内容摘要：Patrons eat lunch below a mural depicting polar bears and other wildlife, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, at the Seaport Hotel in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Patrons eat lunch below a mural depicting polar bears and other wildlife, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, at the Seaport Hotel in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, right, Father Antonis and other faithful leave the chapel of Panagia Evangelistria, after participating in Divine Liturgy in Amorgos island, Greece, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, right, Father Antonis and other faithful leave the chapel of Panagia Evangelistria, after participating in Divine Liturgy in Amorgos island, Greece, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, cooks in the kitchen of the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, in Amorgos island, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, cooks in the kitchen of the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, in Amorgos island, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)From left, Constantin Papakonstantinou, an assistant residing at the monastery, Ioanna Kape, Head of the Amorgos Port Authority, and Christian Orthodox monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, as dinner is served at the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

From left, Constantin Papakonstantinou, an assistant residing at the monastery, Ioanna Kape, Head of the Amorgos Port Authority, and Christian Orthodox monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, as dinner is served at the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos pets a cat as he leaves the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, seen in the background, in Amorgos Island, Greece, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos pets a cat as he leaves the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, seen in the background, in Amorgos Island, Greece, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

-Cats stand outside the entrance of the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, in Amorgos island, Greece, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)“He said, ‘If you don’t bother them, then they won’t bother you’,” she recalled.

When a bear came near in later years, after her father had died, her mom was scared.“Everything was like pandemonium. Everybody was yelling, and all the kids had to come in and everybody had to go home. And then we stayed silent in the house for a long time until we knew for sure that bear was gone, ” Berg recalled.

For Van Nest, the provincial officer, the group he came upon that day was plenty safe from a bear about 300 yards (meters) away. He said the bear was “putting on a bit of a show” for the tourists.“This is a great situation to be in,” he said. “The tourists are a safe distance away and the bear’s doing his natural thing and not being harassed by anybody.”