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Watch Bears Chase Tourists Who Got Too Close in Yellowstone National Park

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Tourists in Yellowstone National Park got a little too close to the wildlife this week, and one mother just couldn’t bear it.

A watchful black bear sow sent the curious onlookers running after they crowded her three cubs in a section of the park in Montana. “Keep going! Go! Go!” Yellowstone Park Ranger John Kerr is heard yelling as the tourists scatter in a video.

“These tourists were absolutely in danger,” Bob Gibson, Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Communication & Education Program Manager, told NBC News. “Black bears are usually shy of people. But you put them with their cubs…

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