When a curious brown bear showed up outside the fence at Eagle Peaks
Farm in the Anchorage area of Alaska on Friday, the cows in a small yak
herd there defiantly surrounded the calves.
But not the lone bull, Stormy: he sprinted away and never looked back.
"It was really cool to watch the cows and how fierce they were," said
Angie Johnson, who along with her husband, Doug, owns the 25-acre farm.
"But the bull just ran the long ways down the field and then hopped over
the fence. The cows and the young kind of stood their ground against
the bear, even though the bear never got inside the field."
Immediately, one of Angie's sons started tracking Stormy, who has broken loose two other times, and earned the nickname Wimpy for his latest escape, and coaxed him back into the pen with the help of a cow. Ironically enough, when the family moved to the farm a couple years ago, they bought yaks with bears in mind, Johnson said.
"During our research on the internet, we knew there were a lot of brown
and black bears on Eagle River Road," she said. "We were under the
impression that yaks could defend themselves against bears. This one
little data point, at least we have seen our cows do marvelously."
Immediately, one of Angie's sons started tracking Stormy, who has broken loose two other times, and earned the nickname Wimpy for his latest escape, and coaxed him back into the pen with the help of a cow. Ironically enough, when the family moved to the farm a couple years ago, they bought yaks with bears in mind, Johnson said.
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