How Female Bears Show Dominance | Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet

This is absolutely incredible. I've got a mother and cubs walking right into another mother and cubs feeding domain. I just look at that experienced mother, she's completely on edge right now. She's not happy about this. Interaction here is great. On the darker furred sow appears to be the mother that I saw earlier. Crossing a pass between two mothers can be a very dangerous situation for both of them. They don't want to be injured. They don't want their cubs injured. But they also want to protect their cubs at the same time. See there's the old sow at this point seemingly showing some dominance. She's got an upright broad stance. She's establishing her dominance completely. She's strongly communicating to the other one, just keep your distance. This is how they communicate. This is such a clear example of how dominant the old sow is. Wow. It's the subtleties that matter. You don't have to see big aggressive moves or growls or baring of teeth or anything like that. It can be very simple and very subtle movement. And sitting here watching these two sows with their cubs get so close. Now that the younger sow has, in an animal sense, shown her respect, the dominant female can relax and go back to concerning herself with preparations for hibernating.