When a huge brown bear was quietly making use of a big tree to reach every bit of that prickly itch he couldn’t scratch himself, a photographer’s camera trap was sneakingly recording it all.
The early morning footage was captured by a trail cam, situated near a camera trap, which was originally set up to gain footage of Siberian tigers. But it instead got this brilliant candid footage of a 2.5-meter-tall (8.2-foot) brown bear looking for relief from a clearly very annoying itch.
Sascha Fonseca, 45, a program manager from Dubai, shot this footage while in the far east of Russia in April, during a camera trap project to photograph Siberian tigers….