Burns whether geyser bear's paw?

Valley of Geysers and the caldera Uzon is located in the Kronotsky Reserve in Kamchatka.
Every day, tourists visit these places and get burned, and only our Russian people, foreigners are more attentive and responsible.
Bears also stalk the hot springs exposed legs, because they can not read a sign reading Caution!
Let's find out if they get burned.



 
Experienced animals are able to use volcanic heat for warmth in cold weather. In April, May and even in early June in the Valley is not uncommon snowstorm. In those days, the bears fall on the earth warmed. At the local old-timers - Temnolapki and oligarchs - have cherished maturation on the steep slopes above the most warmed-sections, for example, on the stained glass windows, where they wait out bad weather in the updrafts of warm air and steam.



Bears are also adapted to use volcanic heat. For them, the Valley of Geysers - a gigantic volcanic heated greenhouse. In spring, when the Kamchatka still covered with snow, animals gather in a warm oasis of greenery to eat first, rapidly vegetating on the heated ground.



Some days in the Valley can come to two or three dozen bears. Such a dense cluster of animals unique even for Kamchatka and can be compared only with the concentration of bears in the South Kamchatka reserve on the shores of Lake Kuril on the south of the peninsula, where there is the biggest in Eurasia spawning sockeye.



The beast is watching a geyser eruption Avery:



The beast is watching a geyser eruption Avery:



I must say that over millions of years of evolution, animals not only learned to live on volcanoes, but also to use them warmly for their own benefit. For example, Kamchatka wagtail construct nests on the warm ground and less time brooding - volcanic soil works as an incubator! Chicks in such "warm" nests grow faster and begin to fly earlier, increasing their chances of survival.



Experienced animals move through the Valley of confidence. In the hottest areas they are built for tourists grazing paths. Griffins thermal springs they cross stepping on rocks sticking out of the hot water:



It's funny to see how the newcomers, especially young animals, with a view of exploring the Valley beginners tourists, who were left without an experienced guide. Pervosti they are afraid of eruptions of geysers and run from them, they fired legs in hot springs and boiling mud, but eventually learn carefully before trying the ground or water, and only then comes full paw:



Bear-foot segoletochek burns hot key in the caldera of Uzon. Everything happened so quickly that I did not have time to react at the right time with the shooting. The kid started yelling, and mother, did not immediately understood what was happening, ran first in my direction, but quickly realized returned to power in earnest and barked at him ... then I have long been a weakness in the knees from fright:



This poor guy get burned forelimb hot acid mud, appointed himself the right treatment: a few hours spent in the river Geyser. Fresh water is not only cool quickly burn and wash it from chemicals:



Authentic deaths of bears in hot springs or geysers Valley caldera Uzon is not known. But people were dying.



Source: loveopium.ru