Bear 71: the life of a grizzly bear, an NFB documentary

Found an interesting article in Maclean's this week about a NFB documentary called Bear 71 that uses trail camera footage spread across an interactive map of Banff National Park to track the life of a tagged grizzly bear and her cubs. You can follow Bear 71 to various favourite locations and also click on other trail cameras to watch footage of elk, foxes, a cougar, deer, ravens etc, and if you put your webcam on you can even keep track of yourself. I didn't have my webcam on but there were two other people visiting the site who did have theirs on and they appeared to be as into the site as I was. So make sure you have your mouse handy (or use direction keys). I was slow to get going on the interacting bit, spent the first few minutes listening to the narration of Bear 71's story expecting pop-ups, then realized I should be busy clicking on various cameras and marked sites while listening. Once I got the hang of it, I was mesmerized. The documentary is 20 minutes long but I stayed longer to view the marked sites I'd missed.

So when you have a little bit of time to sit and watch, I recommend you give this a go. Just click on the site below, get your mouse ready and enjoy:

http://bear71.nfb.ca/#/bear71

And for those of you who don't read comments, here's one from Jen Moss with a little more info and a way you can be more involved with Bear 71:

Thanks for your thoughtful summary Susan. And if anyone is interested - they can actually take part in the Titter 'goings on' at Sundance around the bear 71 launch by searching twitter for #bear71.