Yesterday we decided to take a break and spend the mid day hiking up to get a trailcam I haven't been able to get to for about a year. Turned out it filmed until late July 2018 and got some interesting footage.
In one video, there is a pretty big bear carrying around a dead cub. On first glance I figured it was a boar carrying around lunch, but watched it again and noticed:
1) The cub is stiff, so it's been dead for a bit
2) It looks like is carrying it by the scruff of the neck, not the whole neck
3) I think it might be a sow? Big hips and acts pretty cautious, doing a lot of pausing and listening and I don't see any balls swaying around while it walks off... (though I haven't done a thorough pause and zoom junk-check yet)
I'll be posting it in up the next couple days once I get all the video together. Any preliminary guesses? Do sows carry their dead cubs around?
The thing about trailcams is sometimes they just show part of a story and leave you guessing