{"id":10940,"date":"2021-06-16T09:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:46","slug":"naturalist-michael-runtz-on-recent-bears-in-the-burbs-and-what-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/naturalist-michael-runtz-on-recent-bears-in-the-burbs-and-what-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturalist Michael Runtz on Recent Bears in the &#8216;Burbs and What You Should Know!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Naturalist Michael Runtz on Recent Bears in the &#8216;Burbs and What You Should Know!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Michael Runtz spends a lot of time in Algonquin Park, where you would expect to see a bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The naturalist, author, and Carleton University professor spends less time in the suburbs where a bear visited, napped in a tree, and had a Barrhaven (or Bear-haven!) neighbourhood fixated this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have been exploring the park for 100 years,\u201d jokes a youthful Runtz. \u201cI have seen a lot of bears and have never felt threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.ctvnews.ca\/naturalist-michael-runtz-on-recent-bears-in-the-burbs-and-what-you-should-know-1.5471535\">video and more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Runtz spends a lot of time in Algonquin Park, where you would expect to see a bear. The naturalist, author, and Carleton University professor spends less time in the suburbs where a bear visited, napped in a tree, and had a Barrhaven (or Bear-haven!) neighbourhood fixated this week. \u201cI have been exploring the park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10943,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions\/10943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}