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[pct-l] RE: BearVault Problems



The clear housing is not a problem; once a bear learns it cannot get into the
canister after several attempts it no longer tries.  This is basic bear
behavior which we have also seen during the bear testing process.

Jamie

Quoting John Coyle <jcoyle@sanjuan.edu>:

> I have been reading some of the recent BearVault posts, and I hope this
> hasn't been mentioned before, but  could part of the problem be that the
> BearVaults are clear?  A bear that may be "smarter than the average bear,"
> will see the food inside the container and might be willing to make an extra
> effort to get to it, passing up the opaque containers in the process.  After
> all,  bears are very intelligent creatures.  It must drive them crazy to be
> able to see the food and not be able to get to it.  I remember when I was a
> kid and used stare at the candy in the glass case at the drugstore hoping
> the clerk would take pity on me--so near and yet so far. I must not have
> been a very cute kid, because I didn't get any candy that way!  
> 
> I considered this effect when I bought my own BV200 a while back, right
> before they came out with the newer models, luck of the Irish I guess.  I
> wonder if the BearVault people have considered making an opaque container
> out of that Lexan material?
> 
> 
> John Coyle
> 
> 
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