Brown Bear Gets Down for a Trail Cam

The National Park Service (NPS) shared some funny trail-cam footage of a brown bear scratching its back against a tree. Except, in this case, the bear doesn’t so much scratch its back as much as it scratches its backside. In fact, most of the video is just a bear moving its hips to a silent beat. NPS sets the video to some music, making it look like the bear is getting down to the song “Pump up the Jam.”

“After a good meal, who wouldn’t want a good jam, stretch, and scratch?” NPS wrote in the video caption. “Bears and other mammals in Glacier Bay often use ‘rub trees’ to spread their scent and mark their territory, but it sure looks like a nice way to scratch that itch you juuust can’t reach.”

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an NPS site in southeast Alaska. NPS says it covers 3.3 million acres of rugged mountains, dynamic glaciers, temperate rainforest, wild coastlines, and deep sheltered fjords. Apparently, there are some solid “rub trees” there, too.

NPS says scientists use trail cameras “to non-invasively monitor animals in Glacier Bay, leaving the wildlife undisturbed and providing valuable info for biologists.” Occasionally, you also get a show.

Watch a brown bear pump up the jam and get down to the beat here:

The National Park Service (NPS) shared some funny trail-cam footage of a brown bear scratching its back against a tree. Except, in this case, the bear doesn’t so much scratch its back as much as it scratches its backside. In fact, most of the video is just a bear moving its hips to a silent beat. NPS sets the video to some music, making it look like the bear is getting down to the song “Pump up the Jam.”

“After a good meal, who wouldn’t want a good jam, stretch, and scratch?” NPS wrote in the video caption. “Bears and other mammals in Glacier Bay often use ‘rub trees’ to spread their scent and mark their territory, but it sure looks like a nice way to scratch that itch you juuust can’t reach.”

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an NPS site in southeast Alaska. NPS says it covers 3.3 million acres of rugged mountains, dynamic glaciers, temperate rainforest, wild coastlines, and deep sheltered fjords. Apparently, there are some solid “rub trees” there, too.

NPS says scientists use trail cameras “to non-invasively monitor animals in Glacier Bay, leaving the wildlife undisturbed and providing valuable info for biologists.” Occasionally, you also get a show.

Watch a brown bear pump up the jam and get down to the beat here: