else super easy to avoid but it still happens... it's annoying, honestly, how "dumb" people are. Not in an intellectual disability way, just in an ignorant, selfish, and lazy way. I cleaned up my trash, I avoided interacting with wildlife, I kept my bug sprays to myself... :/ I love big animals and seeing their intelligence and how, if given time and space, they could match toddlers and children in terms of communication and problem-solving. I've seen some dumb humans (I've worked in customer service and human resources for going on a decade) and most can't problem-solve for the life of them. I know some SMART people with PhDs and tenure and books that can't convert PDFs, that can't figure out how to effectively google something, that can't retain information and that can't save things for later. I'm fairly average intelligence-wise, I have terrible short-term memory, especially post-COVID, but like... some stuff doesn't have to be obvious if it's stated multiple times and there are reminders everywhere. Especially if it's life or death.

Many go-pros were harmed in the making of this film. Bears are completely fine, though.

05:23 Telepathic Bear: "Yes, I'm a bear with a GoPro. And I will end this one's career."

your videos are one of the best on youtube by far tom.

I hike quite often in black bear country. They're magnificent and beautiful creatures. Don't feed them, A fed bear is a dead bear. They're also bloody nuisances. Bleack bears virtually never attack humans, (the boars will charge, but they're bluffing). Still, getting your gear shredded and your food eaten when you're 30+ km from support can be nearly as bad. I carry a carbon fibre canister for food and rubbish. Once or twice, I've seen evidence that a critter has played with it, but the lore is that they do eventually learn that it's pointless to attack the carbon fibre ones. There are several brands of commercial bear canister that are NOT approved where I hike, because there was a genius bear sow who figured out how to open that type. (Incidentally, a human needs a screwdriver to accomplish the task.) Even though she was made into stew a few years back, she taught her cubs, and now there are bears all over the area that know how to open them. I used to be able to get away with hanging a bag from a tree on a branch too small to support a bear's weight, and with nothing accessible at ground level, so that I'd need to use a trekking pole to fish the line down in the morning. But the mama bears have learnt to send a cub up a tree to bite through the line and bring down the bear piñata.

5:34 - 'That's... not ideal.'

"That is a Bear with a GoPro!" has to be an all time Tom Scott qoute lmao

I watch the Katmai NP live bear cam everyday, those lil cubs stir so many emotions.

I remember a very similar challenge on one of the episodes of Fetch with Ruff Ruffman. The line about "Bear resistant, not bear proof" has always stuck with me.

"I got Tom Scott's GoPro! I love that guy"

i love everything about this video and now demand a full feature length documentary

The world needs more Tom Scotts to tell these stories ❤

Haha I gave National Park Ranger talks at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center there over 10 years ago! Loved that place! We had a partnership with them where we could give Park talks there.

The bear looked positively excited to test the GoPro in the water. And maybe get some decent underwater footage to share with the others... :D

Thanks Tom, that was brilliant, Cheers