Close encounters on a bear mountain

Tara national park, Serbia The extraordinary thing is not how comfortable local people are around bears but how they live in almost parallel worldsSitting in a forest hut for three hours watching a glade fill with shadows tests to the limits all that modern life has made of us, especially our capacities for patience, stillness, silence.Not that I expected the objects of our vigil to reciprocate. On the contrary, brown bears in this park can be 250kg, so I was assuming that they might give warnin