00:02A camera was left standing in front of these mountains when no one else could stay and wait.
00:07The regional autonomous corporation of Cundinamarca recovered the material this year and among the
00:12The files showed the Osandino; the image confirms he was there, but what it doesn't say on its own is...
00:20where it came from, how many bears roam this area, or where it went afterwards to get closer to those
00:26questions, we set out following their trails through the mountains of Manta
00:39The Andean bear roams forests and highlands to feed; much of what it eats consists of plants.
00:45And as the fruit moves, it disperses seeds and helps to renew the forest; that's why its presence matters.
00:51far beyond blanket photography, this movement also occurs near places where they pass
00:57Domestic animals and the bear up there, I see it's whether it's done any harm or not, I don't know, but yes, well
01:04one of them
01:05I was the one who had to take the cattle out, but I never saw him. It did say he had eaten animals, or so the animal said.
01:10I was going to
01:11I sprinkled salt on it and they ran away, they weren't waiting for me, so we decided to take it out and look around.
01:16The fact that a bear appears on camera does not prove that it attacked a bovine; each case requires a different investigation.
01:21Technical review, given the concern of the ranchers about the bear's whereabouts, as they are the ones who have seen it.
01:29Their concern is that, because they say it's carnivorous, it attacks young animals.
01:35The livestock and there has been damage to several properties, although I haven't seen it myself, but
01:43well
01:44They say that it is the bear that causes that damage