The video posted on social media showed a large grizzly sow and two cubs hopefully inspecting trashcans at a residence in Island Park. During the daylight hours, you would never suspect that the grizzly family was there as this was in the middle of a neighborhood, not at some remote cabin far off the beaten path. The crazy thing is that this is not an uncommon occurrence. Grizzly bears and black bears, even occasionally wolves and mountain lions, are routinely captured wandering our streets and backyards at night.

Animals that utilize the cover of darkness (night) to go about their business are said to be nocturnal. This can be facultative or obligatory, big words that mean that the animal chooses to be active at night or is adapted to a nocturnal lifestyle that requires it to be active a

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