If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.

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bears are clever, not only they know how to do CPR, but also know how to protect their privacy by destroy the GoPro using water.

This video has remained up for an hour and, therefore, is officially Bear-Resistant! Congratulations on successfully thwarting the bears!

highly doubt anyone will ever see this, but i actually work here!! me and my coworkers have actually been waiting to see when this video would come out bc we also wanted to see the gopro video, also great to see all the hard work our bears do getting some recognition! for anyone wondering, the bear performing CPR on the trash can is Coram, and the bear who so kindly drowned the gopro is Bo. we were watching our bears for the rest of the day to see if any of them pulled the gopro out of the pond (they didn’t) …and yes, we did know it was likely it would be taken into the pond. that’s our bears’ favorite place to stash things.

I feel like Tom’s reaction to finding a bear in his tent would be ”That’s not ideal.”

I like how the bear with the GoPro at the end looks less like they're trying to eat it, and more like they've just taken up vlogging.

Watching a bear give CPR to a trash can was surprisingly delightful. Also, RIP Tom’s GoPro. (EDIT: Turns out it lived after all! See Tom’s follow up video.)

My uncle was the engineer and designer for the garbage can at 1:00 as well as the blue one later in the video. They are widely used all over western Canada in our national parks. I didn't realise the design made it all the way to Yellowstone too! He could be solely responsible for saving the lives of countless bears and possibly people.

The bears in one section of Yosemite learned to smash open canisters by rolling them off 2,000 foot cliffs. It's amazing how smart they are. Nothing is "bear proof"

That line about intelligence overlap is a classic and I would've been quite disappointed had you overlooked the opportunity to include it here

20 percent of americans: I can survive the bear test

I love how Tom stays so composed (dare I say British?😂) when the bear stole the Go-Pro: "Oh, no, that's not ideal." I would have used much stronger language 😂

When I was a little boy, My parents took me here after our family Yellowstone trip. This was a really cool place as they would allow all of the children that were there for the day to go into the enclosure (without bears) and hide the food/snacks for the bears to find. It was like a weird easter egg hunt where you were the one placing the food and watching a 600-800 pound bear find your specific piece of food that you placed.

As a hiker/camper who has needed to purchase bear-resistant containers, I really enjoy the fact that the industry tried to come up with fabricated certification tests for strength and whatnot, but they could never cover all of the possible bases so just resorted to “give the finished products to some actual bears for a while and see what happens” as the official “laboratory test”.

They give you free hugs, they know CPR, they even wash your GoPro! Such friendly creatures. 🐻

as someone from the UK the idea of wild bears seems like something out of fiction or ancient history. seeing a wild one in real life must be crazy

Having lived in the mountains for a decade and now about an hour from where this was filmed, on the other side of the park, I fully forgot that this is weird to most people. I used to sell those coolers to tourists entering the parks and have to explain all the different intricacies of how they would be allowed to use them. A Yeti, for example, must have 2 padlocks added in order to be bear resistant. A bear got into a car last summer in my town, ripped it to shreds for whatever yummy snack was hidden inside. Can't put the trash out the night before, has to be morning of pickup. All the cans in town are similar to the ones shown in this video and yes, bears are paying a lot more attention than most tourists.

Seeing as these bears are cpr certified I'd assume they are smarter than a decent amount of humans

Tom being surprised that they let him put a go-pro on the container and then watching why they were okay with it was the funniest thing I've seen today.

That's a brilliant solution to the problem of "problem" bears. Also, the amount of drool at 5:01 was clearly the signal that the bear had got the container open.