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<\/p>\nIt was another close encounter between a human and a bear in a Colorado mountain town this week. It seems the bear was just a little curious as to what a man was reading while relaxing in Aspen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CBS Colorado YouReporter Karen Preiss caught the bear on video as it wandered through Aspen on Sept. 29. There were several people around, but the bear decided to take a closer look and get closer to Andy Barrow, who was visiting from New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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CBS Colorado YouReporter Karen Preiss caught a bear on video sniffing Andy Barrow who was reading a book in Aspen on Sept. 29.<\/p>\n
Karen Preiss<\/p>\n
Barrow said he didn’t really have a plan since it all happened so quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I was thinking of, like, the T-Rex in Jurassic Park. By the time I was thinking that, the bear was already pretty close, so I said, ‘I guess I will stay as still as possible and just look at the book,’ and the bear came over, gave me a sniff, and moved on,” said Barrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bear sighting didn’t seem to faze any of the other people nearby as it continued on its way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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CBS Colorado YouReporter Karen Preiss caught a bear on video in Aspen on Sept. 29.<\/p>\n
Karen Preiss<\/p>\n
According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, there have been more than 11,000 human-bear encounters this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, bears are entering hyperphagia, where they bulk up for winter, and the lack of their usual food<\/a> sources is pushing them into neighborhoods in search of food<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was another close encounter between a human and a bear in a Colorado mountain town this week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-867373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}