Bull yak sprinted away at sight of bear and just kept on running, leaving calves and cows behind

When a curious brown bear showed up outside the fence at Eagle Peaks Farm in the Anchorage area of Alaska on Friday, the cows in a small yak herd there defiantly surrounded the calves. But not the lone bull, Stormy: he sprinted away and never looked back.



"It was really cool to watch the cows and how fierce they were," said Angie Johnson, who along with her husband, Doug, owns the 25-acre farm. "But the bull just ran the long ways down the field and then hopped over the fence. The cows and the young kind of stood their ground against the bear, even though the bear never got inside the field."

Immediately, one of Angie's sons started tracking Stormy, who has broken loose two other times, and earned the nickname Wimpy for his latest escape, and coaxed him back into the pen with the help of a cow. Ironically enough, when the family moved to the farm a couple years ago, they bought yaks with bears in mind, Johnson said.


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"During our research on the internet, we knew there were a lot of brown and black bears on Eagle River Road," she said. "We were under the impression that yaks could defend themselves against bears. This one little data point, at least we have seen our cows do marvellously."