While in Yellowstone I wanted to see bears. I am afraid of bears. They are big and have massive teeth and jaws and love to attack women and children, mauling them until they are dead or dying. They love the taste of human blood and troll areas frequented by humans in order to catch them unaware and pounce on them. That said, I wanted to see them anyway, and was assured that Yellowstone has many bears. Tales of bears abounded in the park. Our waitress at dinner one night told us of the bears she had danced with briefly the night before in a large open area just next to the hotel. In spite of the way bears were obviously overrunning the entire national park, I didn't see any. They were avoiding me, or something. Perhaps they smelled my fear and lost interest in me. Maybe I am too tall for them. Whatever was going on, everyone around me saw bears and I saw none. Until, that is, we were driving south toward Old Faithful from Mammoth Hot Springs, and came to a cluster of cars on the side of the road. Tip: When in Yellowstone, cars stop and cluster on the side of the road whenever some interesting wildlife can be seen. People love to gawk. Thus, if you see several cars stopped along the side of the road, stop and get out, looking to see what the others see. Don't be disappointed if you don't see it at first, keep looking. It might be just a weasel, but there is bound to be something there. Once, on the way north from the Canyon area, we stopped the car at a turnout for no reason, got out and looked at the woods. Within minutes, we had a cluster of 10 or 15 cars stopped, people gawking. We then got into our car and drove off, enjoying the wonderful clear day. But I digress. The cluster of cars we came too had people gawking across a meadow toward a slope on the other side. I smelled bear, and this seemed like a good place for it. Bears can run at up to 90 mph, but as far away as the slope was, it would take at least 30 seconds for them to traverse. I was confident I could seek shelter in the car before they could reach me. I got out of the car, zoomed in to the full 200mm focal length and took some photos. You can see one of the bears (there were two) in this photo. I don't know what bears do when not munching on helpless humans, but these were doing it.