FROM The Telegraph
America's grizzly bears growing fat and lazy
Grizzly bears in America's western states are becoming increasingly fat and lazy as a result of increased contact with humans, according to conservation experts
A population boom among the bears has pushed them out of the Rocky Mountains and into the path of humans, where they have found plentiful food without the need for hunting.
Jamie Jonkel, a bear expert at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, said that the grizzlys had learned gluttony and laziness from their human neighbours.
He told the Guardian that the bears had "started living the good life", eating corn and vegetables from fields and quickly getting "fatter and fatter".
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America's grizzly bears growing fat and lazy
Grizzly bears in America's western states are becoming increasingly fat and lazy as a result of increased contact with humans, according to conservation experts
A population boom among the bears has pushed them out of the Rocky Mountains and into the path of humans, where they have found plentiful food without the need for hunting.
Jamie Jonkel, a bear expert at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, said that the grizzlys had learned gluttony and laziness from their human neighbours.
He told the Guardian that the bears had "started living the good life", eating corn and vegetables from fields and quickly getting "fatter and fatter".
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