Best Friends With A Bear

BEAR trainer Doug Seus is a bear trainer, and thinks nothing of play-wrestling with a grizzly bear. For the last four decades, Doug and wife Lynne have shared their ranch in the the Heber Valley, Utah, with their four bears: Bart the Bear 1, who died of cancer in 2000, brother and sister team Bart 2 and Honey Bump, and Tank.

The bears’ have worked alongside Hollywood stars including Brad Pitt, Jennifer Anniston and Eddie Murphy, while Bart 2 recently starred in the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. The bears are also ambassadors for Doug and Lynne’s charity, Vital Ground, which helps to protect key landscapes used by grizzly bears and other wide-ranging wildlife.